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High Level Regional Consultation for Policy Makers to Enhance Leadership in Planning the National HIV & AIDS Response S
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Aligning AIDS & Development Planning Processes:
Why and How To Do It
Bob Verbruggen
UNAIDS
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Outline of Presentation
• The Issue• Why align AIDS and development planning ?• Discussion: Experiences & Challenges• Summary of Lessons Learned
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The AIDS Perspective…
National AIDS Plan
Local GovernmentPlans
Other Sector Plans
NDP / PRSP(MDG)MTEF
International AIDS Funding Annual
Budget
Health Sector Plan
Budget
Budget
Budget
Budget
Total AIDS Budget
Development Partners AIDS Plans
(including UN)
Civil Society & Private Sector
Plans
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The National Development Perspective…
National AIDS Plan
MTEF International
AIDS Funding
Budget Budgets Budgets
Budgets
Budget
Development Partners AIDS Plans
(including UN)
Civil Society & Private Sector
PlansLocal Government
Plans
NDP / PRSP(MDG)
Other Sector Plans
National Budget
Health Sector Plan
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AIDS Response and National Development
CROWDING IN:Growing diversity of•Stakeholders•Co-ordinators
EXPECTATIONS!Growing focus on RESULTS
“EXCEPTIONAL”AIDS
RESPONSE
INTEGRATED PROGRAMMES
NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
PROCESS
VERTICAL PROGRAMMES
(Ad. From S. Mogedal)
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• The Issue• Why align AIDS & development planning ?• Discussion: Experiences & Challenges• Summary of Lessons Learned
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Four Entry Points:
• Process and Participation• Diagnostics• Policies, Strategies and Resources• Implementation and M&E
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Why align AIDS & development planning ?
What AIDS Planning has to gain
What Development Planning has to gain
1. Process and Participation
• Strengthened leadership and commitment at each level
• Broadened, more systematic participation of PLHIV and vulnerable groups
• More in-depth addressing of denial, stigma & discrimination, gender inequality
Improved coherence and creation of synergies between AIDS and other development planning processes and their outputs
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Why align AIDS & development planning ?
2. Diagnostics
Improved analysis and understanding of the ‘drivers’ of the epidemic (i.e. the factors that increase HIV vulnerability in a society) through the mobilization of expertise and data sources beyond the AIDS constituency
Improved understanding of the two way relationship between AIDS and development:
– How AIDS impacts on development at the local, sectoral and national level – How development can aggravate or mitigate HIV vulnerability and AIDS impact
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Why align AIDS & development planning ?3. Policies, Strategies and Resources
• Improved ability to prioritize AIDS strategies and resource allocation
• Integration of AIDS priorities (as captured under national UA commitments) in national, sectoral and local development plans – incl. for the medium term
• More predictable medium-term funding for AIDS through: – improved donor coordination around NDP/PRSP, MTEF, SWAp,…– securing AIDS funding within
the MTEF and annual budgets
• Improved relevance and adequacy of development plans and budgets (macroeconomic, sectoral, local)
• Gradual integration of AIDS funding in national financial management systems, allowing for:
– more rational macroeconomic management of large inflows of AIDS funding– optimal resource allocation to strenghten national systems (social sectors, local government, civil society capacity,…)
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Why align AIDS & development planning ?
4. Implementation and M&E
• Strengthened governance and implementation of the AIDS response, in particular in sectors and at the decentralized level
• Improved monitoring and evaluation capacity
• Gradual integration of the AIDS Response in regular governance mechanisms at central, sectoral and local level
• Strengthening of sectoral governance & performance thanks to the integration of AIDS
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• The Issue• Why align AIDS and development planning ?• Discussion: Experiences and Challenges• Summary of Lessons Learned
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• The Issue• Why align AIDS and development planning ?• Discussion: Experiences & Challenges• Summary of Lessons Learned
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Four Entry Points:
• Process and Participation• Diagnostics• Policies, Strategies and Resources• Implementation and M&E
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Some Lessons Learned
General
• Significant progress is being made with integrating AIDS into development planning at the national and sectoral level
• Integration in decentralised planning (‘vertical integration’) remains a challenge in most countries
• Gender is not featuring sufficiently in-depth in national development plans - and even less so in ‘downstream’ plans
S P1. Process and Participation
• Systematic involvement of the AIDS constituency in the (iterative) development planning process leads to more adequate AIDS content in PRSP/NDPs, sectoral and local development plans – even where planning cycles differ
• Participation of PLHIV and vulnerable groups is often cited but there is little documentation of genuine good practice. National AIDS Authorities have a key role in ensuring participation of AIDS-specific stakeholders in broader PRSP/NDP processes
Some Lessons Learned
S P2. Diagnostics
• The AIDS constituency is often not sufficiently aware of other existing sources of information and expertise, or not well equipped to access and utilize them
• An inventory of impact & vulnerability studies is a useful resource to analyse and identify gaps
• There are some excellent impact & vulnerability assessments but they are often still lacking - particularly at the sector level. Finding the right expertise appears to be a challenge
• The Joint UN Team on AIDS through its Joint Programme of Support, is well placed to broker technical support in this area
Some Lessons Learned
S P3. Policies, Strategies and Resources
• Prioritized and costed National Strategic AIDS Plans, guided by Universal Access targets and roadmaps, provide the basis for essential AIDS content in development plans
• Conversely, involvement in the PRSP process is an opportunity to improve the NSAP, e.g. through Joint Annual Programme Reviews
• Even though mainstreaming does not mean that everyone should do everything, priority sectors are still often being missed out (e.g. Defence and Tourism)
• Mainstreaming of AIDS in MTEFs and sector and local budgets is becoming a reality as public finance management mechanisms are being reformed and strenghtened
Some Lessons Learned
S P4. Implementation and M&E
• The PRSP implementation process offers an entry point for integrating AIDS in sector and local government plans
• AIDS Operational Plans are a key (and often missing) link between AIDS planning and (sector and local level) implementation
• Harmonization of monitoring and evaluation frameworks and processes should be part of the process of aligning NSP and PRSP content
• PRSP monitoring remains a challenge in itself
Thank you
Some Lessons Learned
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Questions for Discussion
Round Two
• How has your country aligned the content of different planning and monitoring instruments to national Universal Access priorities ?
• Has the integration of AIDS in the NDP/PRSP and other development planning resources helped to address complex socio-cultural challenges such as stigma and discrimination and gender inequality ?
• Does your Ministry of Finance perceive the inflow of large funding for AIDS as a challenge to proper macro-economic management ? If so how is it dealing with it ?
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Questions for Discussion
Round Two
• Do you know examples of AIDS funding being used to strengthen social sector systems ?
• Do you know examples of how the integration of AIDS has actually contributed to improve sector performance ?
• How is engagement to better mainstream AIDS in development planning processes resulting in improved implementation of AIDS programmes (prevention, care, support, treatment) on the ground ?