Global Inter Agency Task Team on HIV and Young People Mary Otieno, PhD, MPH, MA Senior Technical Adviser, HIV/AIDS HIV/A

1. Global Inter Agency Task Team on HIV and Young People • Mary Otieno, PhD, MPH, MA • Senior Technical Adviser, HIV/AIDS • HIV/AIDS Branch/TD • UNFPA New York UNAIDS

2. Background information on coordination of YP • In 2001-UNFPA Executive Board requests the Fund to take a more visible leadership role in HIV prevention especially among young people. • Later that year, UNFPA designated as the UNAIDS convening agency for young people by the UNAIDS Committee of Cosponsoring Organizations (CCOs). • In 2005 -the Global Task Team recommendations- UNFPA designated as the Lead Agency for Young People out of school • UNFPA chairs the Global Interagency Task Team on HIV and Young People (IATT/YP), a mechanism to ensure common policy advise and strategic guidance UNAIDS

3. Original IATT on Young People and HIV Members • UNICEF (UN Children’s Fund) • UNDP (UN Development Programme) • UNFPA (UN Population Fund) • UNDCP (UN Drug Control Programme) • ILO (International Labour Organization) • UNESCO (UN Education,Scientific and Cultural Organization) • WHO (World Health Organization) • World Bank • World Food Programme (WFP) • UNHCR (UN High Commission on Refugees), • UNAIDS Secretariat

4. Collaboration and coordination on HIV/AIDS and young people had produced important results However, the current programme of work among UNAIDS Cosponsors on HIV and young people required review and further strengthening Deputy Executive Directors’ Meeting-25 May 2007 NY UNAIDS

5. Develop a more explicit division of labour on young people within the existing UN technical support Division of Labour 2. Reconstruct and expand the composition of the current interagency task team on young people 3. Identify and document good practices ( in coordination) already underway in countries  Actions for IATT/YP UNAIDS

6. Terms of Reference- IATT/YP • Goal :To foster a joint accelerated, harmonized and expanded global, regional and country-level response UNAIDS

7. Objectives. • To advocate with key global, regional and country level partners a harmonized approach to ‘knowing the epidemic’ and scaling up HIV interventions for young people – particularly - adolescents and young people most at risk and vulnerable to HIV infection • To build the capacity of Joint UN Teams on AIDS and/or Technical Working Groups on AIDS and partners at country level to scale up HIV prevention • To promote collaboration and harmonisation within and across organisations, for more effective response to the AIDS epidemic UNAIDS

8. Objectives cont. • To support and broaden networking and collaboration amongst stakeholders, in order to galvanize the international community and mobilize resources • To identify, disseminate, and advocate for gender and rights based good practices in, and evidence-informed approaches to, HIV programming for and with young people; and • To support global/regional initiatives on HIV and young people organized by UN system organizations and other key partners UNAIDS

9. New Members as of May 2008 • Alliance of Youth CEOs (currently represented by World YWCA) • Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS (GYCA) • World AIDS Campaign (WAC) • AFRIYAN • Family Health International (FHI) • Euro-Asia Harm Reduction Network • Macro International • Johns Hopkins University • USAID

10. Actions to improve coordination and accelerating response on HIV Prevention among Young People –IATT Deliverables • First eversystematic review in developing countries of what works to prevent HIV infection among young people-SRG –led by WHO- (2006) • Creation of Technical Support Group led by UNICEF for coordinated UN and partner response on MARA-(2006)-now under MARYP WG • Developed Global Guidance briefs on HIV Interventions for Young people–led by UNFPA (2008) • Developed a more explicit division of labour on young people -sent to RCs and UCCs in May 2008 • IATT expanded to include non-UN members- currently 20 members

11. IATT Common Programming Tools

12. 2008 Joint Activities • Review and synthesis of secondary data (UNGASS reports, DHS, etc) to determine progress on core indicators-HLSP • Documenting best practices on coordination of HIV and young people at country level • Implementing the recommendations from the consultations on the Technical Support Group (TSG) on Most-at-Risk- young people-currently under the MARYP Working Group • Launched The Global Guidance Briefs at ICASA • Sessions at the IAC, Mexico City UNAIDS

13. Progress and challenges • TOR and Work plan developed and agreed upon • UNFPA and UNICEF had a brainstorming meeting on how to proceed- and will work with UNFPA’s resource mobilization unit to assist • Challenges: • Initial facilitator withdrew and UNFPA currently facilitates the working group in addition to the Programmatic and Technical Guidance WG and coordination of the IATT • Only three members- UNICEF and GYCA (GYCA facilitates the Advocacy WG) • Need more members to join UNAIDS

14. Unified Budget and Work plan (UBW) 2010 - 2011 • UBW is a unique instrument in the United Nations system which has united the UN family in the fight against AIDS. • Serves as a joint budget and work plan of the 10 UNAIDS Cosponsors and the UNAIDS Secretariat, • Biennial design allows for continual evolution and flexibility to meet the constantly changing demands of the response to HIV at global, regional and country levels. • Development of the 2010-2011 UBW has occurred in the context of the global economic downturn, and provides for stable funding for the Joint Programme in the next biennium. UNAIDS

15. Objectives for 2010 – 2011 UBW • Universal Access as the unifying theme and common platform • Seeks to intensify assistance to countries and other partners where progress towards universal access is lagging. • Accelerating progress by enhancing effectiveness and impact • Highlights the need to use funding as effectively as possible to optimize impact • Emphasizing results at country level • Will intensify its programmatic and advocacy emphasis on strengthening national ownership, responsibility and accountability. • Performance monitoring and accountability • Specifies what each Cosponsor or the Secretariat will be responsible for and how this will be monitored. UNAIDS

16. UBW Action Agenda for Universal Access • Preventing mothers from dying and babies becoming infected with HIV. • Ensuring people living with HIV receive treatment • Ending TB deaths among people living with HIV. • Protecting drug users from becoming infected with HIV • Removing punitive laws, policies and practices, stigma and discrimination that block effective responses to AIDS • Eliminating violence against women and girls • Making young people count • Enhancing social protection for all. UNAIDS

17. Budget for UBW 2010 - 2011 UNAIDS

18. What we would like to achieve during this meeting: • To review the implementation of 2008 Task Team activities • To improve collaboration between global and regional teams • Define and confirm IATT deliverables for 2009 • To Agree on key priority areas for 2010-2011 • Determine how together we could help to accelerate the response