RENEWAL 3 Regional Workshop

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• RENEWAL 3 Regional Workshop
• 12-14 March 2007
• Heia Safari Lodge, South Africa

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Objectives of the workshop

1. To review major current issues concerning AIDS,
   livelihoods, food and nutrition security in the
   region
2. To finalize research plans for RENEWALs third
   phase
3. To provide a platform for sharing information
   amongst partners and stakeholders, and initiating
   new collaborations.

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• RENEWAL origins and evolution
• Stuart Gillespie
• International Food Policy Research Institute
• Regional Network on AIDS, Livelihoods and Food
  Security
• Heia Safari Lodge, South Africa, 12 March 2007

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HIV and AIDS Food insecurity
and malnutrition - chronic - acute
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A brief history of RENEWAL

• 2000 Exploratory work on AIDS and food security
• 2001 IFPRI-DFID Consultation

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Loevinsohn and Gillespie 2003
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Susceptibility
Vulnerability of Livelihood Systems
Effect on Assets
HIV
Human, Financial, Social, Natural, Physical,
Political
Effect on Institutions
Community-based, Civil society, Market, State,
Global
Outcomes
Nutrition, Food Security, Education, Community
Cohesion, Income
Responses
Vulnerable Groups - Orphans, Elderly and Youth
Headed Households,
Individual, Household, Community
Stigma and Discrimination
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The Vicious Cycle of Malnutrition and HIV
Insufficient dietary intake
Malabsorption
, diarrhea
Altered metabolism and
nutrient storage
Increased HIV
Nutritional
replication
deficiencies
Hastened disease
progression
Increased morbidity
Increased oxidative
stress
Immune suppression
Source
Semba
and Tang, 1999
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Key gaps

• Understanding of dynamic interactions
• Understanding of how to respond
• Capacity to respond

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A brief history of RENEWAL

• 2000 Exploratory IFPRI work on AIDS and food
  security
• 2001 IFPRI-DFID Consultation,
• First national workshop in Mangochi, Malawi
• 2002 RENEWAL launched (Malawi, Uganda)
  IFPRI/ISNAR Research on AIDS, food security and
  food aid

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The Regional Network on
HIV/AIDS, Rural
Livelihoods, and Food Security (RENEWAL)

• Facilitated by IFPRI,
• RENEWAL brings together
• national networks of
• researchers,
• policymakers,
• public private organizations, and
• NGOs
• to focus on the interactions
• between HIV/AIDS and food
• and nutrition security.
• www.ifpri.org/renewal

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Goal

• To ensure food and nutrition security in the
  context of AIDS epidemics, and
• To maximize the food and nutrition sectors
  contribution to a comprehensive global response
  to AIDS

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Core pillars/processes of RENEWAL
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RENEWAL active in Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, South
Africa, Zambia
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A brief history of RENEWAL

• 2000 Exploratory IFPRI work on AIDS and food
  security
• 2001 IFPRI-DFID Consultation,
• First national workshop in Mangochi, Malawi
• 2002 RENEWAL launched (Malawi, Uganda)
  IFPRI/ISNAR Research on AIDS, food security and
  food aid
• 2003 Network-building, think tanks, workshops
• Zambia and South Africa join RENEWAL
• 2004 ISNAR transition to IFPRI
• 8 studies initiated (RENEWAL 1)
• Case studies and synthesis on OVCs

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First Phase RENEWAL Studies (2004-2005)
The Effects of HIV/AIDS on Agricultural Production Systems in Zambia A Restudy CARE International Zambia International HIV/AIDS Alliance, FAO
HIV/AIDS and Community Resilience in Zambia Understanding the Implications for Food and Nutrition Policies Farming Systems Association of Zambia Ministry of Agriculture Michigan State University IFPRI Washington DC
HIV/AIDS, Food and Nutrition Security in South Africa Understanding and Responding University of Western Cape, South Africa IFPRI, Washington DC
Promoting agricultural innovation in AIDS affected rural households in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Farmer Support Group, KwaZulu-Natal Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
HIV/AIDS, land reform and land-based livelihoods in 3 provinces in South Africa Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa
Impact of HIV/AIDS on inter- and intra-generational information flows among smallholder farmers, Malawi Chancellor College, Malawi ICRISAT-Malawi
HIV/AIDS, rural livelihoods and depeasantisation in Malawi finding pathways to social recovery CARE International Malawi Center of Social Research, Malawi University of Leiden, Netherlands
Farming Systems and Resilience to HIV/AIDS in Malawi Institute for Policy Research and Analysis for Dialogue, Blantyre, Chancellor College
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A brief history of RENEWAL

• 2000 Exploratory IFPRI work on AIDS and food
  security
• 2001 IFPRI-DFID Consultation,
• First national workshop in Mangochi, Malawi
• 2002 RENEWAL launched (Malawi, Uganda)
  IFPRI/ISNAR Research on AIDS, food security
  and food aid
• 2003 Network-building, think tanks, workshops
• Zambia and South Africa join RENEWAL
• 2004 ISNAR transition to IFPRI
• 8 studies initiated (RENEWAL 1)
• Case studies and synthesis on OVCs
• 2005 Food Policy Review 7 (gt150 studies
  reviewed)
• Durban Conference
• Kenya joins RENEWAL, Ethiopia start-up activities
• 2006 8 new studies initiated (RENEWAL 2)
• International AIDS Conference, Toronto
• AIDS, Poverty and Hunger published

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Second Phase RENEWAL Studies (2005-2006)
Dealing with vulnerability parents efforts to secure the future of their children (regional) University of Cape Town, University of KwaZulu Natal, IFPRI, Southern Africa Vulnerability Initiative (SAVI)
Tuberculosis An Additional Tipping Stress to Poor Households in South Africa and Zambia Stellenbosch University, S.Africa University Teaching Hospital, Zambia
HIV/AIDS, Food and Nutrition Security and Urban-Rural Linkages in Southern Africa IFPRI, RENEWAL, Southern African Migration Project
Integrating Nutrition Security with Treatment of People Living with HIV in Western Kenya Moi University, AMPATH, IFPRI, Columbia University USA, World Bank
HIV/AIDS Mortality and the Role of Woodland Resources in the Maintenance of Household Food Security in Rural Limpopo Province, South Africa. SUNRAE Program University of Witwatersrand, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Gender Issues in HIV/AIDS and Food/Nutrition security among Internally Displaced Peoples Camps in Uganda Makerere University
Land Ownership and Food Security in Uganda A Study of the Use and Control of Land Among Households of Women Affected by HIV/AIDS in Four Districts Makerere University and National Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS
The Effects on Rural Livelihoods of Increasing Rates of HIV/AIDS-related Illness and Death in Zomba South, Malawi Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Bunda College of Agriculture, Zomba
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Conclusions of the 2005 Durban Conference

• Simultaneously
• Strengthen individual, household and community
  capacity to avoid HIV and to respond to AIDS
• Preserve and enhance livelihood options and
  strategies
• - incentives for community mobilisation and
  development
• - address real constraints (labor-saving or
  cash-saving?)
• Protect vulnerable groups
• - Social protection is more than safety nets
• children affected by HIV and AIDS
• Strengthen governance and capacity

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• RENEWAL 3
• Protecting Livelihoods and Ensuring Food Security
  in the Time of AIDS
• 2007-2010

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RENEWAL 3

• Research in three thematic areas
• AIDS, agriculture and livelihood security
• AIDS, community resilience and social protection
• AIDS and nutrition security
• Capacity strengthening
• Communications
• Five hub countries, but now also linking with
  others (e.g. Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Mozambique)
• By 2010, networks become self-governing.

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Theme 1 AIDS, Agriculture and Livelihood Security

• Food insecurity and risk of exposure to HIV
• Multiple stressors / vulnerabilities and
  interactions with AIDS
• Impacts of AIDS on assets and investment
  incentives
• Internally, what modifications are needed so that
  the agricultural sector can contribute to poverty
  reduction in the context of AIDS?
• Externally, how can the agricultural development
  community contribute to a comprehensive response
  to AIDS?
• AIDS and the environment

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Theme 2 AIDS, Community Resilience and Social
Protection

• Identify ways to strengthen and extend community
  responses
• Linking state-led support to community-driven
  responses
• AIDS-sensitive social protection
• Dynamics responding to changing constraints and
  needs of people, households and communities
  affected by AIDS
• Protecting children affected by AIDS
  principles, processes, interventions

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Theme 3 AIDS and Nutrition Security

• Nutritional support linking to ARV therapy
  effectively
• Sustainable nutrition security of affected
  households and communities
• HIV lens operational implications of rethinking
  nutrition from this perspective
• Defining the role of nutrition in social
  protection

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Capacity strengthening

• New strategy involves training and orientation
  in
• thematic knowledge, research methods, data
  analysis skills, project management, proposal
  writing, writing for publication, communication
  skills.
• Strengthening RENEWALs physical network and
  connectivity
• National and regional workshops
• Maintaining and extending research partnerships,
  with South-South and North-South links.
• Learning grants scheme
• Capacity progressively strengthened as
  communications increases access to relevant
  information

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Communications and knowledge management

• Inreach and outreach
• New outreach strategy to be implemented
• Messages, stakeholders, tools
• Who, what, how
• Revamped RENEWAL website
• Updating living evidence base on web
• Tool pool (concepts, principles, methods,
  processes)
• Bibliography of key documents (links to other
  sites)
• Building on RENEWAL and Durban conference
  networks (links to UNAIDS, SADC, NEPAD, SARPN
  etc)
• Briefs, papers, CDs, journal articles, books

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IMPACT