Mbn hiv/aids evaluation final report Team of consultants

Budget 2001 Euro	Budget 2002 Euro	Budget 2003 Euro
Budget 2004 Euro
ICCO
Totals for ICCO % to total of 5 CFAs	66,546.00 10.35%	80,621.00 13.81%	105,621.00 10.78%	78,000.00 6.04%
NOVIB
Totals for NOVIB % to total of 5 CFAs	82,500.00 12.83%	111,000.00 18.87%	202,000.00 20.62%	191,250.00 14.82%
CORDAID
Totals for CORDAID % to total of 5CFAs			75,000.00 7.66%	145,000.00 11.23%
HIVOS
Totals for HIVOS % to total of 5 CFAs	491,492.00 76.46%	394,125.00 67.01%	583,055.00 59.52%	858,514.00 66.51%
PLAN
Totals for PLAN % to total of 5 CFAs	2,269.00 0.35%	2,382.00 0.41%	13,890.00 1.42%	18,000.00 1.39%
Totals for 5 CFAs	642,807.00	588,128.00	979,572.00	1,290,764.00

Remark: Campaigns and lobby: all programmes/networks/organisations that have been funded to develop HIV/AIDS-related lobby activities and/or campaigns. These can be initiatives in Europe or in the South.
The total amount of money invested in the area of lobbying and campaigning for HIV/AIDS issues doubled in the period 2001-2004, from 642.807EUR to 1.290.764EUR⁹. Plan is underrepresented in this table (although Plan has increased its budget from 2.269 EUR in 2001 to 18.000EUR in 2004) and HIVOS gives most priority to lobbying and campaigning of all CFAs, considering their share of 60 to 75% in the total budget spent by all CFAs on lobbying and campaigning.
The following table shows the main issues the CFAs were campaigning for in the evaluation period. The issues of ‘access to treatment’ and OVCs in particular are issues that all CFAs are dealing with, including joint activities through SAN! regarding these two issues.
Table 12: Issues the CFAs are lobbying for (indirectly)

	Issues	Strategic partners/networks
NOVIB	universal access to generic ARVs HIV/AIDS in the MDG campaign Price reduction in patented HIV medicines Rights of women living with HIV/AIDS	International community of women living with HIV Third world network Oxfam International
HIVOS	access to treatment ensure optimal facilities for prevention, care and protection of human rights (incl. destigmatisation of PLWHA and sexual minorities)	2 partners at European level:Eurostep and Alliance 2015 (Watch report) 8 partners at subregional level (TAC, WASN, Safaids, Agua Buena, EANNASO, ASICAL, COCASIDA, REDAC+) 3 partners at international level (GNP+, IASSCS, Health Worlwide)
CORDAID	access to treatment access to global funds and transparancy increased attention to OVCs in HIV/AIDS funding and programmes role of the church	WEMOS - Cidse, AIDS funding Network Group
ICCO	access to resources access to treatment role of the church, in particular the rights of PLWHA	WEMOS IBFAN (breastfeeding) Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance
PLAN	Increased attention to OVCs in HIV/AIDS funding and programmes access to pediatric treatment	Plan Europe (is member of the EU action group for OVCs) CABA working group

Remark: the organisation marked have been interview by telephone
The four member CFAs are also participating in a SAN! lobby group that jointly monitors policy decisions in the Netherlands and tries to raise and sustain priority given to HIV/AIDS within Dutch development policies. The SAN! lobby group is engaged in the follow up of the commitments taken by the Dutch government towards the realisation of the MDGs with regard to HIV/AIDS. The lobby group decided in 2005 that there is a need to produce a strategic lobby document for SAN!
Plan Europe (representing Plan Netherlands) is member of the EU Action Group on Orphans and Vulnerable Children¹⁰ in Brussels that tries to lobby the European Commission and (for new financial perspectives) the European Parliament, to improve HIV/AIDS issues in EU development policies and budget lines. They achieved yet some success in order that the European Commission integrated OVCs as a priority issue in the poverty disease budgetline (TB, HIV/AIDS, Malaria) and in their policy document on HIV/AIDS.
The lobby strategy of the CFAs around HIV/AIDS is in particular articulated in the support to global and regional networks or organisations that are specialised in advocacy and lobby, mostly around issues as access to treatment and destigmatisation and the rights of PLWHA. Hence the CFAs have an indirect influence in international agencies like UNAIDS, WHO, Global Fund, etc. and in international conferences. Some of these organisations/networks (of each CFA one) have been interviewed in the scope of this evaluation: Aqua Buena (Hivos), ICW, International Community of Women living with HIV/AIDS (Novib), The Eucumenical Advocacy Alliance (ICCO), Plan Europe (Plan) and Hasap, HIV/AIDS AIDS support Group (within Acord- funded by Cordaid and Novib)¹¹ .
Table 13: Brief overview of the most important issues and targets the “global partners” that have been interviewed are advocating and lobbying

	Some of the issues	Access to decision makers or the policy debate (not exhaustive)	Some successes
Agua Buena	- access to treatment - rights of PLWHA	- WHO - UNAIDS - Inter American HR commission - Global Fund - Pan American Health Organisation	- pushed treatment roll out programmes, - secured access to treatment of hundreds of people - challenged bottlenecks in the slow implementation of the Global Fund programmes
ICW	- access to treatment of women living with HIV/AIDS - sexual and reproductive rights - WPP development with attention to the needs of women	- UNAIDS - Global Coalition on women and AIDS - GNP+ - International AIDS society - ICASO	- needs of women living with HIV/AIDS becomes more recognised - WHO-grant programme: succeeded to set some criteria related to the needs of women living with HIV/AIDS
EAA	- advocate churches and FBO to take up their role in the fight against HIV/AIDS - increase credibility of the role of churches and FBO with international agencies and networks - access to treatment	- UNAIDS - Global Fund	- Churches and FBO are becoming an active player in the field of HIV/AIDS - Some networks and international organisations (TAC in South Africa, GNP+, Global Fund) have started to acknowledge their role and are willing to cooperate more with FBO
Plan Europe	- OVC’s	- European Institutions	- OVCs have been incorporated in the EC policy and budget line.

These organisations/networks are very much specialised, engage highly capacitated people with experience in advocacy and lobby. These organisations/networks have access to decision makers or policy influencers at national, regional and international level. They elaborate solid strategies based on concrete cases and most of them succeed in involving PLWHA in their advocacy and lobby strategy. They give the voiceless a voice. They take cases to court, publish articles and participate or are co-organisers of international HIV/AIDS conference where they facilitate participation of PLWHA. Their strategy is based on concrete stories/cases hence their staff know very well what the needs are of the marginalised people. Most of them are also involved in the enhancement of advocacy and lobby strategies of their members (community based organisations, faith based organisations or NGOs).

The relationship between the CFAs and these global partners goes beyond funding. There is knowledge exchange and collaboration. However the evaluators found that the connection between the counterparts of the CFAs with these global partners is rather poor or unexplored.
The CFAs were also able to integrate HIV/AIDS into the public awareness raising activities and development education. The following table shows the HIV/AIDS-related public awareness activities that were funded by the 5 CFAs between 2001 and 2004 (details in table 3 in annex).
Table 14: Financial overview of HIV/AIDS-related public awareness activities (1) in the Netherlands (or Europe), funded by the five CFAs in the period 2001-2004

Name of public awareness program	Budget 2001 Euro	Budget 2002 Euro	Budget 2003 Euro	Budget 2004 Euro
ICCO
Totals for ICCO % to total of 5 CFAs	90,700.00 21.94%	179,100.00 31.46%	90,700.00 17.21%	150,700.00 16.95%
NOVIB
Totals for NOVIB % to total of 5 CFAs	91,000.00 22.00%	112,000.00 19.67%	92,000.00 17.46%	121,000.00 13.61%
CORDAID
Totals for CORDAID % to total of 5 CFAs	141,000.00 34.10%	141,000.00 24.76%	241,000.00 45.73%	291,000.00 32.73%
HIVOS
Totals for HIVOS % to total of 5 CFAs	90,756.00 21.95%	124,756.00 21.92%	90,757.00 17.22%	282,347.14 31.76%
PLAN
Totals for PLAN % to total of 5 CFAs	-	12,500.00 2.20%	12,500.00 2.37%	44,082.00 4.96%
Totals for 5 CFAs	413,456.00	569,356.00	526,957.00	889,129.14

Remark: Public awareness activities executed by the CFAs in the Netherlands (or within Europe). ‘Ad hoc’ activities have also been added to the amounts (meaning not integrated in a programme in particular but for example events around 1^st of December).
The total budget invested in public awareness campaigns has also increased and doubled in the total amount committed by the 5 CFAs in 2004 as compared to 2001.