Title: National AIDS councils. Monitoring and evaluation operations manual.

POPLINE Document Number: 276671

Corporate Author(s):

Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS [UNAIDS]
World Bank

Source citation:

Geneva, Switzerland, UNAIDS, 2002 Aug. [44] p. (UNAIDS/02.47E)

Abstract:

HIV/AIDS is the leading cause of death in sub-Saharan Africa. More than 18 million Africans have died, more than 12 million African children have been orphaned because of AIDS, and another 28 million Africans are living with the virus today, the vast majority of them in the prime of their lives as workers and parents. Life expectancy is dropping, family incomes are being decimated, and agricultural and industrial efficiency is declining because of the epidemic. African nations and the international community have recognized how disastrous the epidemic is to the African continent, and have concluded that past efforts to wage war against the virus have failed because: (i) there was insufficient commitment and leadership to fight the epidemic among nations both inside and outside the continent; (ii) the war was being waged with too few human and financial resources; (iii) those programmes that were effective, often undertaken by civil society organizations, were rarely scaled up; (iv) resources were not reaching communities; and (v) programmes were too narrowly focused on the health sector. (excerpt)

Keywords:

Global
Manual
Evaluation Report
Operations Research
Monitoring
Management
Delivery of Health Care
Health Services
Program Evaluation
Capacity Building
Evaluation
Programs
Organization and Administration
Research Methodology
Health
Program Sustainability