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Regional Technical Support Hubs The International HIV/AIDS Alliance (the Alliance) is committed to strengthening the pool of leaders able to champion the HIV response, as well as the skills and resources of civil society organisations, to enable them to take effective action on HIV. We do this through our seven Regional Technical Support Hubs.
WHO ARE THE HUBS FOR? Non-governmental organisations, community-based organisations, umbrella organisations, co-ordinating bodies, governmental organisations, Country Coordinating Mechanisms (CCMs), UN agencies and private sector organisations.
ASSURING QUALITY The technical support provided by the Alliance Hubs is evidencebased and context specific, and builds on Alliance good programming standards. A rigorous process is in place to ensure the client’s needs are met and the technical support is of high quality. The Hubs strive to use and build the capacity of local and regional technical support providers including the communities themselves.
HUBS EXPERTISE Special technical areas: HIV prevention, treatment and care (with a focus on community mobilisation); children; gender; impact mitigation; TB/HIV; harm reduction; human rights; stigma and discrimination; HIV and sexual and reproductive health and rights linkages; and health systems strengthening. Organisational development: strategic and operational planning; monitoring and evaluation; programme design and management; financial management; resource mobilisation; networking and advocacy; and knowledge management, documentation and communications. Specialist Global Fund technical support: proposal development, especially for Community Systems Strengthening components; programme and sub-recipients management, e.g. leadership, governance, organisational development, monitoring and evaluation and reporting, and financial management; strengthening civil society engagement with CCMs; and Global Fund-related grant implementation, e.g. pre-signature support, Phase II and close-out.
Examples of technical support provided by the hubs
Gender sensitive programming for women who use drugs South Asia and South East Asia and Pacific Regional Technical Support Hubs • The two hubs won a grant from UNDP to build capacity on gender sensitive approaches in HIV programming • The project targeted women who use drugs and the female partners of men who use drugs in India, Cambodia and Bangladesh • Training, study visits and mentoring was provided by the Technical Support Hub to national technical support providers.
PMTCT training for healthcare workers East, Central and Southern Africa Regional Technical Support Hub
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• Health care workers in South Sudan were trained on prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and UNICEF
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• Kenyan trainers were sourced through the Hub, and the Kenya National PMTCT curriculum was adapted for the South Sudan context • Although challenges remain, this work shows it is feasible to provide PMTCT services in hard to reach areas.
Assessment of responses to HIV infection among MSM South Asia Regional Technical Support Hub
• The research brought together published and unpublished observations, research and programme data on MSM and transgender populations in the region and made specific recommendations to improve services • The Hub was selected because of its links to the relevant communities, enabling them to source representative and comprehensive data, and to facilitate a community review process on the findings before the report was finalised.
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• The World Health Organization commissioned a research project on HIV infection among men who have sex with men (MSM) in the South East Asia region
South East Asia and Pacific Regional Technical Support Hub
There has been a great deal of demand for the report, which is of excellent quality! We look forward to discussing further collaboration with the Alliance Technical Support Hub Dr Josephine Sauvarin, UNFPA Asia Pacific Regional Office
South-south cooperation on MONITORING AND EVALUATION for Global Fund programme management Latin America Regional Technical Support Hub
The project featured as a UNDP case study of good practice in building regional capacity
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• Kimirina (Alliance Linking Organisation in Ecuador) was selected as Principal Recipient (PR) for Global Fund round 8 (malaria) and round 9 (HIV) and felt it needed to strengthen its results-based management systems, specifically on monitoring and evaluation • The Hub helped Kimirina develop a manual for planning and monitoring and evaluation. A consultant was sourced from an experienced Global Fund PR in the region, establishing a relationship of cooperation between the two organisations
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I am satisfied by the good work that has been done and I am certain mother-to-child transmission of HIV will be greatly reduced. I commend the Alliance for its commitment to ensuring the PMTCT training and follow up was professionally done
• The Hub organised a study visit for two Kimirina staff members to Via Libre (Alliance Linking Organisation in Peru and Global Fund Sub-Recipient) to learn from their experience of managing, monitoring and evaluating Global Fund projects.
• UNFPA commissioned a mapping assignment from the Hub to provide an overview of youth sexual and reproductive health networking throughout the Asia region and to identify potential areas for capacity building • The Hub collected data through a desk-based review and from youth leaders and networks, youth-serving organisations, networks representing populations vulnerable to HIV, citizen journalists from most-at-risk populations and UNFPA country offices • Originally designed to inform the UNFPA regional strategy, the report was considered so comprehensive that UNFPA disseminated it to a far broader audience and is using the work as a springboard for further regional and national cooperation between the Alliance and UNFPA.
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The State of Youth Networking for Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV in Asia 2010 South East Asia and Pacific Regional Technical Support Hub
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Dr Akasha Abdelsalam, Director of prevention and capacity building at the Ministry of Health
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The study visit provided us with key concepts and clear guidelines for the monitoring and evaluation of projects in Kimirina. This experience of inter-organisational cooperation allows us to grow as organisations Amira Herdoíza R., Executive Director of Kimirina
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Resources for Technical Support Alliance technical support is supported by a range of Alliance publications and toolkits. We have over 300 resources including training manuals, policy briefings, good practice guides and CD-ROMs. All resources can be downloaded and ordered from www.aidsalliance.org/resources
Location OF ALLIANCE REGIONAL TECHNICAL SUPPORT HUBS Jamaica Caribbean
Burkina Faso West and North Africa
Ukraine Eastern Europe and Central Asia
India South Asia Uganda East, Central and Southern Africa
Cambodia South East Asia and Pacific
Peru Latin America
CONTACT US Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Alliance Ukraine (Kiev)
brodska@aidsalliance.org.ua
East, Central and Southern Africa
KANCO (Nairobi)
rmukendi@aidsalliance.org
West and North Africa
IPC (Burkina Faso)
ki.adboulaye@gmail.com
South Asia
Alliance India (Delhi)
jsen@allianceindia.org
South East Asia and Pacific
KHANA (Cambodia)
ggray@khana.org.kh
Latin America
Via Libre (Peru)
mmartinez@vialibre.org.pe
Caribbean
Caribbean HIV/AIDS Alliance dchevannes@alliancecarib.org.tt (Jamaica)
You can read more about the Alliance Regional Technical Support Hubs at: www.aidsalliance.org/resources, or for cross-regional information email: tshubs@aidsalliance.org HFV0710