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GOVERNANCE - QUESTION 3

How can the Committee of Cosponsoring Organizations improve policy coherence between UNAIDS and Cosponsor boards and better integrate efforts to deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals, including at country level?

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16 comments:

  1. Dr. Jonathan CalbayanFebruary 3, 2017 at 10:13 AM

    The committee on cosponsoring organizations should guide and ensure a ceiling of appropriate budget that cosponsors should adapt to its country operations. This would ensure that country operations would be guided accordingly to allocate an appropriate budget on HIV activities within the prescribed range and not be overrun by many other operational priorities. In this sense the country operation will be guided during country operation planning and work maximally against the prescribed budget ceiling. I believe that accountability by cosponsors is better measured and monitored if a prescribed budget for cosponsors especially in the country level is set in order ensure that HIV related activities are not deprioritized.

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  2. Joint Planning is key. Having all cosponsors strategies aligned to the UNAIDS strategy for example is key.

    Communication between boards has to be stronger.

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  3. Member states as members of the PCB and of other governing boards should ensure policy coherence between the different governing boards and better integrate efforts to achieve the SDGs including at the country level. This should also include provision of adequate financial support to ensure the board decisions are implemented.

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  4. One of the critical constraints on the way the CCO currently operates is that it meets at head of agency level only briefly once or twice a year. It has become accepted practice that the CCO can only meet at head of agency level. The engagement of heads of agency is important for high level policy guidance, but this leaves a gap in terms of day-to-day coordination. This could be improved by a greater empowerment of the Global Coordinators within the management of the joint programme, and recognition that the CCO can meet at both the head of agency and GC levels.
    Improving policy coherence could be achieved by making more space for HIV issues to be discussed in the boards of cosponsoring agencies. Regular reporting back to the CCO and PCB on the deliberations in the boards of the Cosponsors could also help. The representatives of member-states could also provide a useful bridge between the UNAIDS and cosponsor boards by improving their intra-governmental coordination and ensuring that consistent positions are taken on the boards of cosponsors and in the PCB.

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  5. To increase communication and understanding around co-sponsors comparative advantage and contribution to the HIV response, stronger linkages should be built between the PCB and the executive boards of cosponsoring agencies. This would also increase donor’s interest in the specific work on the co-sponsors vis à vis HIV, based on their clear expertise and mandate.
    Maybe specific meetings or discussions could be organized on the co-sponsors' work beyond HIV (gender equality, violence, human rights, employment etc) and its links with HIV specific responses

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  6. Members of the PCB and other governing boards should ensure policy coherence between the different governing bodies and better integrate efforts to achieve the SDGs including at the country level. This should also include provision of adequate financial support to ensure the board decisions are implemented.

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  7. CCO needs overhaul, it does not have real influence on agency policies and strategies

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  8. For the first part of the question I’m not sure it is the role of the Committee of Cosponsoring Organizations. However, the UN should encourage Member States to increase information-sharing between all the Member States representatives to the different boards. This would ensure that the Member States’ positions on political, strategic and thematic matters are echoed across different boards.
    The second part of the question is work in progress, coordinated under the auspices of the Joint teams on HIV and AIDS at the country level, usually led by UNAIDS. The country dynamics vary from one country to the next and depend on the context but the commitment of all to deliver on the SDGs already exist. Some cosponsors have taken initiatives to step up the pace of delivery towards the SDGs and these efforts will continue up to 2030. A key issue are the means to support the delivery and “all hands on deck” are called for.

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  9. Se debe mantener un diálogo extenso entre el comité de organizadores copatrocinadores y ONUSIDA para mejorar los esfuerzos para cumplir los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible.

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  10. Countries as well as all co-sponsoring agencies need to support coherent policies within UNAIDS and cosponsor boards (such as implement key directives such as UNDRIP across all UN CCOs), and commit to having a coordinated AIDS ecosystem.

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  11. Member states as members of the PCB and other governing boards are responsible for ensuring policy coherence between the different governing boards. This should also be applied to the national strategies at country level (for example policy coherence between the national drug policies and national AIDS strategies) better integrate efforts to achieve the SDGs. This efforts should also include the provision of adequate financial support to ensure the board decisions are implemented.

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  12. Le comité des organismes co -parrains doit exécrer une plus grande influence au niveau de ces structures pays afin de les amener à travailler plus étroitement et de manière plus coordonnée pour de meilleures résultats .

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  13. UNAIDS PCB should be reinforced and more inclusive of Civil Society and regional representation (like for the GF) and private sector as permanent Board members.


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  14. At the technical level the cosponsors and secretariat need to have better communication on SDG issues, even if not directly related to HIV. There are committees, consultations, documents, initiatives coming out at a very fast pace, attending to them both at cosponsor and secretariat level requires specific resources for coordination and communication purposes. Decisions like this are made at agency head and CCO levels.

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  15. Deliberately invest in funding approaches that are connected to the SDGs and have HIV prevention and treatment results such as human resources for health, education, food and nutrition, social protection, universal health insurance and health systems strengthening.Bring back multi-sectorial programming that UNDP and the World Bank championed in the beginning of the AIDS epidemic.

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  16. Now more than ever, we need a strong voice in the UN system and globally to advocate for a sustained AIDS response and UNAIDS has an important role to play. Together the Cosponsors and the Secretariat are greater than the sum of its parts. Given the scope and scale of the Agenda 2030, progress on ending the AIDS epidemic and the SDGs more broadly will require innovative and multi-dimensional solutions that harness synergies across goals. As such, the role of Cosponsors is becoming even more critical. With several Cosponsors developing new Strategic Plans, it is important that Member States advocate for HIV as a priority in these Plans at the respective Cosponsor Boards.

    UNDP, under the umbrella of the UN Development Group, is supporting countries in the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the Sustainable Development Goals using the MAPS approach. MAPS stands for Mainstreaming, Acceleration, and Policy Support.

    The scope and projected costs of achieving the SDGs call for more efficient financing models. The UNDP HIV, Health and Development (HHD) Team has developed an innovative cross-sectoral co-financing method which could help countries to increase economic efficiencies by pooling resources from multiple sectors to fund mutually beneficial structural interventions.

    HIV and health also have an important role to play as potential accelerators for many of the SDG targets. The UNDP team is assisting countries identify synergies across goals and targets in finding bottlenecks, which if unlocked, could lead to faster progress across multiple SDGs at the same time. Comprehensive progress on many of the SDG will only be achieved when plans and strategies have a HIV and health component.

    As part of a compendium of resources being developed to support SDG implementation, the UNDP HIV and health team has prepared a draft prospectus on SDG 3 (ensuring healthy lives for all) that outlines our service offerings for policy support —an integrated package of policy and programme support services. The team’s focus on reducing health inequities means a strong focus on supporting equal rights for all including the most vulnerable, marginalized and excluded populations.

    The UNDP Bureau for Policy and Programming Support (BPPS) has established a SDG Technical Support Team to support countries in the roll-out of the 2030 Agenda. In 2016, the TST has supported nine countries missions, with another 40 scheduled for 2017. The UNDP HIV team has been supporting the country missions by providing an analysis of the HIV and health situation in-country and identifying strategic opportunities for inclusion of HIV and health issues in the roadmaps developed.

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