Our impact in 2017 Gemma Taylor/Alliance 2016 Bold leadership and powerful community action to end AIDS
1.6 million people provided with or linked to HIV treatment, care and support 900,000 people from key populations reached with HIV prevention services In 36 countries the Alliance is playing a role in holding governments to account in enabling universal access to services, increasing domestic financing of the national HIV response, and upholding human rights 2 million people reached with integrated HIV and sexual and reproductive health and rights services 600,000 people reached by programmes addressing stigma, discrimination and social exclusion 85% of community-based organisations who received a grant through the Alliance achieved their programmatic and financial targets
The Alliance played an important leadership role in 2017, championing neglected areas of the HIV response, such as HIV prevention. We were also in the vanguard of movements such as SheDecides, and in challenging harmful policies, including the Global Gag Rule. In a context of diminishing funding, and attacks on civil society and human rights, we worked in partnership to amplify the voices of the most marginalised communities. Through community action, we strived to ensure that no one is left behind in our collective efforts to achieve global goals on health, gender equality and justice.
Result 1 Healthy people Increase access to HIV and health programmes Alliance 2017 We reached over 200,000 people from key populations in Africa with HIV prevention services 14% more than in 2016. This continues the steady increase since the beginning of our strategy in 2013, which is all the more remarkable given the increasingly hostile policy environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in Africa. Our portfolio of projects under the Resilient, Empowered Adolescents and Young people (READY) umbrella is ensuring adolescents and young people receive sexual and reproductive health and HIV services in eastern, central and southern Africa. These projects not only provide and improve the quality of youth-friendly services, but foster young people s leadership in the HIV response. In addition to extending service outreach, we also invested in advocacy to intensify efforts on HIV prevention. In our role as an active member and contributor to the Global HIV Prevention Coalition, we worked with civil society activists from ten fasttrack countries, building their capacity to participate in their respective national prevention roadmaps. Key populations reached with prevention services 295,700 271,700 295,200 Being a CATS [Community Adolescent Treatment Supporter] has added so much to my life. When I help people living with HIV I feel proud. Ntsiki, 20 years old, Swaziland. CATS provide peer-to-peer information, counselling and support to adolescents and young people living with HIV in our READY+ programme.
Result 2 Stronger health and community systems Support community-based organisations to be effective and connected elements of health systems Arkar Kyaw/Alliance 2016 26 Linking Organisations have made sustained organisational improvements since 2013, catalysed by the Alliance accreditation system. This includes improving organisational capacity, governance and programme quality as a result of Alliance capacity building and organisational development initiatives. The accreditation process is also an opportunity for south-to-south learning, especially through peer review visits. In 2017 staff from nine Linking Organisation took part in an accreditation visit. A decade of groundbreaking work under our SIDA-funded programme KP Connect came to an end in 2017. The programme built the capacity of Alliance Linking Organisations in 10 countries in Africa to engage and work with key populations. The Looking In, Looking Out (LILO) methodology helped catalyse powerful shifts in attitudes towards key populations. Connections between Linking Organisations* in Africa were more personal, more numerous, more diverse, and more direct in 2017 than in 2014 as a result of KP Connect. *SAT and GALZ are implementing partners Before LILO I only understood key populations at a scientific level we fight stigma on a daily basis, yet we are stigmatising people in our personal life, even if it s not intentional. LILO helped me realise I needed to connect at a more emotional level and that s what I did. I have now reached a higher level of appreciation. LILO participant, Cote d Ivoire
Result 3 Inclusive and engaged societies Advocate for HIV, health and human rights Eddy Mokaya/Alliance 2017 The Rapid Response Fund benefitted over 13,000 people, either directly with emergency support or indirectly by mitigating the threat to services that these emergencies pose. The fund responds to crises affecting access to HIV services for men who have sex with men and LGBT people. It has also supported community-based organisations to advocate for improved legal and policy environments for LGBT people. Achievements within the Partnership to Inspire, Transform and Connect the HIV response (PITCH) programme range from the constitutional court in Indonesia rejecting a petition to fast-track criminalisation of LGBT people, to a landmark authorisation by the Ugandan Ministry of Health to Community Health Alliance Uganda (CHAU) and the Ugandan Harm Reduction Network (UHRN) to launch the first ever needle and syringe programme in Uganda. In 25 countries Alliance partners documented and responded to individual cases of violence and discrimination through Emergency response Psychosocial support Legal services When I went to the police [after being attacked] I was further victimised It would be different now, I d know where to go. Kaluso, 28-year-old transgender woman in Malawi, after CHeRA, recipient of Rapid Response Fund grant, turned the superintendent into an ally of LGBT people.
Result 4 Foundations for impact A stronger Alliance partnership that is evidencebased and accountable to communities Corrie Wingate/Alliance 2017 As a global alliance of civil society organisations, Southern leadership and shared responsibility has always been a central driver of the Alliance s approach. In 2017 we reviewed our leadership initiatives for directors and senior managers of Linking Organisations to help us refine our approach to leadership development. We also formed an Alliance Membership Committee, responding to a request from Linking Organisations to be part of decisions regarding suspension and termination of Linking Organisations membership. We made great strides in improving the quality of the Alliance s programming by developing our policies on gender. We developed a good practice guide to gendertransformative HIV programming, embedded a focus on gender in all HIV programming areas in the Alliance accreditation standards and criteria, and produced a guide for Linking Organisations to the Alliance approach to gender equality. The Alliance developed a new monitoring system, Wanda, which we are piloting in PITCH to document progress towards advocacy goals, and in READY+ where young people will be using mobile phones to collect data. The benefits of Wanda include the ability to track people and the services they receive over time, easy entry and analysis of both quantitative and qualitative data, and access of real-time data by project partners.
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