Transcript The Joint Learning Initiative on Children and HIV/AIDS (JLICA): An Overview April 2007 Presented on behalf of the JLICA IATT on Children and HIV/AIDS Washington DC Dr.

The Joint Learning Initiative
on Children and HIV/AIDS
(JLICA):
An Overview
April 2007
Presented on behalf of the JLICA
IATT on Children and HIV/AIDS
Washington DC
Dr. Angela M. Wakhweya
JLICA Goals
• Protect and fulfill the
rights of children
affected by HIV/AIDS
by mobilizing the
evidence base and
producing actionable
recommendations for
policy and practice.
JLICA Goals
• Assemble, analyse
and interpret
evidence to address
implementation
gaps to ensure
universal access to
health, education ad
social protection
Objectives
• Expand space for new thinking
• Mobilize and generate evidence
• Facilitate linkages
• Advance action
Universal access
• JLICA works toward universal access to
essential services for children, families
and communities affected by HIV/AIDS.
• For JLICA, ‘universal access’ means that
children affected by HIV/AIDS receive
effective services in:
– Health care
– Education
– Social protection
It’s more than “OVC”
• All children in highprevalence settings
affected
• Paradigm shift:
– From AIDS to
poverty
– From individual traits
to social
determinants
• Comprehensive
welfare strategies
needed
What JLICA will deliver
• Evidence for advocacy (in order to
convince)
• Evidence for policy and program design (in
order to guide)
• Evidence for implementation (in order to
demonstrate)
• Evidence for costs (in order to decide)
Work Streams
• Research and analysis to consolidate the
evidence base and formulate
recommendations;
• Partnership-building to open space for
innovation and problem-solving oriented to
stakeholders’ real needs;
• Communication and advocacy to
accelerate action;
• Effective project management to support
the previous three functions
Partnership constituencies
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Multilateral organizations
Foundations and donor agencies
National policymakers
International NGOs
National and local NGOs, FBOs and CBOs
Program managers and implementers
Actors from outside HIV/AIDS work
Within international, regional and national
frameworks
What makes JLICA different?
• Implementation
focus
• Interdisciplinary
• Networked with
major actors, but
independent
• Time-limited,
results-oriented
Structure and areas of work
RESEARCH & ANALYSIS
COMMUNICATIONS, ADVOCACY &
MANAGEMENT
Steering Committee:
Initiative Co-Chairs,
Founders, LG co-chairs
partners
Learning Group 1
Strengthening Families
Learning Group 2
Supporting Communities
SECRETARIAT
FXB Center for Health & Human Rights
Learning Group 3
Access to services and
Protecting human rights
Learning Group 4
Improving Socio-economic
Policies
LG 1: Strengthening families
• Evidence on family and household
changes in response to HIV/AIDS
• Strengths and weaknesses of existing
programs for affected families
• Best ways to combine government and
non-governmental family services
• Review work on economic strengthening
for HIV/AIDS-affected families – including
cash transfers
LG 2: Community and civil society
• Best practice studies on optimizing the work of
faith-based organizations
• Supporting children and youth to be ‘part of the
solution’
• Community-based management information
systems
• Identifying best practices for external support
(state, donors) to community-based groups
LG 3: Access to services and
human rights
• Practitioner Learning Collaborative for
PMTCT scale-up in Rwanda (with GoR)
– Implementation of wrap-around services, with
health care as entry point
– Linking PMTCT+ and Early Child
Development interventions
• Implementation case studies on family
and community services (with LGs 1 and 2)
LG 4: Social and economic policies
• Assess the determinants of adverse
outcomes in children affected by HIV/AIDS
through analysis of large data sets
• Compile national-level data on social and
economic policies and programs,
undertake 3 in-depth country case studies
• Cost the response to affected children
• Investigate the determinants of effective
policymaking
Unifying themes
• Using social welfare programs to protect
children affected by HIV/AIDS
• HIV prevention among children and youth
• Integrating HIV/AIDS policies into national
health & development frameworks
• Tackling implementation gaps
– Special focus on Early Child Development
• Coordinating with key stakeholders to
examine what is working
JLICA milestones
• Oct 2006: launch
• Fall 2007: “Fast-track” research results and
publications
• Sept 2007: JLICA hosts International
Symposium on action for children affected by
HIV/AIDS, Harvard University
• Aug 2008: CCABA seminar and JLICA
scientific session: XVII International Aids
Conference, Mexico City
• Dec 2008: JLICA final report
Relationship with the IATT
• Participation across IATT Working Groups
and JLICA Learning Groups
• Joint support and engagement in specific
groups e.g. social protection, community
• Potential MOU between the IATT and the
JLICA to be discussed at the Implementers
Meeting in Rwanda
The Joint Learning Initiative
on Children and HIV/AIDS
Visit our web-site:
www.jlica.org
Thank you for your
attention.