Collaboration needs to be enhanced at different levels:
Collaboration between the CFAs in the North: To be able to deal with all challenges, CFA’s need to intensify their collaboration. Experiences with management tools and good practices should be exchanged more frequently. Cooperation within SAN’ should be continued as this will create opportunities for the CFAs to elaborate strategies and confront crucial issues in a more effective and efficient way and at larger scale. To that end ownership of SAN! by the CFAs should be firmer established. More and better involvement of the CFA’s and a transparent way in decision-making will contribute to this ownership.
Collaboration between the CFAs in the field: As the impact of prevention activities funded over the years is not obvious, its should be recommended that all prevention activities by CFAs and counterparts have to be intensified in scale. According to the evaluators, prevention in a HIV/AIDS context needs collaboration between donors and civil society organisations, and therefore, CFAs should consider pooling their funds for prevention and becoming more important and long-term committed players together with all their counterparts in prevention campaigns at national or regional levels. The SAN! platform could be used for cooperation in lobbying and prevention campaigns in different countries of the South with all the counterparts of the CFAs. If prevention and lobbying is about scale, quality and speed then collaboration between say 100 counterparts in Southern India of the CFAs is much more valuable, efficient and effective than the same prevention or lobbying campaign with the 20 counterparts of one individual CFA.
More linking and networking between counterparts of the CFAs: the evaluators could notice that not often grassroot organisations are linked to national and international networks/organisations, although this linking could contribute to a mutual enhancement. In particular in relation to advocacy and lobby, this linking of grassroot organisations with specialised organisations and networks should be improved as grassroot organisations do have a lot of experience and can deliver good advocacy and lobby cases but often lack the capacity to bring them to the right audience.
