Global Advocacy Overview

Global Advocacy Working Group

First reportback

Objectives

Develop a joint advocacy agenda and action plan for 2008

Global Advocacy Working Group

• Opportunities for progress and victory in 2008

• What are the structures we want to influence?

• What do we want to win?

• What resources do we need in order to achieve our goals?

Opportunities for progress and victory in 2008

• Development of the Gender Strategy Framework – March 12-14 PSC meeting, Geneva– April 27-29 Board meeting, Geneva– April 22 UNAIDS PCB meeting, Thailand

• Recruitment of the Gender Champions– Launched March 2008, operational June 2008

• Round 8 TRP briefing – End August 2008

• Revision of M&E toolkit– June/July 2008

• OTHER??

Structures to influence and engage with

Secretariat

Country Coordinating Mechanisms (CCMs)

Local Fund Agents (LFAs)

Technical Review Panel (TRP)

UN Family

Technical Evaluation Reference Group (TERG)


Secretariat




UN Family



• Secretariat– Get information about the structure of draft gender strategy

framework, so we can focus the development of what we want to see in the strategy

– Build on Secretariat work on country best practices regarding gender to create a ‘best practices’ report on what the Global Fund is already funding regarding SRH/HIV integration

– Ensure Gender Champion ToRs are consistent with community recommendations

• Requiring at least one person on team to have SRH/HIV expertise• Requiring grassroots and country experience


• Secretariat (continued)– Develop and lobby for Key Performance Indicators regarding

Gender and SRH/HIV integration for the Global Fund: For Board/ED/Fund Portfolio Managers

– Engage with Round 8 information sessions being organized by the Global Fund and UN partners

– Develop and lobby for priority recommended indicators for inclusion in revised M&E toolkit

– Development of Gender Fact Sheet--what does it look like?– Require countries to report on key RH commodities procurement

data to Global Fund price reporting mechanism


Secretariat




UN Family



• Country Coordinating Mechanisms (CCMs)– Ensuring gender expertise among and available to

CCM members for Round 8– Require CCM self assessment on gender

• How can we make sure CCMs have ownership over the process?

– Exploring working for an additional requirement that CCMs include gender experts

• Target: Portfolio Committee


Secretariat




UN Family



• Local Fund Agents (through the Secretariat)– Work for development of a gender assessment that

would happen during periodic disbursement requests and grant negotiations


SecretariatCountry Coordinating Mechanisms (CCMs)Local Fund Agents (LFAs)Technical Review Panel (TRP)UN FamilyTechnical Evaluation Reference Group (TERG)


• Technical Review Panel (TRP)– Work for briefing of TRP by ‘Gender Expert,’ who would align

with key community talking points on current base of best practice, information on drivers of the epidemic in countries, other relevant guidance and data

– Increase gender expertise of TRP (note: we have to define what that actually means in concrete terms)

– Add gender issues as a criterion by which the TRP evaluates a proposal

– Develop a Round 8 ‘Shadow Report’ (building on successes from Round 7)

– Addressing 40% HIV approval ‘ceiling’




• UN Family– Nominate gender experts to work on M&E Reference

Group (MERG)

– Work for even more SRH/HIV material in briefing documents for TRP for Round

– UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO sit together and coordinate their messages to countries (during Round 8 information sessions and other fora)


• UN Family– Work with new SRH-HIV Working Group initiated by WHO HIV

and RH departments• Actions: support management of TS for countries for integrated HIV

proposals in order to increase the size and quality of country demand—Malawi success one example/use of RDT effort (note: this is complicated because of existing concerns re quality of HIV TS)

• Provide consolidated set of user friendly tools for countries • Short term and long term work on evidence and best practice• Work on possible gaps

– Definitions – Moving forward policy dialogue at the global level




• Technical Evaluation Reference Group (TERG)– Timeline slowing down (?) for 5 year impact evaluation

completion– Use this as opportunity to include work on gender and

SRH/HIV integration

additional work…

• Who will do what?• What additional allies do we need to work

with?• How do we continue and expand our

ongoing work? • Identify other donors: eg Canadian CIDA

working on PMTCT+--how can we leverage this?

additional work…

• Further elaboration of what we want in a gender strategy (not only information about the issues, but how we want the Fund to change in order to respond to needs of women, girls and sexual minorities)

• Thinking beyond 2008: IMPLEMENTATION and moving beyond country proposals

additional work…

• These are ‘rooftop discussions’--SRH is not a priority at country level--so what can we do to transform that? We need support for community mobilization, civil society advocacy as a component of grant requests to make this work for women and their communities!

Global Advocacy Overview

Business

gender expertise

gender assessment

gender champions

secretariat work

global advocacy

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gender champion tors

gender experts target