Structured Abstract
| Document Title: | UNAIDS Support for Countries Accessing the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. HIV/AIDS Proposals: Lessons from Round One. August 2002 |
| Institution: | Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Country and Regional Support Department |
| Authors: | not mentioned |
| Study commissioned by: | Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Country and Regional Support Department |
| Objectives: | To document, to assess and to improve UN System support to countries submitting proposals for the Global Fund |
| Methods: | Review of UN support for the development of HIV/AIDS proposals in the first round: consultations with Secretariat and country level staff, national counterparts, bilateral donors and NGO networks, with a focus on the country level process of developing HIV/AIDS "components" for submission to the Global Fund. This report includes major finding of similar reviews conducted by UNAIDS co-sponsors. Issues related to the Global Fund and the role of the UN at country level have been discussed at several meetings of the UN Development Group (DGO) and the UNAIDS Committee of Cosponsoring Organizations (CCO). In addition, the UNAIDS Secretariat sponsored a meeting in Nairobi to review experiences in Eastern and Southern Africa, and collaborated with USAID in the organization of a similar sub-regional meeting for West Africa (Abidjan). Since the March deadline, other meetings to review Round 1 experiences have been held. Participants of these meetings included government leaders, members of national proposal development teams, consultants contracted with the support of the UN system to support national teams, representatives of UNAIDS cosponsors and secretariat, Global Fund representatives and civil society networks. |
| Results and conclusions: | According to the authors, "through its cosponsors and secretariat, UNAIDS has a unique capacity to provide assistance at country level in the Global Fund process. With offices in almost every country, and strong relations with governments, civil society and partners in the cooperation community, and close involvement in the ongoing evolution of the Fund and design of its mechanisms, the UN is ideally placed to both support and influence Global Fund processes.
Among the most relevant areas of the UN system's comparative advantage vis-a-vis the Fund are:
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