TBHIV Monitoring

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TB/HIV Monitoring Advocacy Project

• Public Health Watch
• Open Society Institute

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Public Health Watch

• Public Health Watch (PHW) seeks to promote
• greater civil society engagement in government
• efforts to fulfill international health
  commitments,
• and in turn to increase national ownership of the
• response to TB, HIV/AIDS, and other diseases.

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Project Mission

• Consistent with the mission of Public Health
  Watch,
• the TB/HIV Monitoring and Advocacy Project seeks
• to increase civil society engagement in
• policymaking efforts around the adoption and
• implementation of collaborative TB/HIV
  activities.

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To achieve this goal, the project will

• Support community-based organizations (CBOs) or
  non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to conduct
  an in-country monitoring exercise to assess the
  need for joint TB/HIV policies and services.
• Support community-led advocacy around the
  findings identified in the monitoring phase.
• Facilitate the participation of community
  activists in global networks to articulate joint
  advocacy objectives and strategies at the
  regional and international policymaking level.

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What is Monitoring?

• Monitoring is defined as assessing the
• effectiveness of a TB/HIV policy or program by
  identifying strengths and weaknesses related to
  both content and implementation, and offering
• recommendations to maintain or improve
  performance.

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Monitoring PhaseOctober 1, 2006 April 1, 2007

• TB/HIV grantees will use a topic-specific
  questionnaire to conduct key informant
  interviews.
• Grantees will submit a completed questionnaire
  and report identifying policy strengths and
  weaknesses and offering recommendations for
  improving the quality and accessibility of joint
  TB/HIV services.
• Based on recommendations, grantees will develop
  advocacy strategies to respond to the gaps
  identified in their research.

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What is Advocacy?

• Advocacy is defined as activism an attempt to
  convince or persuade an audience around a
  particular issue.

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Advocacy Phase

• Grantees will be eligible to receive up to 5,000
  in funding to support 6 months of targeted
  advocacy activities around report findings and
  recommendations.
• Examples of advocacy activities
• Roundtable meetings with policymakers and NGOs
• Media outreach (press releases, journalist
  workshops)
• Workshops (trainings)
• Production and dissemination of treatment
  literacy material or fact sheets
• Public presentations of results at national or
  regional level

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Community-led Advocacy

• By conducting advocacy, grantees will be aiming
• to convince or persuade policymakers and health
• officials to accelerate or improve upon
• implementation of joint TB/HIV programs
• services.

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Project Implementation

• 2006 TB/HIV Grantees will receive ongoing support
  
• from PHW, TAG and the TB/HIV Community
• Advisory Committee (CAC) during grant
• implementation.

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Community Advisory Committee

• The CAC is a group of global TB/HIV advocates
• that provide regional and local TB/HIV expertise
• on grant selection, implementation, training,
• evaluation, and project-related advocacy.

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Role of CAC

• to provide ongoing support to grantees
• to serve as a liaison between project staff and
  grantee
• to conduct site visits and prepare site visit
  reports
• to provide regional/local guidance and resources
  on TB/HIV issues to grantees
• to provide input on project materials (core
  documents grant reports publications)
• to represent the project at selected advocacy
  events.

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• Questions?
• To learn more about PHW, please visit
• www.publichealthwatch.info