Transcript UNDP’s Response to HIV/AIDS

UNDP’s Response to HIV/AIDS
Moscow COP Meeting
5-7 June 2007
HIV/AIDS:
An Unprecedented Development Crisis
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One of the biggest obstacles to MDGs
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MDG 6 - Combating HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases
HIV threatens achievement of all MDGs
Strikes at the heart of development
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Reverses human development gains
Kills people in their most productive years
Spreads and deepens poverty
Erodes government capacity to provide services
Deepens gender inequalities
Erodes social cohesion
40 Million
living with HIV/AIDS
North America
1.4 million
Caribbean
250,000
Latin America
1.7 million
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Eastern Europe &
Central Asia
W & C Europe
East Asia
1.7 million
740,000
750,000
N Africa &
S & SE Asia
Middle East
7.8 million
460,000
Sub-Saharan
Africa
24.7 million
4.3 million infected in 2006
2.9 million AIDS deaths in 2006
28 million AIDS deaths since the start of the epidemic
Oceania
81,000
The UNAIDS Partnership
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A joint and cosponsored programme
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Brings together expertise and efforts of 10 UN
agencies to lead, strengthen and support expanded
response to HIV/AIDS
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Builds on complementary roles and contributions
of UNAIDS Cosponsors and Secretariat
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UNDP leads UNAIDS response in HIV,
development, governance, human rights and
gender
Global Task Team (GTT)
on Improving AIDS Coordination
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GTT formed to develop recommendations for
strengthening architecture of global AIDS response
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GTT recommended:
 Clearer division of labour among UNAIDS cosponsors
 Integration of AIDS into PRSPs (UNDP in partnership
with World Bank and UNAIDS Secretariat)
 UN System - Global Fund Global Implementation
Support Team (GIST)
 Joint UN teams on AIDS at country-level
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GTT recommendations endorsed by UNDP Executive
Board and supported in World Summit outcome
document in September 2005
UNAIDS Division of Labour
Cosponsor and Secretariat lead roles
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UNDP - HIV/AIDS and development, governance, mainstreaming,
human rights and gender
World Bank - national and sector plans, financial management, capacity
and infrastructure development
WHO - diagnosis and treatment, prevention in healthcare settings,
blood safety, and counselling and testing
ILO - workplace issues and private sector mobilization
UNFPA - condoms and prevention for young people outside schools
UNICEF - care and support, orphans and vulnerable children, and
prevention of mother to child transmission (with WHO)
UNESCO - education institutions
UNODC - injecting drug users and prisons
WFP - nutrition support
UNHCR - displaced populations
UNAIDS Secretariat - information, knowledge sharing, advocacy, and
monitoring and evaluation
UNDP’s HIV/AIDS Response
service lines
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HIV/AIDS and Human Development
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Governance of the HIV/AIDS Response
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HIV/AIDS, Human Rights and Gender
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Service lines are aligned to
UNAIDS division of labour
service lines
HIV/AIDS and Human Development
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Supporting integration of AIDS priorities into PRSPs and
MDG-based national development plans and
strengthening implementation modalities (inc.
partnership WB and UNAIDS Secretariat);
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Promoting multi-sector AIDS responses, sector
programmes and decentralized plans;
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Supporting development of enabling trade, health and
intellectual property legislation for sustainable access to
low-cost AIDS medicines;
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Supporting development of enabling macroeconomic
frameworks for sustained financing of AIDS responses.
service lines
Governance of HIV/AIDS Response
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Strengthening governance capacity of national AIDS
coordinating authorities and mechanisms;
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Strengthening capacity of CSOs, organizations of people
living with HIV and women to participate in design,
implementation and evaluation of AIDS responses;
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Strategies to strengthen human resource capacity and
address impact of AIDS on functioning of public sector;
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Supporting harmonization and alignment of UN system
and donor assistance to national AIDS programmes;
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Supporting establishment and functioning of Joint UN
Teams on AIDS at country-level with unified support
plans (with UNDG and the UNAIDS Secretariat).
service lines
HIV/AIDS, Human Rights and Gender
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Promoting rights of people affected by HIV and
addressing HIV-related stigma and discrimination;
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Strengthening capacity to review, adopt and enforce
legislation that upholds HIV-related human rights;
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Addressing gender-related vulnerability and heightened
impact of AIDS on women and girls;
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Promoting role of men and boys in championing gender
equality for a strengthened AIDS response;
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Supporting planning and implementation of HIV
programming for populations of humanitarian concern.
priority area: ‘making the money work’
Global Fund Partnership
UNDP provides capacity development support to countries
(particularly those with relatively weak administrative capacities)
to manage, increase delivery and track results of Global Fund
financed programmes:
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As Principal Recipient (PR) in exceptional circumstances - PR
of Last Resort - UNDP manages grants when requested by
Global Fund and Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM)
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When not PR, UNDP strengthens capacity of governments,
PRs, sub-recipients and CCMs to manage and implement
Global Fund-financed projects
Responding to HIV/AIDS
UNDP 2008-2011 Strategic Plan
UNDP Programmes
 HIV/AIDS key result area (linked to poverty focus area)
with 4 outcomes aligned to UNAIDS Division of Labour
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AIDS responses integrated into poverty reduction strategies, MDG-based
national development plans, and macroeconomic processes.
Strengthened national capacity for inclusive governance and
coordination of AIDS responses, and increased participation of civil
society entities and people living with HIV.
Policies and programmes implemented to protect human rights of people
affected by AIDS, mitigate gender-related vulnerability, and address
impact of AIDS on women and girls.
Accelerated implementation of AIDS funds and programmes financed
through multilateral funding initiatives, including GFATM.
UN System Coordination
 RC accountability for establishment and effective functioning of Joint
UN Teams on AIDS with Joint Programmes of Support