Progress
& Lessons Learned
Jonathan Brown
UNGASS HLM, New York, June 2008
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Why Strategies? Why Action Plans?
National HIV/AIDS Strategies are needed to:
• Attract and sustain funding
• Align external support to national priorities
• Implement the principle of One agreed HIV/AIDS action
framework
• Promote Mainstreaming
Annual Action Plans are needed to:
• Improve implementation, especially in sectors
• Move from project to program support serving as the
foundation for program funding (from GFATM and
other donors)
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How ASAP started
• Created in 2005 by the GTT to help countries
respond more strategically to the epidemic -reflected by more evidence-based, prioritized
and costed strategies and operational plans
• Division of labor – major partners: ILO,
UNICEF, UNDP, UNESCO, UNAIDS
Secretariat, WHO, World Bank
• Selection of the World Bank as lead agency
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Early Technical Guidance
• Initial Business Plan developed at Stakeholder
Meeting in January 2006 in Pattaya by the ASAP
Technical Advisory Group
• Suggested ASAP operate on the following
principles:
–Demand driven
–Flexible
–Timely
–Consultative
–Coordinated
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ASAP support structures –
the Importance of Partnerships
• Governance Structures
– UNAIDS ASAP Advisory Group
– ASAP Technical Advisory Group
– ASAP Training Advisory Committee (chaired
by UNDP)
• UNAIDS Secretariat and Cosponsors (HQs,
regional and country offices)
• UNAIDS Technical Support Facilities
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What does ASAP do?
• ASAP services include:
– Technical support
– Peer reviews
– Capacity building
– Development of tools
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How does ASAP Work?
• Requests come from NAC, RST, UCC or WB
• For technical support, ASAP convenes partners
by teleconference to:
– Ensure ownership of the request by the NAC and
Joint UN Team on HIV/AIDS
– Share experience of all partners
– Clarify tasks and technical/financing roles that other
partners can play
– Agree on gaps that ASAP can fill
• ASAP provides CVs, often in collaboration with
the TSF
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Global Demand for Support
Regional breakdown of
requests for peer reviews
or technical support:
20 from SSA
11 from Latin American
5 from the Caribbean
4 from MENA
4 from Central/Eastern
Europe
3 from South Asia
2 from East Asia
Latin America
SubSaharan
Africa
East Asia
South Asia
Central/Eastern
Europe
MENA
Caribbean
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Areas of demand for support
• ASAP has provided support in four
areas:
1. Peer Reviews (23)
2. Targeted (35) and Comprehensive Support
(13)
3. New Tools and Instruments
4. Capacity Building
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Peer Review Experience
• ASAP has reviewed 23 draft strategies/operational
plans
• These plans have reflected the same areas in need
of strengthening as those reviewed earlier, including:
– Evidence base
– Linkage between the epidemic and the strategy
– Results focus
– Attention to gender and marginalized groups
– Operational and human resource planning
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Tools & Practice Notes
• In response to country needs, ASAP has
produced the following:
– Self-Assessment Tool and Guidelines
– Roadmap
– Strategies Practice Note
– Results Checklist for Monitoring and Evaluation
– Draft Costing Practice Note and Budgeting/
Costing Spreadsheet
– Draft Action Plan Practice Note (in progress)
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Strengthening Capacity
• INSP of Mexico, with the WB Institute and seven
regional institutions, is delivering workshops in
every region by the end of 2008
– For policymakers and program managers in 50 countries
– Increasing focus on costing and operational planning
• Training conducted/planned for:
– the Caribbean (June 2007)
– Anglophone and Francophone Africa (Nov 2007)
– MENA and Europe in 2008
• Training for TSF consultants and UNAIDS partners on
– Costing (April 2008)
– M&E (May 2008)
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Moving forward…
• Following an external ASAP evaluation in mid-2007,
we produced a 2008-09 Business Plan of $13.6m
to allow us to:
– Respond to growing demand for all services
– Broaden capacity building in terms of both content
and clientel
– Give increased attention to quality assurance
– Collaborate more closely with UNAIDS cosponsors
– Increasingly assist countries to prepare costed
action plans (based on solid strategies) in
preparation for possible program funding from the
Global Fund
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Thank you for your
suggestions on how to improve
ASAP’s performance
www.worldbank.org/asap
[email protected]
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