AIDS Accountability Scorecard
on Women 2009
The AIDS Accountability Scorecard on Women includes assessment of six key elements required for an effective national response for women, based on the latest data on progress reported by countries against the core indicators used for monitoring the United Nations 2001 Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS.
The six elements are:
Data Collection
Gender Mainstreaming
Policy and
Legal Environment
National Programmes
Knowledge and
Behaviour
Impact
The Scorecard also analyzes information provided by governments in their narrative reporting.
The final Scorecard element is a composite score that rates the completeness of reporting by countries across both the six key elements and the narrative reports: Women Reporting Index
How are
the scores calculated?
Under each element, countries are given a score for reporting sex-disaggregated data on women and responding to relevant questions in the UNAIDS monitoring tool, selected to measure the quality of their response in that area. These scores are then aggregated and expressed in grades, from A (very good) to E (very poor). Countries that fail to submit the required data for one or more of the constituent indicators or questions for an element receive a lower score for that element. If countries report none of the relevant data for an element, this is noted as ‘no data’. The Scorecard takes into account differences in reporting requirements for countries depending on their epidemiological type.
The Women Reporting Index provides an additional qualitative characterization of the composite scores generated by countries. Countries receiving an A or B grade are characterized as responsive, to the extent that they have reported the data required to implement an effective response to the needs of women in the context of AIDS. Countries receiving a C or D grade are characterized as aware, to the extent that the quality of their reporting shows an awareness of the need to monitor and report data specific to women, even if in practice they do not always do so systematically. Countries receiving an E grade are characterized as unfocused on women’s needs: these countries have either failed to acknowledge women’s particular vulnerabilities to HIV infection and the obstacles that many experience in trying to access treatment, care and prevention services, or have failed to report on these aspects. Countries that have not reported on any aspects of their AIDS response are noted as having provided ‘no data’ (ND).