Karina to add narrative to the

For the gender-HIV/AIDS part of this activity, the contractor will organize and hold two full day workshops

and meetings to gather partners and stakeholders to discuss some of the gender issues that inhibit HIV

prevention efforts, share best-practices on these issues, and outline research and programmatic needs and

priorities. The format, participants, and specific topics will be determined in collaboration with key partners.

Experts from the region and outside the region may be invited to participate. Topics might include men's

health, male norms, and/or gender-based violence.

Result: Underlying issues that constrain human capacity development and deployment across multiple

program areas assessed; Capacity at health training institutions assessed.

Health Sector Human Capacity Assessment

The current Health Resources Plan covered the period up to 2003. Given recent developments in the

provision of prevention, care and treatment of HIV/AIDS by the Government of Botswana, there is an urgent

need to create a new plan that will meet the needs of the country to implement quality health programs over

the next ten years.

Input: USG will provide financial support

Activities/Outputs: The assessment will include the following:

•Analysis and outcome evaluation of the previous Health Resource Development Plan

•Assessment of the current health sector workforce: Ministry of Health, Ministry of Local Government, civil

society and private sector providers and all health cadres including social workers and other non-health staff

providing psychosocial support to patients; absolute numbers, skills, allocation and utilization, performance

and productivity, attrition patterns and contributing factors, salary structure, recruitment procedures and

human resource policies

•Assessment of the training capacity of the Institutes of Health Sciences and University of Botswana

The development of a new health resource development plan will be based on the following outcomes of

the assessment:

•Scenarios and projections of human resource needs for the next 10 years

•Proposals for:

•recruitment mechanisms to meet short- and long-term needs

•job realignment and skills improvement

•performance improvement

•reduction of the impact of staff losses due to migration (internal and external) and attrition

•incentive mechanisms and motivation of the public sector

•absorption of human resources anticipating possible institutional and other reforms affecting HR in the

country

•policy reform

•development or restructuring of training institutions (basic and post-graduate)

•Estimates of implementation costs and possible sources of funding

Outcome: This activity will result in the development of a new human resource development plan and health

human resource policy for the health sector based on a comprehensive health workforce assessment.

Result: organizational capacity of civil society strengthened; local support and participation in the HIV/AIDS

response enhanced

Community Capacity Enhancement Program

Activities/Outputs: UNDP, working with MLG/ACU, began implementation of the Community Capacity

Enhancement Program in five districts in 2004 as one of the strategies to halt and reverse the HIV/AIDS

epidemic. This program seeks to build on the capacity of individuals and communities to facilitate local

community responses to HIV/AIDS in the areas prevention, care, treatment and support, stigma reduction

and addressing gender inequities. Specifically the program is designed to:

•Explore community perspectives concerning how to live with and respect PLWHAs and their involvement in

community response to the epidemic;

•Strengthen the capacity of individuals and organizations to facilitate local community responses to

HIV/AIDS that integrate care with prevention, keeping in mind other priority concerns such as coping

strategies, orphans and vulnerable children, health and development, etc.;

•Sustain local action by increasing the capacity to care, change and find hope within individuals, families

and the community;

•Strengthen individual and organizational reflection on their approach and ways of working with

communities; and,

•Facilitate the transfer of lessons learned and change between individuals, from organization to organization

and from community to community.

Local United Nations Volunteers will be placed in villages to drive and facilitate the process using

participatory methodologies and a team approach.

In 2005, the coverage will be extended to the entire country. Specific activities will include: hiring five

additional local United Nations Volunteers and training 240 facilitators.

Outcomes: Local United Nations Volunteers will serve as change agents to help communities in their

response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.