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What’s the Budget?
Where’s the Staff? Moving from Policy to Practice: Women's Health & Rights
The Women Won’t Wait campaign’s new
report calls for substantial, predictable, and sustained funding and staff with
the necessary gender expertise to operationalise policies at the country level
and guarantee integrated health care to better fulfil the rights of all women
and girls.
The
Women Won’t
Wait: End HIV and violence against women and girls. Now Campaign launches What’s the Budget? Where’s
the Staff?: Moving from Policy to Practice, the third in a series of
reports calling for increased recognition of the intersection between violence
against women and girls and HIV across policies, programmes and funding
streams. The three-report series, starting with Show us the Money in
2007 followed by What Gets Measured Matters in 2008, has monitored the
work of five major public institutions in the context of HIV:
- the two
largest multilateral donors, the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and
Malaria (the Global Fund) and the World Bank;
- two of the largest bilateral
donors working to combat the HIV epidemic, the US Government’s President's
Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)
and UK Government’s Department for International Development (DFID);
and
- the UN’s global agenda-setting
agency on HIV&AIDS, the United Nations Joint Programme on AIDS, UNAIDS.
We
take note of some of the distinct progress made by several of these
institutions, particularly UNAIDS and the Global Fund and the US Office of the
Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC), which is responsible for managing the
implementation of PEPFAR. In What’s the budget? Where’s the staff?, we
see that these agencies are showing increased attention to this intersection in
their policies, funding priorities and guidelines. Indeed, this renewed and
more substantial attention paid to violence against women and HIV is evidence
of the success of women’s movements and women’s rights advocates to date,
including the Women Won’t Wait Campaign. What remains to be seen, however, is
how these policies will be transformed into practice.
We
are now at a juncture where the institutions lagging behind need to step up and
devote the necessary resources (human and financial) to the development of
policies that place violence against women and gender inequality at the centre
of any HIV response. Moreover, policy-level recognition will be meaningless if
it remains only on paper and is not transformed into concrete, measureable and
resourced programming that advances women’s human rights through an integrated,
multi-sector approach to violence against women and HIV.
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Link
to Full AWID Article on Report: http://www.awid.org/Issues-and-Analysis/Library/A-New-Resource-Women-Won-t-Wait-Campaign-What-s-the-Budget-Where-s-the-Staff-Moving-from-Policy-to-Practice
The Women Won’t Wait campaign’s new report calls for
substantial, predictable, and sustained funding and staff with the necessary
gender expertise to operationalise policies at the country level and guarantee
integrated health care to better fulfil the rights of all women and girls.
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