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The Uganda HIV/AIDS Partnership
PEPFAR is one of the largest funding programmes in Uganda. It covers various interventions in all the major thematic areas of prevention, treatment and care and support. It focuses on families and communities, where changes in behavior take place and are supported. It has supported many programmes in the various sectors including the PIASCY programme under the Ministry of Education. PEPFAR activities are hinged on agreed country planning frameworks and aligned to national priorities. follow this link for details. PEPFAR
Partnerships Cordination
The 2001 coordination review exercise agreed on a structure that promotes participatory and self coordination. A concept note on the Partnership approach was later developed and the mechanism was agreed on through stakeholder consultations. The Partnership structure started functioning in 2002 and is still being developed.
The Uganda Partnership Coordination mechanism consists of the Partnership Forum, the Partnership Committee, 12 Self-Coordinating Entities and the Partnership Fund.
The Partnership Fund
This was established in 2002 and has since been the major source of funding for HIV/AIDS coordination and management efforts of UAC, Self-Coordinating entities and other national level stakeholders. The following have over the years contributed to the Fund: DFID, DCI, NORAD, UNAIDS. Some Development Partners including USAID do not provide direct funding to the Fund but provide support to identified coordination and management priorities.
The Partnership Forum
This is an annual event of all stakeholders at national and lower levels that attracts political/policy and technical representation to share information on the status of the epidemic and response and agree on national priorities for action.
Several Partnership forums have been held since.
The Partnership Committee
This is the backbone of the Partner -ship mechanism. It is constituted of representatives from the 12 SCEs and some agencies have permanent seats on the PC including UAC, UNAIDS, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Gender Labour and Social Development and Ministry of Finance and Economic Development.
Self-Coordinating Entities (SCEs)
These are clusters of HIV/AIDS stakeholders that have something in common. It was conceived that members of these clusters would collectively contribute to the management and coordination of the response if they had opportunities for dialogue to address concerns, share experiences and identify gaps and then share these with other stakeholders through the Partnership Committee and Partnership Forum. SCEs have generic terms of reference but individual SCEs can develop these further to accommodate issues unique to the constituency. Membership to most SCEs can be easily established and readily accessed while for others especially those that attract individuals e.g. the SCE of Young People are still developing mechanisms of identifying and reaching all membership. Some SCEs have conducted mapping exercises to establish their membership. The coordination activities of most SCEs are facilitated through the Partnership Fund.
For details follow this link: SCEs