Regional Technical Support Hub for
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
International HIV/AIDS Alliance in Ukraine
An Overview: 2008 – 2011
AU Technical Support vision
Established in January 2008 to:
improve access of primarily civil society
organizations to high quality technical
support required to scale up effective national
and regional HIV and AIDS responses [in Eastern
Europe and Central Asia]
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Massive in-country experience and large cadre
of highly qualified in-house and external specialists
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Key Technical Support Recipients
Civil society organisations (including
Alliance Linking Organisations) managing
delivery of services to vulnerable
communities;
 PRs, SRs, and SSRs of GFATM as well as
other donors;
 Regional networks and international
organisations, including UN agencies;
 Governmental agencies that provide
services to key populations.
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Core Technical Competencies
1- Organizational development for largescale comprehensive HIV prevention and
care programmes in concentrated HIV
epidemics, including programmes supported
by the Global Fund;
2 - Monitoring and evaluation;
3 - Services for vulnerable populations (IDU,
SW, MSM, PLWH, street children, prisoners,
uniformed personnel): Evidence-based
participatory development and delivery
1. Large Scale Programme
Development and Implementation
• Assessment
and development of organisational capacities (PR, SR and SSR
levels);
• Technical programme development;
• Management of large and complex programmes;
• Monitoring and evaluation;
• Systems, policies and procedures (finance, administration, HR
management, etc);
• Procurement policies and procedures including those related to subgranting
Where we learned this:
- implementation of USG funded programmes since 2001 and GFATMfunded programmes since 2004;
- first-hand development and implementation of GF Rd6, 9 & 10 in Ukraine;
- financial, technical and other support to over 150 implementing partners
in Ukraine; delivery of GFATM related TS in the Region since 2008
2. Monitoring & Evaluation
System of programmatic M&E, including client-tracking db;
• Development of National and regional M&E systems;
• Sentinel surveillance and behaviour monitoring using RDS, TLS;
• MARPs size estimation;
• M&E capacity building for civil society and governmental service
providers
Where we learned:
- Development of complementary programmatic M&E system for USAID
and GFATM programmes;
- International research on M&E systems;
- Regular bio-behaviour and size estimation studies among MARPs since
2004;
- TS on UNGASS reporting in the region;
- M&E capacity building for GFATM PRs and SRs in Ukraine and globally
(Georgia, India, Malaysia, Moldova, Mongolia, Thailand)
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3. Services for Vulnerable Communities
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Participatory site assessments and site coordination approach;
Comprehensive packages of HIV/STI prevention and care services for
IDU, SW, MSM, PLWH, street children, people in detention, uniformed
personnel;
• Development of effective outreach mechanisms;
• Effective referral systems;
• Segmentation and tailoring services for specific sub-populations e.g.
users of stimulants, younger PWID, women who use drugs, setting
determined patterns of drug use (fishermen and plantation workers in
Malaysia) etc. ;
• Ensuring behavioural impact through effective and sustainable
behavioural change communication mechanisms;
Where we learned:
•implementation of large scale programmes focusing on MARPs since
2001;
•close collaboration with MARPs activists and over 200 frontline service
providers in Ukraine and the region.
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Innovative Programme Development:
IDUs: towards comprehensive menu of services:
 HIV/STI rapid and community based testing,
 HBV diagnostics and vaccination,
 overdose prevention,
 group level interventions for stimulant users,
 services for women who use drugs,
 peer driven interventions,
 sexual and reproductive health services for men and
women who inject drugs,
SW:
 HIV/STI testing and treatment,
 HBV diagnostics,
 peer driven interventions,
 violence prevention programmes,
 SRHR services including female condom programmes and
on-line counseling (e-health),
Community mobilisation, capacity building and
networking
Guides and tools by technical area
Technical area
Topics
Managing large
scale
interventions
incl. GFATM
Financial management
Grant management
Health and non-health procurement
Service delivery
to vulnerable
communities
IDU
SW
MSM
People in detention
Uniformed personnel
Street children
PLWH
Youth
Monitoring and
evaluation,
research and
assesment
M&E
Strategic planning
Programmatic M&E
Available resources by technical
competencies
122 consultants , split by areas and vulnerable groups
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Methods of TS Delivery
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One-to-one, including consultations,
discussion sessions, mentoring, coaching, peer
reviews etc; Includes joint implementation (e.g.
assessment, research and planning);
Collective training and workshops;
Indirect delivery (development of training
tools and resources, distance learning
instruments, ToT and mentoring TS providers);
Exchange visits/study tours;
Conferences
Our Clients
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International HIV/AIDS Alliance, Secretariat
World Bank
MSH/USAID
UN Agencies (Geneva, Moldova, Belarus, Turkmenistan, Russia)
The Global Fund
Soros Foundation, Moldova
Georgian Harm Reduction Network, Georgia
KPMG (USA)
Shell Ukraine
Curatio International Consulting Ltd
Foundation for Development of Ukraine (FDU)
AntiAIDS Association (Kyrgyzstan)
HIV/AIDS Technical Support Facility Southeast Asia & the Pacific, IPPF
Malaysia
JSI Research and Training Institute, Inc.
USAID/The CAPACITY Project
Caribbean HIV/AIDS Alliance
Malaysian AIDS Council
Countries of TS delivery
Countries and number of days
2%
Central Asia countries
4%
Ukraine
20%
35%
Caucasus countries
Moldova
Russia
2%
Belorussia
4%
East Asia and South East Asia
6%
7%
20%
Other: Albania, China, Mongolia,
Thailand, United Kingdom and
Latvia
International projects
Procedures and processes
Phase 1
Contracting:
Phase 2
Delivery
Phase 3
Follow-up and
Evaluation
Procedures and processes
Phase 1 Contracting:
 Receive and revise/develop ToR, workplan,
timeline;
 Circulate ToR among providers and select most
suitable among those available;
 Share providers’ profiles with the Client for
approval;
 Negotiate financial and logistical parameters and
finalise the ToR;
 Conclude agreements with the Client and
providers;
 Input assignment data into TS assignment tracker
Procedures and processes
Phase 2 Delivery:
 Develop and agree logistics and safety
arrangements with Provider and Client;
 Arrange all in-country and international
logistics;
 Carry out and document TS activities;
 Develop assignment report with
recommendations reviewed by the Technical
Review team;
 Deliver the relevant documentation to the
Client
Procedures and processes
Phase 3 Follow-up and Evaluation:
 Submission of invoice to Client;
 Payment to TS Provider;
 Circulate and collect Client’s and TS
Provider’s feedback forms;
 Identify TS management lessons and
learning for the Hub, share thematic
lessons and implement recommendations
and follow-up
Working with Donors and Clients
Procurement Mechanisms
Contract for free TS
delivery
Individual Contract
with identified Parties
Grant
Quality control
Regular training workshops for providers
(GFATM, M&E, organisational
development);
 Development of Technical Support Guides
and tools for TS providers;
 Establishment of associate consultant
support system;
 Evaluation of assignments by the Technical
Review team
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Data Management: Directory of
Providers
Directory of Clients
TS Assignment Tracker
Country
where
the TS
was
provide
d
Kazakh
stan
TS
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Kazakh
Union
of
PLHA,
NGO
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21-29
June
2009
5
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society
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4.
"Proposal
Planning
and
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Name/s
and
type/s
and
nationali
ty/
residenc
e of TS
provider
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Dovbak
hA
TS
Total
provide cost of
r’s daily TS
rate
assignm
ent ($)
500
5000
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