Accelerating the Education Sector Response to HIV: Five Years of Experience from Sub-saharan Africa (Education and Hiv Aids)

Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 11
Foreword......Page 13
Acknowledgments......Page 15
Abbreviations and Acronyms......Page 25
Overview......Page 29
Introduction......Page 37
Background to the Accelerate Initiative......Page 39
1 The UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT) on Education......Page 40
Implementation of the Accelerate Initiative......Page 41
The Evolution of the Accelerate Initiative......Page 42
Review of the Accelerate Initiative: Five Years On......Page 43
1. Promoting Leadership by the Education Sector and Creating Sectoral Demand for a Response to HIV/AIDS......Page 45
3 Leadership by the Education Sector within a Small State: The Republic of Burundi......Page 47
2 Evaluation of the Accelerate Initiative Workshops......Page 49
2. Harmonizing Support among Development Partners to Better Assist Countries and Reduce Transaction Costs......Page 51
3. Promoting Coordination with the National AIDS Authorities and Enhancing Access to AIDS Funds......Page 57
4. Sharing Information on HIV/AIDS with Specific Relevance to the Education Sector......Page 61
9 A Checklist of Good Practice......Page 62
Promoting Greater Access to a Critical Subset of Existing Information on AIDS and Education......Page 64
5. Strengthening the Technical Content and Implementation of the Education Sector Response to HIV/AIDS......Page 71
14 The Senegalese Experience: School Health, Nutrition, and HIV/AIDS Programming......Page 73
Planning and Mitigation......Page 76
17 The Ministry of Education HIV/AIDS Focal Point Survey: A Tool for Monitoring Process......Page 79
9 Progress in Implementing Prevention Activities before and after the Accelerate Initiative......Page 82
6. Conclusions and the Way Forward......Page 85
More Effective Links with Development Partners Are Emerging......Page 86
More and Better Quality Information Is Available......Page 87
Not All Sectoral HIV Responses Are Mainstream Activities......Page 88
Effective Monitoring and Evaluation Remain a Major Challenge......Page 89
EFA-FTI Processes Are Strengthening HIV/AIDS Responses within the Education Sector Plans......Page 90
The Future of the Accelerate Initiative......Page 91
Appendixes......Page 93
Appendix A: Chronology of Accelerate Workshops......Page 95
Appendix B: Development Partners Involved in Subregional and National Workshops Held since 2002......Page 99
Appendix C: Top 20 Distributed Documents to Date......Page 103
Appendix D: Accelerating the Education Sector Response to HIV/AIDS in Africa: A Checklist of Good Practice......Page 105
Appendix E: 2007 Survey Questionnaire......Page 113
References......Page 123
Index......Page 125
1 Country Participation in the Accelerate Initiative Since 2002......Page 46
4 Mainstreaming: The Gender Perspective......Page 48
5 Civil Society’s Role in Accelerating the Education Sector Response to HIV/AIDS......Page 52
6 HIV/AIDS as a Workplace Issue......Page 54
7 Fostering “Greater Involvement of People Living with HIV/AIDS (GIPA)” in the Accelerate Initiative......Page 56
8 Accessing NAC Funding in the West Africa Network......Page 58
10 The “Window of Hope” Documentary......Page 63
7 Mean Number of Monthly Download File Requests......Page 66
13 Taking Activities to Scale: Teacher Training in Ghana......Page 72
15 Providing Teachers with Access to Free VCT and ART: A Success Story from Zambia......Page 74
16 Agreeing on Indicators and Effective M&E Strategies......Page 77
18 Developing HIV/AIDS Prevention Curricula in Central Africa......Page 80
19 Direct Support to Schools (DSS) in Mozambique......Page 81
20 The Group for the Study and Teaching of Population Issues (GEEP): An Experiment to Prevent the Spread of HIV/AIDS among Schoolchildren......Page 83
21 Key Findings of the 2007 Focal Point Survey......Page 84
3 Development Partners Involved in Each of the Subregional and National Workshops Held since 2002......Page 53
4 Level of Representation of UN Agencies, Bilateral Donors, and Civil Society Organizations at the Subregional and National Workshops and Network Meetings Held since 2002......Page 55
5 Chronology of Ministries of Education First Accessing Funds from Their National AIDS Councils (NACs)......Page 59
6 Monthly Web Site Hits, January 2003–December 2006......Page 65
8 Progress in Implementing Policy Activities before and after the Accelerate Initiative......Page 75