Development and the HIV Epidemic: A forward-looking evaluation of the approach of the UNDP HIV and Development Programme

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Evaluation team members would like to thank the many people who participated in the evaluation process: providing advice and suggestions, attending planning and interpretation workshops, engaging in interactive discussions, and sharing their personal experiences with the evaluation team and with each other.

The following people deserve special thanks for the crucial roles they played:

HIV and Development Programme staff, UNDP, New York, for their ongoing interest in assisting with the evaluation process and for being willing to spend time exploring the nature of their work and answering difficult questions about what it all means.

Sky Frautschi and Michelle Sylvain, for ongoing assistance with logistics including travel and liaison with in-country participants and evaluation team members; Fiona Percy, for technical and logistic support throughout the evaluation report writing process; and Darlene Chavis, for assistance with information systems management and report publication.

Margaret Mutambo, the UNDP Country Professional Officer (HIV) in Zambia, for help with planning the evaluation process, logistics in Zambia, and liaison between the evaluation team and participants in Zambia.

Thelma Cruz, the UNDP Country Professional Officer (HIV) in the Philippines, for help with logistics in the Philippines and liaison between the evaluation team and participants in the Philippines; and Teresita (Bai) Bagasao, for help with evaluation planning for the Philippines.

Gary Engelberg, for help with logistics in Senegal, liaison between the evaluation team and participants in Senegal, including language translation, and enthusiastic participation in the final interpretive workshop in New York.

Captain Doctor Ian Campbell and Alison Rader, for writing Case Study 2; and Catherine Hankins, for writing Case Study 1.

Delys Sargeant, for assistance with ideas for understanding the approach.