Promising Practices to Build HR Capacity in HIV Strategic Information

The resource document “Promising Practices to Build Human Resources Capacity in HIV Strategic Information,” developed by the Capacity Project with support from USAID and the PEPFAR Monitoring and Evaluation Technical Working Group, is now available online.

Excerpt: Promising Practices to Build Human Resources Capacity in HIV Strategic Information
Countries addressing HIV epidemics must first lay the cornerstone for evidence-based planning and decision-making by gathering strategic information (SI) from national monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems. While national governments and development partners have made significant progress towards building national HIV M&E systems to support an effective and efficient response to HIV, few countries have the human resources needed to comprehensively monitor and evaluate HIV programs. Building national SI/M&E capacity requires supportive human resources for health policies, organizational and leadership development and individual technical capacity development.

Upon request from the PEPFAR M&E Technical Working Group, the Capacity Project identified and documented promising practices to plan, develop and support national human resources in HIV-related SI/M&E. This compilation of promising approaches from a wide range of countries adds to recent global M&E system strengthening guidance by the UNAIDS Monitoring and Evaluation Research Group (MERG) and other groups and is intended for use in the creation of country plans to strengthen the capacity of the workforce to support a fully functional, national M&E system to ensure strategic information for HIV/AIDS programming. Read more…

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