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JOINT ANNUAL WORK PLAN 2009 FOR THE JOINT TEAM ON AIDS - SOUTH AFRICA

HIV and AIDS and STI National Strategic Plan (2007-2011) Primary Aims
  • Reduce the rate of new HIV infections by 50% by 2011.
  • Reduce the impact of HIV and AIDS on individuals, families, communities and society by expanding access to appropriate treatment, care and support to 80% of all HIV positive people and their families by 2011.

UNDAF Outcome 5:
  • Poverty eradication interventions intensified

UNDAF Joint Country Programme Outcomes 3 & 6:
  • Capacity of Government to implement the HIV and AIDS comprehensive plan supported
  • The capacity of the national health system to deliver quality service improved and expanded

Joint UN Plan of Support Outcome 1:
  • Strengthened national capacity to achieve Universal Access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support in the framework of the three "ones" principle

 

Summary

The Government of South Africa (GOSA) and the UN Evaluation Group (UNEG) conducted a joint evaluation exercise in 2008-09 to review the GOSA-UN collaboration and partnership and to come up with recommendations for transforming the relationship to a strategic level engagement, taking into account the country’s middle income status, its relatively well developed national capacity, and the knowledge and experience of the UN.

South Africa has a unique status and characteristics in that it is considered a middle income country and yet it has got two economies: one represented by characteristics of the developed countries, with high per capita income and sophisticated and advance infra-structure and the second economy, less developed with the majority of the population , but with a per capita income of a developing country. The predicament of the UN system is whether to be involved in development cooperation in a country considered to be middle-income based on the characteristics of its first economy or not.

The UNEG report recommended that the GOSA-UN relationship should be strategic taking into account the unique position of South Africa. It was generally felt that such a partnership should revolve around the provision of high-end technical and policy advisory services in areas that the UN System has comparative advantage based on its long term experience and involvement in technical and development cooperation and in order to optimise the benefits that South Africa can derive from the expertise available within the UN System. It is in this context that this Umbrella project is being proposed to facilitate a UN repositioning exercise through a series of consultations with key national departments, the civil society, think tanks and the academia. In particular, the UNDP Country Office in South Africa is taking the above initiative to engage the Government and other stakeholders in consultative discussions with a view to transforming itself(UNDP) into a knowledge hub and centere of excellence providing the country and other stakeholders, with strategic policy support rather than its traditional technical cooperation  project support mechanism which may not be adequate for the relationship with GOSA. The latter is also a response to the UNEG recommendation that the UNDP Country Office itself needs to be revamped to better respond to the unique needs of South Africa, especially at up-stream levels.

To date, a strategic framework for a new programme focussing on upstream strategic areas has been developed and endorsed by government. An AWP is being finalised for signature in January 2011. A new resource mobilisation strategy is being prepared to fully implement the new programme.

 

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