IATT Advocacy Working Group

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IATT Advocacy Working Group

• April 15, 2009

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Purpose and Members

• Objectives

• Members

• Influence decision-making by providing support to
  establish new or change existing policies
  affecting young people and HIV
• Mobilize political and financial resources for
  young people and HIV
• Enhance partnerships with different
  constituencies/stakeholders (governments, civil
  society, youth organizations, development
  partners, etc.) to institutionalize and scale up
  HIV prevention, treatment and care for young
  people
• Ensure the priorities and human rights of young
  people are highlighted at international meetings,
  conferences, and in the work of the IATT members
  respective organizations and agencies

• GYCA (facilitator)
• AfriYAN
• Alliance of Youth CEOs
• ILO
• UNAIDS
• UNESCO
• UFNPA
• UNODC
• World AIDS Campaign

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Completed Activities

• Presentations on Global Guidance Briefs at
  International AIDS Conference and at ICASA
• Briefs distributed to members accompanied by a
  letter reaffirming our commitment to youth
  participation and capacity building
• Finalizing slides for members to use when
  presenting the briefs and a dissemination
  strategy for the briefs

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Future Activities

• Main topics for discussion
• One major activity and one smaller activity
  proposed for the upcoming year
• Organize a global forum to increase the presence
  of young people on the global AIDS agenda
• Proposed date March 2010
• Prepare advocacy briefs on specific key topics
  related to young people and HIV, such as the
  importance of age-disaggregated data,
  youth-friendly health services, etc.

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Proposed Forum

• OBJECTIVES
• To raise awareness among key stakeholders (
  Policy makers, donors, UN agencies, civil society
  etc) and to share knowledge and experience on
  effective approaches and partnerships for
  effective HIV prevention among young people,
  especially most-at-risk young people and
• To mobilize political and financial support
  towards achieving the global commitments as well
  as the goal of universal access to HIV
  prevention, treatment and care for young people.

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Proposed Forum Cont.

• To intensify prevention, treatment and care for
  young people and in particular scaling up of
  proven interventions that work as regards HIV
  prevention as mentioned in the political
  declaration, the IATT/YP will host a 3-Day
  Consultation meeting. Over the three days, it is
  expected that all stakeholders will come to a
  consensus on what actions need to be taken at the
  global, regional and national levels to scale up
  HIV prevention among young people. This forum
  will also feed into the XVIV International AIDS
  International AIDS Conference in Vienna in 2010.
  

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Proposed Forum Cont.

• PARTICIPANTS AND PARTNERS
• The participants will include 100 representatives
  from civil societies (including young people), UN
  agencies, multi-lateral and bilateral donors,
  national governments, international
  organizations, media, academic and research
  institutions and the private sector.
• PREPARATION FOR THE GLOBAL PARTNERS MEETING 
• In order to achieve the objectives of the
  meeting, funding is sought to undertake the
  following key preparatory exercises among others
• Meeting to discuss and document lessons learned
  in SRH/HIV/AIDS programming for young people
• Determining resource allocation, spending and
  resource gaps needed to scale up HIV prevention,
  treatment and care for young people

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Advocacy Brief(s)

• Two options
• Wait to see how the Global Guidance Briefs are
  being used and then push for an issue that is
  getting good traction or is being left of the
  table or
• Independent of the Briefs, select an issue or
  issues and draft short, two-page advocacy briefs
  on those topics

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Additional Activities

• Is there a key activity or topic the Advocacy
  Working Group needs to work on in 2009-2010?
• How can this working group support and/or bring
  together work from the other working groups?