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Sector Network MeetingHealth and Social Protection

HIV AIDS Working Group

Johannesburg - South Africa8 March 2012

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Where We Came From

2003 : First joint network meeting in Ghana: initiated by country directors and health experts working in partner countries

From 2004 - 2009: Parallel Anglophone and Francophone networks

From 2008 onwards: Not just GTZ but GDC (incl. KfW, DED and InWEnt)

From 2008 onwards: GDC MS HIV website and platform June 2010: All GTZ Focal Points and DED Mainstreaming

Advisors met and requested that head offices define one agreed German approach to HIV mainstreaming

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Where We Came From ...Cont‘d

June 2010: Africa Department requested the reduction of network of Focal Points of countries with a national HIV prevalence of at least 4% (based on survey of all FP and country teams regarding HIV risks and impacts on their programmes)

Medium and Lower Prevalence Countries (MLPC) formed their own working group

December 2010: BMZ and all four implementing organisations endorse the guidance note on an agreed German approach to HIV mainstreaming

June 2011: First meeting of MLPC working group in Bujumbura

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Where We Are

March 2012: First meeting of HPC MS HIV Network

Main Topics: Implementation of evidence-based HIV

mainstreaming according to endorsed approach (guidance note)

HIV mainstreaming after GIZ merger

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i) Adress challenges concerning the implementation of the joint GDC approach to HIV mainstreaming

ii) Establish HIV mainstreaming network as self sustaining, member-led working group

Main Goals of the HIV Network Meeting

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Forward Looking Where we want to go

HIV MS network members to take more responsibility for sustaining the initiative as technical support through Sector Initiative PROFILE ends by December 2012

HIV MS network will continue to operate as independent group alongside the GIZ Sector network Health & Social protection, working on issues that pertain to GDC’s HIV mainstreaming only

Members will join the HV working group for topics of shared interest between the two

Today: Let us clarify joint interests and areas of work

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Main results of the HIV Network Meeting

Best practices on common MS approaches at country level shared by KfW - Zambia

Shared results of the inventories and identified main challenges and ways of dealing with them

Based on the above, we formulated topics for working groups

Monitoring and Evaluation WPP for Internal MS Risk Identification

Established working plans for the working groups Stronger commitment from network members to take up

more repsonsibilites of the network function Elected a new Speaker

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Common Topics Suggested for HIV Working Group

Behaviour change communication intervention Why: All of us implement such activities in

the WPP and give advice for it in external mainstreaming

Linkages between HIV/SRHR/Gender Why: Better understand the subject in view

of giving advice

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Thank You