Children and aids newsletter

Objectives of the session:

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  Understand the different types of national responses implemented
  
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  Identify key challenges in the set up and implementation of national response
  
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  Identify key success factors in setting up, strengthening and scaling up national responses
  
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  Identify key action steps at global, national, and local levels that can support the strengthening of national responses
  
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  Identify major gaps in knowledge that should be prioritized in future research
  

Presentations should focus on:

China:

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  Example of key political and leadership involvement in the development of a national response to children affected by AIDS in China
  
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  Key factors for success
  
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  Key challenges faced
  
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  Next steps in the response
  

Zambia:

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  The process of setting up an NPA indicating how the NPA links to the FNDP, the Medium Term Expenditure Framework and the proposed Zambia Council for Children
  
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  The role of the social welfare Ministry in the scale up, monitoring and implementation of the NPA (institutional capacity)
  
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  Key success factors
  
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  Key challenges
  
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  Next steps in the response
  

Kenya:

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  Example of the development of a social protection agenda
  
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  Examples of cash transfer delivery within the social protection agenda
  
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  Examples of alternative care efforts (foster care, guardianship, etc.) and other social welfare services for vulnerable children and families.
  
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  Examples of scale up, specifically institutional capacity of the social welfare sector as a whole to deliver both the social protection transfers and child protection services
  
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  Monitoring the response
  
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  Next steps in the response
  

Discussion: