Global Advocacy Working Group

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Global Advocacy Working Group

• First reportback

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Objectives

• Develop a joint advocacy agenda and action plan
  for 2008

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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?

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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 ME toolkit
• June/July 2008
• OTHER??

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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)

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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)

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Structures to influence and engage with

• 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

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Structures to influence and engage with

• 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 ME 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

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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)

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Structures to influence and engage with

• 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

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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)

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Structures to influence and engage with

• Local Fund Agents (through the Secretariat)
• Work for development of a gender assessment that
  would happen during periodic disbursement
  requests and grant negotiations

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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)

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Structures to influence and engage with

• 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

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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)

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Structures to influence and engage with

• UN Family
• Nominate gender experts to work on ME 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)

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Structures to influence and engage with

• 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 demandMalawi
  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

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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)

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Structures to influence and engage with

• 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

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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?

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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

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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!