Susana T. Fried Senior Gender/HIV Advisor Bureau for Development Policy UNDP New York Two tools to support mainstreaming gender into national HIV strategies and plans: UNDP and UNAIDS

What is Gender Mainstreaming? Goes beyond adding a women’s “component” or gender equality “component” Builds on an understanding of gender that encompasses gender, sexual orientation and gender identity as these relate to HIV in each specific context Call for mainstreaming gender analyses and perspectives into all stages of strategies, policies, and programming. The ultimate goal is to achieve gender equality, but good mainstreaming requires good information

The UNDP Roadmap

What is the Roadmap? A step-by-step guide to mainstreaming gender into national HIV strategies and plans A tool for government, civil society to address multi-dimensional issues in national HIV efforts Designed to align with other tools on gender & HIV

1: Planning the Process 2: Analysis & Preparation 3: Strategy & Work Plan 4: Participating in the Planning Process 5: M&E Plan: How Changes will be Evaluated 6: Finalize & Implement NSP GOALS & PARTICIPATION GAPS ANALYSE HIV DATA BUDGET RESULTS PARTICIPATION DATA

5: Monitoring and Evaluation 6: Finalise and use NSP 1: Planning the Process 2: Analysis and Preparation 3: Strategy and Work Plan 4: Participating in the Formal Planning Process

Stage 5: Monitoring and Evaluation Monitoring with Supporting Data Allows for Continuous Measurement of Targets and Resource Allocation and requires good indicators Sex-disaggregated baseline information, follow up data, recommendations for gaps Sex-disaggregated Gender/HIV output, outcome and results indicators to track progress, gaps, barriers Gender-Sensitive Evaluation Provides Knowledge and Information about Effective Strategies and Limitations and Learning Going Forward Gender-sensitive evaluation framework to track outputs, outcomes and results OUTPUT

Supporting Tools

General tools for all stages: Ten Overarching Strategies to Advance a Gender Sensitive HIV Response Tools for Planning the Process: Model Terms of Reference: Gender Consultant Model Terms of Reference: Inter-Ministerial Steering Committee Model Terms of Reference: Gender and HIV Technical Working Group

Tools for Analysis, Strategy and Work Plan: UNAIDS Gender Assessment Tool Gender Mainstreaming Checklist Steps in the Formulation of the NSP Core Components for Formulating a Gender-Responsive HIV budget Components for Assessing Gender-Responsiveness of Budgets Tools for Monitoring and Evaluation: Monitoring and Evaluation Tool Monitoring and Evaluation Organization Framework

THE NEED FOR A GENDER ASSESSMENT TOOL?  Strategic planning processes often lack sufficient data on the epidemic, context and response from a gender perspective  Planning and budgeting processes are not gender sensitive, failing to meet the needs and rights of women in all their diversity.

The tool assists countries to  Improve quality of data to inform the national strategic planning process.  Position gender equality and violence in the “strategic investment” discussion  Apply a modular approach, building on already available information, to allow flexibility as per local context  Uses questions to identify remaining gaps in information.

ASSESSMENT TOOL OVERVIEW

VALUE OF THE GENDER ASSESSMENT TOOL?  Provides guidance for a more effective, systematic and standardised gender with a systematic set of steps to examine the gender-sensitivity of the HIV response.  Supports learning the extent to which the national response acts on gender inequality as a key determinant of HIV and ensure that gender equality is a goal of the national HIV response.  Can be used in conjunction with the Roadmap to support countries to fully engage in the strategy planning, development and implementation process

UNAIDS and partners’ “tool-kit” On course (planning and mainstreaming) Assessment tool (gender audit of national HIV response) Athena/HEARD (policy analysis tool) What works for women and girls (compendium of evidence on what works in peer-reviewed literature) Tools on engaging men and boys (UNFPA, Sonke) GBV/HIV indicators (forthcoming) GBV/HIV programming guide (forthcoming)