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National Plans of Actions (NPAs) in WCAR

National Plans of Actions (NPAs) in WCAR. Children and HIV and AIDS Christine Nare / HIV/AIDS specialist UNICEF Regional Office - WCAR. The Epidemic in West and Central Africa (2006). Mauritania. Mali. Niger. Senegal. Chad. Burkina Faso. Gambia. Guinea Bissau. Guinea. Benin.

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National Plans of Actions (NPAs) in WCAR

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  1. National Plans of Actions (NPAs) in WCAR Children and HIV and AIDS Christine Nare / HIV/AIDS specialist UNICEF Regional Office - WCAR

  2. The Epidemic in West and Central Africa (2006) Mauritania Mali Niger Senegal Chad Burkina Faso Gambia Guinea Bissau Guinea Benin Nigeria Sierra Leone Côte d’Ivoire Ghana Togo Central Africa Republic Liberia Cameroon Equatorial Guinea Sao Tome & Gabon DR Congo Principe Congo Source: 2006 Report on the global AIDS epidemic, UNAIDS

  3. The burden of AIDS in WCAR (2006) • Nearly 1/3 of the world’s children living with AIDS are from WCAR • Nearly 1/4 of the world’s women living with AIDS are from WCAR • Nearly 1/4 of the world’s children who have been orphaned by AIDS are from WCAR • WCAR receives less than 1/3 of the global effort • click here for 2006 UNAIDS numbers

  4. Development of NPAs • Currently a total of 12 countries with NPAs but with various stages of development in terms of scope, quality and completeness: Two categories of countries: • 1. Seven countries with operational and costed NPAs: Burkina- Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Nigeria, Central African Republic, Mali, Benin, Senegal • 2. Five countries with incompleted or draft NPAs: Sierra-Leone, Liberia, Guinea, Ghana, Togo • Perspectives: • By end of 2007 : all the 12 countries will have operationalized and costed NPAs. • New NPAs : Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),Cameroon, Gabon

  5. Definitions • General definition : Children under 18: • who are orphans or living with parents with HIV or chronically sick • who need selective or permanent social protection due to precarious socio-economic situation within or outside a family • Who bear a substantial risk of suffering significant physical, emotional or mental harm • Specific groups included in the definitions and programmes: • Orphans • Children infected • Street children • Children with physical or mental Handicap • Chidren victims of all form of abuse and exploitation • Children living in poor households • Migrant , child soldiers, refugees children, beggars…

  6. RAAAP Outcomes

  7. NPAs Scope • All integrate the 5 key strategies of the framework for the protection, Care and support of Orphans and Vulnerable Children living in a world with HIV and AIDS • strengthening the capacities of families • Mobilize & support community-based responses • Ensure access to essential services for Children (Education, Health, social protection) • Ensure improved policy and legislation to protect the most vulnerable • Raise awareness & create enabling environment • Do we need NPAs? Yes, advocacy, fund raising and programming tool • Do we need comprehensive NPAs in all countries or sector-led responses?

  8. NPA Budgets

  9. Challenges • Development of NPAs: relevance, scope and approach • participative for ownership/sustainability, RAAAP? Lighter process, sectoral plans? • Definitions of target group • Difficulty in identifying the targets group • Have implications in the cost of NPA • Low quality of situation analysis • CO and Gov.limitedcapacity to provide Quality TA for NPA development & implementation • Competing priorities because of relative low HIV prevalence and broader poverty issue - OVC/CABA not yet recognized as a priority development issue

  10. Challenges • Funding the countriesNPAs • Resource mobilization: impediments to funding: • Discrepancy between ministries who have the responsibility for NPAs development and implementation and those who have the mandate to mobilize resources for HIV/AIDS (CI, BF) • Limited fund raising capacity by ministries in charge of OVC • Most of the WCAR countries are not priority countries for “big” funding sources such as DFID, PEPFAR

  11. IATT support for NAPs’ implementation • Support review of OVC/CABA definitions in low prevalence countries for a better context specific planing • Promote sector–led responses and provide guidance for their implementation • Promote better focus on strengthening civil society and NGOs capacities for fund raising and NPAs implementation

  12. IATT support for NAPs’ implementation • Advocate for increased funding for system strengthening : institutional capacity building of line ministries for a coordinated response and M&E system • Undertake joint review missions in countries for identification of bottlenecks and Technical Assistance support

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