Where are we in ACS at Country Level

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Where are we in ACS at Country Level?

• Thaddeus Pennas
• Stop TB Partnership Secretariat

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HistoryMeetings / Trainings

• HBC Needs Assessment 2002
• Cancun Consultation
• Johannesburg
• Geneva Working Group Meeting (Feb 05)
• EURO needs assessment workshop (Jan '05)
• ACS/GFATM training workshop (Cairo '05)
• AMRO need assessment workshop (Santa Cruz '05)
• Mexico City Sub Group Meeting
• Global Plan 2 outline drafted
• ACS Sub-Group Workplan drafted

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Recommendations for ActionCancun July 2003

• Recommendations
• Strengthen Stop TB A-C Team
• Create ACS-WG
• Improve Capacity
• Develop ACS Strategy
• Develop ME indicators
• Technical Assistance to HBC's
• Document Best Practices
• Engage NTP's
• Enable patient associations

• Actions
• Focal points created and trained
• ACS-WG formed
• 10 regional based consultants trained
• ACS strategy created
• Draft indicators ready
• TA structure created
• Peru, Vietnam and others
• NTP's engagedNeeds Assessed
• TBTV, LHL, STB focal point

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Stop TB Partnership Secretariat Advocacy and
Communications Team A diagram of interrelated
work streams, tools and processes (level
1) Strategic Communication Initiative
A/C Working Group Goal Communications accepted
as an integral part of the DOTS Strategy
Development of Communication Pedagogy
Goal Evidence driven ACS workplans targeting
sustainable behavioral change at the lowest
organizational level designed to achieve
measurable results
Objective Development and usage of technically
sound, integrated, sustainable and cost
effective communication workplans and
interventions for ACS
Technical Support
Monitoring and Evaluation
Goal Formation of country-level communication
partnerships/task forces to design
guide/implement communication interventions
Partnership building/training/ support
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Geneva Working Group Meeting Feb. 2005

• Working Group Launched
• Sub Group meeting
• Review status of ACS country level
• Recommended creation of ACS workplan
• Input to initial Global Plan 2 outline
• Agreement that ACS needs to be better defined.

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On the Horizon

• EMRO Training Workshop (Pakistan '05)
• Publish ACS Guidelines and Frameworks
• Global Plan 2
• ACS WG 5 year work plan
• SEARO NTP mini workshop (Dec '05)
• Technical Assistance for GFATM round 5 grantees
  and others
• AFRO needs assessment workshop (Jan '06)
• SEARO need assessment workshop (07)
• GFATM round 6 support
• ACS country and regional focal points