USAID's HIV/AIDS Human Capacity Development Initiative
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The HIV/AIDS pandemic is placing
additional stress on already overburdened health care systems
and providers in developing countries. Many providers themselves
are infected with HIV. Human resources are being eroded
just as countries increasingly need them to provide a growing
number of services. It is therefore important to incorporate
human capacity development strategies into the design and
implementation of HIV/AIDS programs to ensure adequate human
resources are available to deliver HIV/AIDS services. Learn more about human
capacity development.
Human Capacity Development
Human capacity development is the development
of skills, capabilities, and systems for an effective response
to HIV/AIDS at all levels. Examples of human capacity development
approaches include human resource policy, planning, and
management, training of community volunteers, pre-service
education and in-service training, staff recruitment and
retention measures, management and leadership development,
and performance improvement strategies.
USAID's Approach
In fiscal year 2001, the Office of HIV/AIDS
of the U.S. Agency for International Development committed
$3.25 million to implement human capacity development activities.
The resulting Human Capacity Development Initiative aims
to strengthen human capacity to lead, plan, implement, monitor,
and evaluate expanded HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and support
programs.
Current Activities
Donors Group on Human Capacity Development.
USAID, the World Bank Institute, and UNAIDS developed a
donors group to raise awareness for HIV/AIDS human capacity
development. The donors group supported side conferences
at the regional AIDS conference in Burkina Faso, and at
the XIV International AIDS conference in Barcelona to further
define human capacity development, and to identify strategies
for human capacity development that can be applied in host
country settings.
Technical Guidance Document on Human Capacity
Development for Effective HIV/AIDS Responses. USAID, in
collaboration with UNAIDS and the World Bank Institute,
is developing guidance for donors and HIV/AIDS program managers
in defining the steps necessary for supporting communities
and countries to strengthen local human capacity for effective
HIV/AIDS action and service delivery.
UNAIDS Program Acceleration Fund. The
Office of HIV/AIDS has committed funds to UNAIDS to implement
field-based HIV/AIDS human capacity development activities.
These funds will be used to strengthen the capacity of national
planners and managers to scale-up HIV/AIDS service delivery
programs, and to demonstrate innovative approaches to strengthening
the development of human capacity for HIV/AIDS prevention,
care and treatment.
Technical Support Group for the development
of proposals to the Global Fund. The Human Capacity Development
Initiative has made resources available to help USAID missions
develop effective HIV/AIDS human capacity development strategies
as part of their proposals for the Global Fund for AIDS,
Tuberculosis, and Malaria. Materials include a CD-ROM that
contains tools for designing HIV/AIDS human capacity development
interventions.
Training Needs Assessment in East and
Southern Africa. The Office of HIV/AIDS is supporting a
training needs assessment in 12 African countries. The assessment
will provide USAID and its partners in the region with information
about training needs and resources available to meet them.
For more information about USAID's HIV/AIDS
Human Capacity Development Initiative, please contact
Estelle
Quain at equain@usaid.gov.
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