Critical Enablers for HIV, TB & Malaria Responses

UNDP & Global Fund informal session 30th meeting of the Global Fund Board

Dr Mandeep Dhaliwal

United Nations Development ProgrammeDirector: HIV, Health & Development Practice

Global Fund : Investing for Impact

The Global Fund strategy Investing for Impact, 2012-2016; recognizes the importance of a strategic investment approach has a focus on high-impact interventions that are supported by

attention to critical enablers includes a strong focus on human rights, gender and key populations recognizes the major contribution to realizing the right to health by

enabling a global expansion of prevention, treatment, care and support for the three diseases.

Enabling legal and policy environments, including the promotion and protection of human rights and gender equality, are essential to effective, efficient and sustainable national responses to HIV, TB and malaria

Enabling Environments: the New Funding Model

The New Funding Model presents several opportunities to address enabling legal and policy environments, including human rights, gender and key populations throughout the course of the grant cycle

National strategic plans for the three diseases should include strategies to strengthen enabling legal and policy environments and promote rights and gender sensitive approaches , including an appropriate focus on key populations.

Country dialogue should include the full range of relevant stakeholders, including civil society groups representing people affected by the three diseases, key populations, women's organizations and other vulnerable groups.

The country dialogue is a key opportunity to identify and advocate for the inclusion of high impact interventions to strengthen the enabling legal and policy environment as well as rights-based and gender sensitive responses to the three diseases in the concept note.

UNDP – Global Fund Partnership

1. Supporting implementation as interim PR of Global Fund grants in countries facing exceptional development challenges / emergencies

2. Developing the capacities of national entities to take over the management of Global Fund as soon as circumstances permit

3. Strengthen policy & programming quality of Global Fund related work at both country and global levels

UNDP – Global Fund Partnership

In line with international human rights and health commitments, UNDP works to support countries in creating enabling legal and policy environments for effective and sustainable HIV, TB and malaria responses – this includes strengthening capacity to review and reform legislation, promote gender equality, human rights and access to justice, and address stigma and discrimination, including for key populations.

UNDP’s online Capacity Development Toolkit for National Entities Implementing Global Fund Grants (EN, RU)http://www.undp-globalfund-capacitydevelopment.org/

Capacity Development Toolkit

http://www.undp-globalfund-capacitydevelopment.org/

Enabling legal & policy environments capacity development module:

1. Enabling legal & policy environment: definitions & key resources provides a broad definition of enabling legal and policy environment,

critical enablers for effective responses to the three diseases and examples of relevant programmatic activities

2. Key human rights frameworks for HIV, TB and malaria provides a broad overview of and links to major international

frameworks on the right to health and specific information on human rights and law in the context of each of the three diseases

Capacity Development Toolkit

3. Opportunities to strengthen enabling environments through the Global Fund grant cycle provides an overview of entry points for strengthening enabling legal

and policy environments and rights-based responses in the context of the Global Fund's New Funding Mechanism, the Global Fund Strategy 2012-2016

4. Programming tools and resources for strengthening enabling legal and policy environments for the three diseases provides links to resources, tools, guidelines and case studies* that

support human rights programming activities related to enabling legal and policy environments, including law reform, law enforcement, human rights-based approaches to key populations and gender equality and women's empowerment.

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