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Key achievements in 2006

Funding

In 2006, Alliance income continued to grow rapidly, reaching US$60.9 million – an increase of 33% on 2005. All sources of funding increased, with the largest increase coming from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The Alliance’s largest source of funding continues to be from governments. This sector represented 45% of total income.

Increase coverage

• The Alliance reached 1.3 million people through its programmes and activities, with another 45 million reached through information, education and communication campaigns.
• Over 724,000 people were reached through Alliance HIV prevention activities.
• Over 224,000 people were reached by Alliance home- and community-based care programmes.
• Through Alliance programmes, nearly 120,000 orphans and vulnerable children received care and support within their communities.
• 197,000 people were provided with HIV counselling and testing services.
• 1,149 community organisations were supported by the Alliance to work on HIV – many for the first time.

Strengthen national responses

• The Alliance awarded 1,135 new grants to community organisations working on HIV, many for the first time.
• Over 85,000 service providers were trained through the Alliance to provide direct HIV services.
• Over 12,000 people were trained to build the organisational and programmatic capacity of NGOs and CBOs.
• Over 500,000 copies of Alliance publications and resources were distributed electronically or in hard-copy format from the Alliance secretariat.
• By the end of the year, over 17,100 people had participated in anti-stigma activities as part of the Alliance’s Africa regional stigma training project.

Inform policies

• The Alliance kept the spotlight on government and donor commitments to the goal of universal access to HIV prevention, care and treatment by 2010. We also supported roll-out of targets at a national level and highlighted policy action needed to tackle stigma and discrimination, which remains a key barrier to achieving universal access.
• In Ukraine, Alliance input and involvement was a significant factor in methadone being legally registered and made available for substitution therapy for injecting drug users.
• In Cambodia, Alliance advocacy work was key to a new national recognition of the importance of sex between men and injecting drug use in the country’s HIV epidemic, and the incorporation of men who have sex with men as a priority group in the national AIDS plan.
• Alliance India organised and hosted the first national workshop on children living with HIV, in May 2006. The workshop produced a set of programming and policy recommendations to guide India’s work with children living with HIV and its new National AIDS Control Programme.
• Over 4,300 people from marginalised and vulnerable groups were involved in advocacy activities in Ecuador to highlight the issues and discrimination they face in the HIV epidemic.
• The Alliance continued to shape international agendas through its active involvement in the board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the International Drugs Purchasing Facility UNITAID, the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board, and the work of the Stop AIDS Alliance in Brussels.
• The Alliance started working as part of the Action for Global Health project, a partnership of 15 NGOs from across Europe working to increase European support to help developing countries achieve the health related Millennium Development Goals.
• October 2006 saw the launch of the International Drug Purchasing Facility, an innovative financing mechanism developed by France, Brazil, Chile, Norway and the UK (the UNITAID Group), which will use revenues from air passenger duty to fund action on HIV, TB and malaria. Alliance engagement helped to shape the governance structure of this new initiative, ensuring civil society and affected communities representation on the board.
• Work to support mainstreaming of HIV and AIDS activities into wider development plans continued, with research into the barriers to mainstreaming in Burkina Faso, Cambodia, India and Zambia.
• The Alliance hosted an influential satellite session at the Toronto 2006 International AIDS conference with the Global Fund and UNAIDS, sharing experiences and perspectives on Global Fund grant implementation from Ukraine, Senegal, Thailand and Ecuador.

Build an effective alliance

• Alliance country offices in Andhra Pradesh, India and Côte d’Ivoire started the process of becoming locally governed, independent Alliance linking organisations – adding to the vision of the Alliance as a network of sustainable, indigenous, independent organisations.
• New framework agreements were signed between Alliance linking organisations, country offices and the secretariat, setting common standards, and promoting the development of horizontal learning and sharing between partners.
• The Alliance set up a Global Fund support group to provide technical support to all Alliance organisations in Global Fund grant management, and to facilitate lesson sharing and support rapid skills-building.
• Exchange and learning visits took place between Alliance organisations in Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire, Zambia and Burkina Faso, India and Myanmar, and Cambodia and Myanmar.
• Small strategic grants were provided to five Alliance linking organisations to help them invest in strategic planning, organisational development and resource mobilisation, and to start up new activities.
• The Alliance set up a Policy and Advocacy Committee (PAC) to provide a mechanism for linking organisations and country offices to help set an international policy agenda and advocacy positions that represent the whole Alliance and link to country programme work. The first meeting took place on 1 November 2006.
• A knowledge-sharing strategy for the Alliance was developed, based on an analysis by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) of knowledge management and learning across the Alliance.

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