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Mitigating HIV/AIDS Impact on Education Systems: Planning and Management Checklist

Mitigating HIV/AIDS Impact on Education Systems: Planning and Management Checklist. Peter Badcock-Walters MTT 2004 Winter School Sica’s Conference Centre, Durban 10 August 2004 Funded and Supported by USAID. Background.

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Mitigating HIV/AIDS Impact on Education Systems: Planning and Management Checklist

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  1. Mitigating HIV/AIDS Impact on Education Systems:Planning and Management Checklist Peter Badcock-Walters MTT 2004 Winter School Sica’s Conference Centre, Durban 10 August 2004 Funded and Supported by USAID

  2. Background • Growing acknowledgement that HIV/AIDS is a systemic management problem for education and that response must: • be located within the system at every level, and • address issues of prevention, treatment, care and support and mitigation – including workplace issues and response management; • Many MoEs have initiated response but often limited to prevention, treatment and care, without attention to sector policy or comprehensive planning and management; • Need for a flexible strategic response framework to guide such policy and action plan development and a checklist of issues requiring attention.

  3. Key Points of Departure • HIV/AIDS is a development issue and one of the largest management challenges facing education; • The primary impact of HIV/AIDS is to increase the scale of existing systemic and management problems in education; • Lack of reliable data makes it difficult to know where ‘routine’ system problems stop and HIV/AIDS systemic erosion starts; • Attrition, service ratios, enrolment, drop-out and transition rates, quality, output and budgeting will all be adversely affected.

  4. Key Themes • Growing understanding that a comprehensive response is required which addresses three key themes: • Prevention • Treatment, Care and Support • Mitigation: a) Workplace issues b) Management of the response • MoEs have also recognised that HIV/AIDS response must be sustainable over the long term and must: • Be integrated into every level of the education management system and involve all sectoral partners, and • Be within the means of the recurrent education budget, irrespective of short-term donor or other funding.

  5. Systemic Problem & Response • Increasing systemic erosion and linked management problems will compromise ability to meet EFA, UNGASS and other international goals • Necessary to move planning beyond narrow sectoral focus on prevention, treatment, care and support, and accepts HIV/AIDS as long-term, sector-wide management problem; • Systemic response requires comprehensive, prioritized plan of action, from assessment and sector policy development, to decentralised planning and implementation; • Must be based on dependable data, monitoring, evaluation and regular review.

  6. AIDS: Opportunity in Crisis • In every aspect of planning and management, it should be remembered that while HIV/AIDS is a long-term human and development catastrophe, it is also a unique opportunity to address any number of long-standing problems in the structure and function of education; • In every step of the mitigation response we should be asking ourselves what opportunities this action provides for concomitant system improvement or reform; • Planners and managers mustproactively look for system reform synergies and promote them.

  7. Strategic Response Framework • Need for Strategic Response Framework (SRF) to contextualize and locate systemic response; • SRF flexibility required to accommodate country system diversity and recognize progress made in planning/initiating sector HIV/AIDS programs; • Spans 3 development phases, which include: • Understanding Impact (assessing, benchmarking and measuring impact); • Planning Mitigation (action planning and costing prioritized activities required to mitigate impact); • Implementation, Monitoring & Review (initiating and implementing planned activity, monitoring progress and reporting outcomes and response).

  8. Planning & Management Checklist: • SRF provides the ‘big picture’ within which a comprehensive checklist of action phases and steps can be located; • Allows MoEs to recognize achievements as well as missing or incomplete activities to date, and plan rationally for the future; • Checklist of steps can be customized to MoE requirements to prioritize strategically important steps and need not be sequential; • Resultant framework and checklist of steps meets donor need for prioritized and achievable plans, implementation, monitoring and reporting; • 3 Phases and 12 steps include:

  9. Phase One:Understanding Impact • STEP ONE:HIV/AIDS Situation Analysis, Response Review and Impact Assessment– • Identify and agree key HIV/AIDS impact and vulnerability indicators; • Develop objectives and TOR for impact assessment/activity review; • Commission independent sector impact assessment/activity review; or • Undertake interactive rapid sector appraisal/activity review; • Consider findings and establish impact and activity benchmarks.

  10. Phase One:Understanding Impact • STEP TWO: Management Information and Research Review– • Review MoE data history, quality and reliability; • Review and audit data systems/capacity, including collection, access to HIV/AIDS impact indicators, analysis and decision support systems; • Review other sector data/information sources; • Review education sector research agendas inside and outside MoE; • Aggregate all available data/information to provide single consolidated source and develop preliminary proposals for system reform and extension; • Develop national, prioritized research agenda.

  11. Phase One:Understanding Impact • STEP THREE: Education Sector HIV/AIDS Policy and Regulation Audit – • Review national HIV/AIDS policy framework and implications for education sector policy development; • Review education sector HIV/AIDS policy where it exists, and check coverage of Prevention, Treatment, Care and Support and Mitigation, including workplace and management issues; • Review/audit relevant MoE legal procedures and regulations and identify shortcomings and issues for policy review; • Advocate to create ‘champions’ for education sector HIV/AIDS policy development and dissemination.

  12. Phase One:Understanding Impact • STEP FOUR: Education Sector Capacity Audit – • Review national and sub-national MoE systems and HR capacity at all levels to respond to and manage HIV/AIDS impact; • Review education sector capacity and program coverage, cooperation agreements and protocols with national and international development partners; • Identify and estimate financial resource availability to support HIV/AIDS response and agree access and other protocols; • Integrate capacity audit, impact assessment/sector appraisal, data and policy information to provide strategic overview for decision-making.

  13. Phase Two: Planning Mitigation • STEP FIVE: Establish HIV/AIDS Management Unit (HAMU) – • Identify education sector needs for full time coordination structure (HAMU) through policy development and strategic planning process; • Develop sectoral agreement on national and sub-national form, function, structure and commitment of permanent/dedicated HAMU; • Establish HAMU with appropriately high levels of access and reporting; • Commit to adequate capital and recurrent resources to equip and sustain HAMU in long-term; • Ensure commitment and access to appropriate, regular training and support for HAMU personnel.

  14. Phase Two: Planning Mitigation • STEP SIX: Education Sector HIV/AIDS Policy Development – • Agree guiding principles, goals and objectives for adaptive education sector HIV/AIDS policy; • Develop draft education sector HIV/AIDS policy in accordance with agreed principles and national/ international policy frameworks and guidelines; • Address key policy themes of Prevention, Treatment, Care and Support and Mitigation, with special attention to workplace issues and managing the response; • Agree and entrench process for regular policy review and adaptation based on implementation experience at national and decentralized levels.

  15. Phase Two: Planning Mitigation • STEP SEVEN: National HIV/AIDS Policy Implementation Planning – • Develop prioritised HIV/AIDS policy implementation planning framework by goal and objective; • Segment plan by policy theme to cover Prevention, Treatment, care and Support and Mitigation; • Address legal issues and development of enforceable regulations to give effect to policy implementation; • Ensure planning framework includes: • capacity building for effective HIV/AIDS response at all levels of the system; • system review and reform to improve functional efficiency.

  16. Phase Two: Planning Mitigation • STEP EIGHT: Decentralized HIV/AIDS Policy Implementation Planning – • Locate sub-national planning within national implementation planning principles and framework; • Develop specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, time-bound plans for sub-national levels reflecting regional variance, needs and priorities; • Address reality check of regional/district constraints and difficulties and factor these in planning; • Consolidate decentralized plans to update and strengthen national education sector framework.

  17. Phase Two: Planning Mitigation • STEP NINE: Implementation Budgeting and Resource Development – • Cost national/sub-national implementation plans over 5 years, with defensible assumptions; • Analyze MoE capital and recurrent budget availability and confirm access protocols; • Confirm external/donor resource availability; • Develop partnership and program delivery database to support coordination and identify available country TA capacity; • Hold donor conference to present comprehensive, costed education sector HIV/AIDS policy implementation plan to mobilize external resources.

  18. Phase Three: Implementation, Monitoring & Review • STEP TEN: Monitoring and Evaluation – • Monitor quantitative implementation of policy at all levels, against agreed target dates and outputs; • Monitor HIV/AIDS impact indicators via national and sub-national data capture and analysis; • Monitor system and sector capacity in relation to observed management and delivery; • Establish and evaluate qualitative indicators of policy implementation success against agreed targets and outputs; • Design and introduce M&E and supplementary data capture systems to support this activity.

  19. Phase Three: Implementation, Monitoring & Review • STEP ELEVEN: Reporting – • Report progress/outcomes of education sector HIV/AIDS policy implementation at agreed intervals to all national and international constituencies, stakeholders and development partners.

  20. Phase Three: Implementation, Monitoring & Review • STEP TWELVE: PolicyImplementation Review – • Convene inclusive annual HIV/AIDS policy and implementation strategy review and report progress, performance and vulnerability assessment; • Revise/adapt national and sub-national strategies and implementation activities, based on impact indicators, implementation monitoring, evaluation and reporting; • Develop/publish revised implementation plans for the following year, based on review/adaptation of revised targets, priorities and goals; • Assure education stakeholders/development partners of effective M&E and implementation planning.

  21. MTT Support Tools • A Resource Kit of ‘tools’ has been developed to support this 12-step process; • Ownership of this, with training, is transferred to the MoE and its sector partners. Includes: • Rapid Appraisal Framework/Assessment TORs • Data Analysis Criteria and HIV/AIDS Impact Indicators • Policy Development Framework/Country Samples • Prioritised Implementation Planning Templates • Budget Planning & Implementation Costing Tools • Partnership/Program Database Template • District Education Management & Monitoring Information Systems (DEMMIS) • Monitoring and Evaluation Options • Educator Mortality/Attrition Research Models & Templates • Educator Demand & Supply Modelling

  22. Summary • No MoE has completed every one of these steps but several have made great strides and serve as international exemplars of good practice; • Issue is recognition of what could and should be done and prioritization of these activities to suit local conditions and resource constraints; • Checklist should guide planning, confirm commitment to EFA & mobilize donor support; • MoEs committed to action must establish full-time coordinating and management structures to roll-out and monitor HIV/AIDS mitigation plans; • Regular monitoring & review means that response will require continuous coordination and be a routine, day-to-day activity of every manager.

  23. Exercise 1: Checklist Review • 30 minutes: No presentation required at this point; • Method: Break into country groups & use Checklist to review your MoE accomplishments to date; • Against each item, put a tick if you collectively feel that the step has been comprehensively dealt with and is complete; • If not, estimate the % achievement against each item – in other words, if your MoE is half-way to completing this step, put 50% in the column; • On completion, put Checklist in your file to use as a point of reference throughout the course.

  24. Exercise 2: Using the Checklist • 30 minutes: 3 selected groups will have 5 mins each to present 5-point plan for strategic use of the Checklist and its likely impact on MoE decision-makers; • Method: In country groups, consider strategic use of this Checklist within MoE to alert decision makers to need for comprehensive approach & identify issues yet to be tackled; • Also consider what affect this might have and how you might capitalize on this to advance the mitigation agenda.

  25. Mitigating HIV/AIDS Impact on Education SystemsPlanning and Management Checklist WEBSITE: www.mttaids.com CONTACT: peterbw@eastcoast.co.za

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