Governance of HIV/AIDS Responses

Effective Governance

The effective governance of HIV/AIDS strategies is contingent on large-scale multi-sectoral planning, which provides the necessary frameworks for a coordinated response of a diverse range of partners. UNDP supports harmonization and alignment of UN system and donor assistance to national AIDS authorities, and provides implementation support for the “three ones” principles for Coordination of national AIDS responses. UNDP builds capacity for the development and implementation of HIV/AIDS strategies, and through the Resident Coordinator system, supports the integration of HIV/AIDS into UN Country Team common country programming processes, to increase effectiveness of programmes and minimize transactions costs.

Key areas of UNDP support include:

  • Governance support to National AIDS Strategies
  • Southern Africa Capacity Initiative


Publications

Taking Action Against HIV
This Handbook for parliamentarians, was launched at the Global Parliamentary meeting on AIDS. The Handbook serves as both a call to action for parliamentary leadership and a reference book that legislators and their staff may consult for information and guidance on specific issues in relation to the AIDS response.  For a copy of the Handbook, download the pdf here.

 

Governance of AIDS responses: Issues and Outlook
A quarter century into the epidemic, there is ample evidence that strong governance institutions and broad-based participation in the development process improve the effectiveness of AIDS responses. This new issues paper explores the close linkages between AIDS, development and governance, but above all identifies a number of critical governance requirements for an effective AIDS response. Download the brochure (pdf).

 

Supporting National HIV/AIDS Responses: An Implementation Approach
This handbook is primarily intended for use by National HIV/AIDS coordination and management bodies responsible for strategic planning and the management of national HIV/AIDS responses. It introduces the innovative transformative methodologies aimed at promoting a deeper understanding of the complexity of the epidemic, in order to ignite hope, foster transformation and produce results. Effective strategic planning is also emphasized, as a means of ensuring that adequate support is given, so as to give rise to the seamless planning, implementation, evaluation and assesment of national responses. Download the pdf.

 

National Development Planning and Implementation: Strategy Note and Guide
This Strategy Note is part of a series of tools and guides to support partner organizations and countries that wish to revisit existing or develop new national HIV/AIDS responses. The key objective is to promote a more coherent implementation of HIV/AIDS responses across a range of programmatic and operational areas that include national development plans, poverty reduction strategies, UN Country Team action and decentralized planning processes. A Response Implementation Framework (RIF) is proposed for this purpose. Download the pdf.

 

District planning and Implementation: Strategy Note and Guide
This Strategy Note and Guide designed as a tool to assist district or sub-national officials in planning and implementing development programmes that include HIV/AIDS. The approach aims at increasing the involvement of local people in decision making and shows how outcomes of decisions in a plan can be implemented with accountability. Finally, it reinforces monitoring and review processes as a key component of the planning and implementation process at the district/sub-national level. Download the pdf.

 

"Three Ones" Key Principles - Coordination of National Responses to HIV/AIDS: Guiding principles for national authorities and their partners
Partners engaged in the global, national and local responses to AIDS have agreed on the "Three Ones" - one national AIDS framework, one national AIDS authority and one system for monitoring and evaluation—as guiding principles for improving the country-level response. This report describes how far the partners have moved from principle to practice and points to the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.  Download the pdf.