Supplementary memorandum submitted by
UNAIDS
LEVEL AND FLOW OF INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES
FOR THE RESPONSE TO HIV/AIDS: 1998 UPDATE
INTRODUCTION
During its sixth meeting in May 1998, the UNAIDS
Programme Co-ordinating Board recommended that the UNAIDS Secretariat
continue to monitor national and international resource flows
to HIV/AIDS on a long-term basis. The Secretariat was advised
to build on its experience with the UNAIDS Secretariat/Havard
School of Public Health study on 1996-1997 HIV/AIDS financing
to establish sustainable monitoring processes.
Following this recommendation, in mid-1999,
the UNAIDS Secretariat joined an ongoing collaboration between
UNFPA and the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute
(NIDI) to collect information on the official development assistance
disbursed to HIV/AIDS by donor countries. In the aftermath of
the International Conference on Population and Development. UNFPA
and NIDI have been collecting on a yearly basis data on the national
and international resource flows to population activities including
HIV/AIDS. UNAIDS collaborated in the 1998 data collection. During
this process, the UNAIDS Secretariat has collaborated closely
with UNFPA, NIDI and the donor country members of the Development
Assistance Committee (DAC) to improve existing HIV/AIDS data collection
methodologies.
In addition to these efforts to collect information
on donor country allocations to HIV/AIDS, the UNAIDS Secretariat
is also collecting information on UNAIDS Cosponsor HIV/AIDS allocations
as well as country-level resource flows. Data on the Cosponsor
HIV/AIDS expenditure were collected during the preparations for
the Unified Budget and Workplan, 2000-2001 (see the Unified Budget
and Workplan, 2000-2001, Addendum 1). Efforts to further improve
the quality of these data will be part of the joint United Nations
planning and programming process. Finally, the Secretariat has
made substantial progress in the development of a country batabase
on the national responses to the epidemic including data on country-level
resource flows to HIV/AIDS.
This paper presents the 1998 HIV/AIDS official
development assistance collected from 14 of the 22 DAC member
countries. Almost 80 per cent of the official development assistance
disbursed by DAC member countries in 1998 came from these 14 countries
- Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Japan,
the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom
and the United States. All available data suggest that they also
provide at least 80 per cent of the official development assistance
disbursed for HIV/AIDS activities in 1998.[6]
LEVEL OF
1998 OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT
ASSISTANCE TO
HIV/AIDS
Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland,
Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland,
the United Kingdom and the United States reported having disbursed
almost US$300 million for HIV/AIDS activities in developing countries
and countries in transition in 1998 (Table 1).
[For intervening paragraphs see paragraphs 5.4.7-5.4.8
of original memorandum submitted by UNAIDS (Evidence pp 224-5)]
ISSUES AND
NEXT STEPS
IN THE
MONITORING OF
OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT
ASSISTANCE TO
HIV/AIDS
The UNAIDS Secretariat has made significant
progress in establishing sustainable processes for monitoring
of donor country resource flows to HIV/AIDS on a long term and
sustainable basis, but some key issues remain.
Some major DAC members including France and
the European Commission continue to have major difficulties in
the reporting of their official development assistance allocated
to HIV/AIDS.
There continue to be differences in the ways
that different donors define HIV/AIDS activities. This is particularly
problematic the monitoring of HIV/AIDS components within integrated
development projects or HIV/AIDS allocations within sector wide
approaches and common basket funding schemes.
Because of administrative differences among
the DAC member countries, including differences in fiscal years,
there is a significant delay in reporting. It is only possible
to report on donor country HIV/AIDS expenditures almost two years
late (ie reporting on 1998 data in a mid 2000).
Working closely with the DAC, UNFPA and the
Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), the
UNAIDS Secretariat plans to convene a meeting of donor country
representatives to agree on a common methodology for reporting
on HIV/AIDS components within integrated development projects
and HIV/AIDS allocations within sector wide approaches and common
basket funding schemes.
To supplement its monitoring of donor country
HIV/AIDS obligations, the UNAIDS Secretariat is in the process
of establishing a process to sysematically monitor pledges and
allocations to HIV/AIDS.
UNAIDS
January 2001
6 All information on level and flow of official development
assistance as taken from "Development Assistance Committee
International Development Statistics." OECD website: http://www.oecd.org/dac/htm/dcdrsd-e.htm.,
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