Transcript Making AIDS funding work for women and girls

‘Making AIDS funding work for women and girls’
Exploring ways in which NGOs can be empowered to access national
and global funds for gender-responsive AIDS programmes
OSI Seminar,
19th February 2008, Cape Town, South Africa
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Outline of this presentation
 Rationale
 Ongoing international and German initiatives
 Method and set-up of this project
 Results initial assessment
 Planned CD measures
 Lessons learnt and open questions to date
 Relevance to the OSI initiative
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Rationale
Although women and girls are known to
 to be more vulnerable to HIV infection
 to be more affected by the negative social and economic
consequences of the epidemic and
 to have gender-specific prevention, treatment and careneeds
this is not yet reflected in GFATM-grants. (cf. AIDSPAN
study)
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Current initiatives addressing this imbalance
 Global Coalition on Women and AIDS (GCWA): awareness
raising on impact of AIDS on women and supporting interventions at
national level to reduce women’s vulnerability to HIV
 CEDPA: Training workshops building leadership, advocacy and
technical expertise of women working with HIV/AIDS and small
grants programme through GCWA
 AIDSPAN study: “How well do GFATM supported programs are
delivering results for women and girls?” (in KN, MW, ZB, UG and
TZ)
 OSISA: CD and technical support to coalitions of women’s rights
and HIV/AIDS organisations to develop a proposal to CCM that
address specific vulnerabilities of women and girls to HIV
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German Gender/HIV initiatives
 2nd GFATM Replenishment Meeting: Germany proposes
initiative
a) to enhance gender awareness and competence at the level of the
GFATM and
b) to generate more demand for funding of gender-responsive AIDS
programmes at country level
 2007/08: Pilot project with IPPF to explore CD-measures
needed by NGOs to get their gender-responsive
programmes funded
 For 2009: Gender Project for b)
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Method of the ‘Exploratory Project’
German government (through BACKUP Initiative and supraregional AIDS project) provides
 Start-up funding for gender-responsive projects submitted
by IPPF member associations
 Funding for CD measures to facilitate access to national
(and global) AIDS funding
 Technical support (through local consultants) for these CD
measures
 Ongoing monitoring (action research) of the CD process
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Project in Malawi: ‘Saving young sex workers:
SRH services and economic options for livelihood’
 Objective: contribute to the reduction of HIV/AIDS
prevalence through increased use of SRH services and
livelihood skills for sex workers
Trainings in vocational, business and management
skills, provision of start up funds to start a business
Provision of SRH services and information
Giving alternatives to sex work
 Duration of the project: 12 months
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Project in Uganda: ‘Enhancing women’s access to
economic resources & HIV/AIDS services in Kabarole District’
 Purpose: To mainstream HIV/AIDS and SRH related
services into women’s economic empowerment activities
Trainings in vocational, business and management
skills, provision of start up funds to start a business
Provision of SRH and HIV/AIDS services and
information through outreaches
 Duration of the project: 12 months
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Main results initial assessment mission
Gender-responsiveness AIDS programmes and institutions
 Limited funding available for implementation of national gender
policies and programmes; challenges linked to understaffing at
MWCD
 MoH and NAC focus on biomedical prevention and response to
HIV/AIDS (e.g PMTCT, ANC…)
 Representation in CCM concentrates on PLWH. SRH and
women’s organisations are not represented
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Planned capacity development measures
 Training workshops (‘sandwich approach’) on
 HIV/Gender links and gender-responsive programming
 Advocacy for gender-responsive programming
 Networking, proposal writing for GFATM
 Ongoing coaching, review of goals with local consultant
 Promoting exchange with other NGOs by inviting them to
training workshops (in part. with OSISA coalition)
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Lessons learnt and questions to date
 NGOs are stretched to (and beyond) capacity as they need
to run numerous projects at once
 How can we support CD without absorbing staff time that is
indispensable for other ongoing projects?
 ‘Gender inequality’ is only one of many problems NGOs
must address - when others are more urgent, it fades into
the background...
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Accelerating Action
A technical support guide to develop capacity and to
benefit from global health financing
Technical support in relation to specific topic
Challenges and technical support available
Linking global financing processes and
health system strengthening
Promoting BACKUP as innovative mode of delivery
for technical support
www.gtz.de/backup-initiative
[email protected]
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Relevance to OSI
 Areas of linkages:
Collaboration with OSI
What kind of support would CSOs would need to get
more gender-responsive AIDS programmes funded?
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Thank You !
Zikomo!
Mwebale Nnyo!
[email protected]
[email protected]
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