UNAIDS InterAgency Task Team on Education

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A Window of Hope ?
Education and HIV/AIDS
source UNAIDS
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A Social Vaccine? HIV prevalence by education
category, Rural Uganda, 1990-2001. Individuals
aged 18-29.
De Walque and J Whitworth, MRC Uganda (2002)
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HIV/AIDS and Education Paradox

• 1. Education is one of the most effective
  social vaccines to prevent HIV/AIDS
• 2. HIV/AIDS destroys education systems

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UNAIDS InterAgency Task Team on Education (IATT)
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Accelerating the Education Sector Response to
HIV/AIDS in Africa

• Sharing information among countries
• Building partnerships in the education sector

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Development Partners supporting Education sector
responses to HIV/AIDS include

• UN System UNESCO, UNAIDS, UNICEF, UNDP, UNFPA,
  ILO, WFP, WHO, World Bank
• Bilateral AID agencies CIDA, Development
  Cooperation Ireland, DFID, USAID
• Non Governmental Organizations Association for
  the Development of Education in Africa, Aga Khan
  Foundation, Mobile Task Team, Partnership for
  Child Development

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Accelerating the Education Sector Response to
HIV/AIDS in AfricaThe workshops as a point of
entry for dialogue

• Promote sectoral leadership
• Share information and build capacity
• Identify gaps in knowledge and capacity
• Strengthen stakeholder coordination
• Identify new resources
• Build networks

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The workshop process New resource streams for
AIDS in the education sector

• Host country supports local costs through
  education and multisectoral (AIDS) resources.
• Visiting teams (external or internal) do the same
• Often the first use of multisectoral funds by the
  education sector
• Stakeholders coordinate support for unfunded
  areas, and for external inputs

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The workshop process Share information and
identify gaps in knowledge and capacity

• Define the current situation
• Use thematic groups (Planning, Prevention, OVC
  and Policy) to share knowledge, and prioritize
  actions
• Use plenary sessions to explore cross-cutting
  issues (gender, OVC, myths, financing)
• Prioritize local plans and actions

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MAP Disbursement to MOEs
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MAP Projects Disbursing to MOE
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Workplace Policies

• Eliminating stigmatization and discrimination
• Care and support of staff
• Enforcing Codes of Practice

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Planning Mitigation

• Projecting the impact of HIV/AIDS on supply and
  demand
• Establishing management and information systems
• Implementing mitigation options

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Prevention

• Formal and Non-formal curricula
• Life skills programs
• Teacher training programs
• Peer education

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Orphans and Vulnerable Children

• Removing barriers to education
• Providing care and support

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The workshop process Commonly identified gaps

• Planning lack of AIDS specific indicators
• Prevention lack of systematic teacher training,
  absence of action at the school level
• OVC lack of coordination with the social sector
• Policy lack of a workplace policy

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The workshop process Sharing information and
experience

• Local, regional and international TA
• Develop analytical materials in response to
  demand
• 24 core documents (English, French and
  Portuguese)
• More than 50,000 documents distributed in three
  languages.
• Access to dedicated website (www.schoolsandhealth.
  org)

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Hits per month for January 2003 March
2004 ScHGithHiyyool Health Web Site
(www.schoolsandhealth.org)
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The workshop process Development of networks

• East Africa Political network, study tours,
  national workshops, regional coordinator
• Lusophone Africa establishment of an AIDS and
  education subgroup of PALOPS
• Nigeria Joint Federal MoE/National Institute for
  Education Planning and Management program to
  support action by all 36 States.

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Democratic Republic of EritreaMinistry of
Education Rapid Results Initiative in Maekel
Zoba

• All-grade, peer education implemented in all
  schools
• Supported by environmental improvements for
  promoting socialization of youth and girls
  education
• Pre-post evaluation shows reported sexual
  activity fell from 9 to 2
• Disbursement for AIDS and education increased by
  350
• Two of the remaining 4 Zobas have implemented the
  same program

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Federal Democratic Republic of EthiopiaMinistry
of Education Recommendation of Annual Sector
Review Meeting

• The importance between education and HIV/AIDS has
  been sufficiently demonstrated.
• Action plans should be fully integrated in the
  (regional) planning processes and funds are to be
  allocated accordingly.
• HAPCO needs to be approached in this regard.

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Republic of MozambiqueMinistry of Education

• Appointment of full time AIDS advisor to Minister
• Development of action plans and allocation of
  budget for AIDS responses by all 11 provinces
• Direct grant for AIDS activities to 8000 schools
• Leadership in creating a Lusophone network

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Federal Republic of Nigeria

• Full time HIV/AIDS Unit in the Federal Ministry
  of Education, with focal points in each State
• National Institute (NIEPA) is developing capacity
  to support all 36 states, and has trained teams
  from 14 in 9 months (serving a population of
  60million)
• 14 States are credit effective and disbursing
  AIDS resources to the education sector.

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States participating in the Accelerate Initiative
States participating in the Ed-SIDA Initiative
States participating in both the Accelerate and
Ed-SIDA Initiatives
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Next Steps focus on workshops in West and
Central Africa

• Ghana (August) with Liberia, The Gambia, Sierra
  Leone and Nigeria
• Zambia (August) 9 Provinces
• Nigeria (October) 8 States
• Senegal (November) with Benin, Burkina Faso,
  Cote DIvoire, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger,
  Togo
• DRC (tbd) with Congo-Brazzaville, Cameroon, Chad
  and CAR

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Independent Evaluations in 2004

• Government of Norway Norwegian Education Trust
  Fund
• Government of Ireland Ireland Education Trust
  Fund
• UNESCO team World Bank Development Grant Facility

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For more information, please visit

• www.schoolsandhealth.org