Linking Policy to Programming

Linking Policy to Programming (LPP) is a regional project seeking to improve sexual and reproductive health outcomes for young key populations in five Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries – Angola, Madagascar, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe. The project aims to accomplish this through strengthening the HIV and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) related rights of young key populations in law, policy and strategy.

The project is a part of global follow up efforts to implement the recommendations of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law, which called for reforms to ensure that laws and policies are grounded in evidence and human rights, and programmes that reduce stigma and discrimination.

UNDP implements the project, in partnership with the African Men for Sexual Health and Rights (AMSHeR), and the Health Economics and HV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD) of the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Funding for the project is provided by a five-year grant (2016 to 2020) from the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs through its Leave No One Behind initiative.

Young key populations are the focus of the LPP project, specifically young sex workers, young men who have sex with men, young people who use drugs, young lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex and young people in prisons. National level activities are implemented in five focus countries: Angola, Madagascar, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

To learn more, read our Project Brief: English | French | Portuguese

Linking Policy to Programming publications

• PNUD (2020). Directrizes de Envolvimento para a Sociedade Civil em Angola.
• PNUD (2020). Moçambique: Análise do Envolvimento da Sociedade Civil na Política e Legislação da Saúde.
• UNDP (2020). Angola legal environment assessment on HIV/AIDS and the law: Recommendations. [A3, A4]
• UNDP (2020). Angola legal environment assessment on HIV/AIDS and the law: Criminalization of exposure, disclosure and transmission of HIV, recommendations. [A3, A4]
• UNDP (2020). Angola legal environment assessment on HIV/AIDS and the law: Key populations, recommendations. [A3, A4]
• UNDP (2020). Angola legal environment assessment on HIV/AIDS and the Law: Women, recommendations. [A3, A4]
• UNDP (2020). Removing legal and policy barriers for young key populations in the Zimbabwean HIV response: Policy brief.
• UNDP (2020). Removing legal and policy barriers for young key populations in the Zambia HIV response: Policy brief. 
• UNDP (2020). Madagascar - Suppression des obstacles juridiques pour les jeunes populations clés dans la riposte malgache au VIH: Note d’orientation.
• UNDP, AMSHeR, ASSOFRAMA (2019). Madagascar civil society engagement scan in health policy and law. 
• UNDP, AMSHeR, ASSOFRAMA (2020). Analyse d’opportunité d’implication (Engagement scan) de la société civile dans les politiques et les lois relatives à la santé à Madagascar.
• UNDP, TransBantu (2019). Zambia civil society engagement scan in health policy and law.
• UNDP, GALZ (2019). Zimbabwe civil society engagement scan in health policy and law.
• HEARD (2020). Situational analysis on young key populations’ sexual and reproductive health and rights in Angola.
• HEARD (2020). Situational analysis on young key populations’ sexual and reproductive health and rights in Madagascar.
• HEARD (2020). Situational analysis on young key populations’ sexual and reproductive health and rights in Mozambique.
• HEARD (2020). Situational analysis on young key populations’ sexual and reproductive health and rights in Zambia.
• HEARD (2020). Situational analysis on young key populations’ sexual and reproductive health and rights in Zimbabwe.
• UNDP, GALZ (2019). Zimbabwe civil society engagement scan in health policy and law.
• HEARD (2019). Selling sex in a precarious economy: Increasing vulnerabilities for young women who sell sex in Zimbabwe.
• HEARD (2019). Applying the social determinants of health lens to the situation of young key populations in Zambia: what can it tell us about what we could do.
• UNDP, National AIDS Council of Zimbabwe (2019). Zimbabwe: Legal Environment Assessment for HIV, TB, Sexual and Reproductive Health & Rights.
• UNDP, National HIV/AIDS/STI/TB Council of Zambia (2019). Zambia: Legal Environment Assessment for HIV, TB and Sexual and Reproductive Health & Rights.
• SADC (2018). Regional Strategy for HIV Prevention, Treatment and Care and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights among Key Populations. 
• SADC, UNDP, UNAIDS, UNFPA (2018). Regional Strategy for HIV Prevention, Treatment and Care and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights among Key Populations - Brief. 

Project overview

Status: Active
Project start date: October 2016
Estimated end date: December 2020
Grant value: $8 million
Geographic coverage: Angola, Madagascar, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Focus area: HIV, Health and Development; Governance and Peacebuilding
Contact: Senelisiwe Ntshangase, senelisiwe.ntshangase@undp.org
Partners: AMSHeR, HEARD