GOP-UNDP AIDS Program 2009-2010

Promoting Leadership and Mitigating the Negative Impacts
of HIV and AIDS on Human Development


The Programme aims to support leadership and capacity development to strengthen local responses and mitigate the negative impacts on human development of HIV and AIDS. It adopts a modular approach in programming to remain flexible and responsive to a ‘hidden and growing’ epidemic and the needs of the Philippines’ 4th AIDS Medium Term Plan (AMTP-4).

Component One (C1): Leadership for Effective and Sustained Responses to HIV and AIDS seeks to harmonize efforts with the Philippine National AIDS Council (PNAC) and the UN Joint Team on AIDS (UNJTA) to strengthen sustainable local AIDS responses through the development of leadership capacities of Local Government Units (LGUs) and the Regional AIDS Assistance Teams (RAATs).

Component Two (C2): Strengthening Institutional Capacities and Partnerships on HIV and Migration supports the UN Joint Programme on HIV and Migration through regional mobility initiatives to enhance the capacity of overseas government attachés to advocate and provide rights-based services to Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) with special focus on women. It will also reinforce and further integrate gender sensitive awareness and HIV prevention for OFWs particularly women into government mandated and private sector-led pre-departure seminars and appropriate training programmes.

Component Three (C3): Mitigating the Economic and Psychosocial Impacts of HIV and AIDS plans to review and strengthen current PLHIV referral mechanisms to provide support services, including psychosocial services, and enable PLHIV OFWs to continue to be economically productive upon re-entry in the country. This component will integrate and mainstream direct PLHIV case management into the livelihood and psychosocial support services of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).

Component Four (C4): Strategic Information and Community Leadership among Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) and Transgender (TG) populations will review and analyze current community-based responses to HIV among MSMs and construct a ‘comprehensive package of services’ to encourage effective community responses. This project will also build and support the capacity of civil society organizations (CSOs) to effectively utilize strategic information and actively participate in local government processes that respond to HIV and AIDS.

Component Five (C5): Knowledge, Communication and Advocacy to Promote Deeper Understanding of HIV and AIDS seeks to enhance policy and programme planning on HIV and AIDS by strengthening advocacy and strategic information to promote multi-sector response. It will identify and assist in the production of strategic information to address the knowledge gaps in the Philippines AIDS responses and function as a platform to facilitate and support the involvement of multi sector partners to increase the scale and scope of AIDS advocacy and anti-stigma initiatives. Initially, it will undertake research activities on HIV and AIDS-related infections and injecting drug use (IDU).