|
Although the counterpart organisations (in particular the HIV/AIDS focussed organisations) deliver high quality services and their activities are crucial for individual AIDS-affected people, most of the activities of these counterparts do not make a difference in the fight against HIV/AIDS, particularly in fields such as prevention, sexual behaviour by men, livelihood programmes, etc., because of the very small and scattered scale of these activities.
In the period 2001-2004 some pioneering on external mainstreaming processes have started at counterpart level. Recently more and more initiatives have been taken by generalist counterparts to start a process of external mainstreaming, but due to a lack of knowledge, HR capacity and mostly due to a lack of additional funding, counterparts had great difficulties to adapt all programme activities to the HIV/AIDS context. An enormous field of priority actions for the coming years can be developed here by the CFAs through a continuous support (advice, knowledge, funding,…) creating opportunities to respond to the changing HIV/AIDS context.
Challenges:
-
In countries with a generalised epidemic, HIV/AIDS has become such a widespread phenomenon that all counterparts are confronted with this. The evaluators are of the opinion that the CFAs should value their comparative advantages more, being generalist organisations with experiences in specific sectors, building up capacity of civil society organisations that challenge poverty and social injustice. HIV/AIDS mainstreaming (internal and external) within and with generalist organisations, seems more apparent and will require a more appropriate strategy and a more focussed policy and action plan. External mainstreaming by integrating HIV/AIDS into the strategies/programmes and activities of the counterparts will be the greatest challenge for the future and that means better HIV/AIDS analyses in an ever changing HIV/AIDS context as well as more community research to design mainstreamed programmes.
-
Aids focused organisations could still be funded of course. However, the evaluators are of the opinion that this support to HIV/AIDS focussed organisations needs to be focussed and specific in order to make the difference and to go to scale. Otherwise impact will remain limited. Going to scale can be realised, for example, by developing inspiring models of support of HIV/AIDS programmes that can be used by other donors.
-
The evaluators recommend also to support umbrella organisations or networks that are able to work with a great number of CBOs with whom they can share experiences, new approaches, successes or failures, rather than to support one single organisation. Also collaboration and knowledge exchange between aids-focused organisations and generalist organisations, which is almost non-existent at the moment, should be encouraged by the CFAs in their future programmes.
-
Support to HIV/AIDS focussed organisations that target specific marginalised groups remains relevant as these groups are often excluded from government HIV/AIDS programmes.
-
The development of new methodologies and approaches in which beneficiaries participate is a challenge for the future. The CFAs have been leaders already in the field of HIV/AIDS regarding internal and external mainstreaming. This process should be continued and intensified.
Dostları ilə paylaş: |
