Centre for Economic Governance and AIDS in Africa

Projects

CEGAA undertakes projects in the field of economic governance for health, HIV/AIDS and related issues in Africa. We have undertaken numerous projects for governments, organisations and civil society.

Current Projects

National AIDS Spending Assessment in East and Southern Africa
CEGAA provides the NASA training, technical support and content expertise for National AIDS Councils. This is undertaken on behalf of the UNAIDS Technical Support Fund. Countries - Botswana, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Lesotho, Swaziland and South Africa (2007 ongoing).

Costing the HIV Response to 2031 South Africa
This project costs the financial resources required for the HIV response in South Africa to 2031. Funded by Results 4 Development and UNAIDS.(2009)

Community Monitoring of Health Spending in South Africa
Collaborative work in health HIV/AIDS and TB budget and expenditure tracking at district level with the Treatment Access Campaign. This project is partly funded by International Budget Project and Open Society Institute.(2009 - 2011)

Building Capacity of CSOs to Participate Effectively in Budgetary processes and Expenditure Tracking for HIV/AIDS and Health in Southern Africa
This project is being piloted in Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique and seeks to enhance the participation of CSOs in government budget Processes and in tracking of expenditure for health and HIV/AIDS. This project is supported by OXFAM-NOVIB (2008-2010).

Parliamentarian training programmes
Parliamentarian training in economic governance and financial management, including costing, budgeting and tracking expenditure.(Upon demand).

Building Capacity of CSOs in Former-Soviet Union Countries in budget monitoring and expenditure tracking
CEGAA is providing training and technical support to CSOs involved in health issues for marginalized groups. This project is supported by the Open Society Institute, in the following countries: Romania, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Macedonia, Russia and Hungary.

Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights
Collaborative project with AMANITARE in several African countries involving monitoring of SRHR. Funded by the EU and OXFAM-NOVIB (TO COMMENCE 2010).

Economic Governance: Building Capacity for CSOs and Local Government officials
This project provides training , technical skills and support, and advocacy capacity building for CSOs and local government officials in budget monitoring and expenditure tracking, around any issue that relates to development. A collaboration with INESC (in Brazil), and funded by OXFAM-NOVIB. Undertaken in countries: Angola, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

Past Projects

International Treatment Preparedness Campaign - training for partners
CEGAA provided training budget monitoring to the ITPC partners in Africa and Asia, who envisaged that through additional support, the MTT reports will have financing components.

Preparation of WHO background document
Preparation of background document for the strategic direction of the newly established Health Systems Strengthening Unit in the HIV/AIDS Department of the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Open Society Institute Partner Capacity Building
Training and technical support to several Eastern European countries in their health budget monitoring project.

National AIDS Spending Assessment(NASA) and Resource Needs Estimation Training and Pre-Training Activities
CEGAA successfully delivered a NASA and RNE training for several East and Southern countries, in conjuction with the UNAIDS TSF in Johannesburg (23-29 September 2007). Prior to the training, the participants undertook two activities in collecting the data on domestic spending on HIV/AIDS and the unit costs of HIV/AIDS interventions. CEGAA provided the technical support and oversight of these activities (to 12 consultants in 6 countries), as well as the editing and finalisation of their reports. In addition, CEGAA undertook an assessment and mappping of 21 ESA countries in terms of their resource tracking activities and needs, and prepared a concept paper to guide the interventions of UNAIDS in the region. This has ensured that the NASA activities are country initiated and driven, which is essential for their success.

CSO BMET Training
Training for Eastern and Southern Africa countries in HIV/AIDS and health budget monitoring and expenditure tracking (BMET. The initial training workshop was held in June 2007, in collaboration with the International Budget Project.This was supported by the Ford Foundation.

ASAP Training
CEGAA provided technical facilitation at the ASAP training of HIV/AIDS managers and input to the curriculum development for HIV/AIDS programme managers.

Aid Harmonisation and Alignment Framework for Action for the Southern African Development Community (SADC)
CEGAA undertook a review of aid architecture for HIV/AIDS, as well as an assessment of progress towards the Paris Declaration, with regards to harmonisation and alignment of aid for HIV/AIDS, for the SADC Secretariat. The findings were presented at the SADC NAC Directors' meeting (October 2007), which were well received and which contributed to the strong SADC Communique. Subsequently, CEGAA drafted the SADC Framework for Action for Harmonisation and Alignment, which was adopted by the SADC members.

Costing and Budgeting Training for National and Provincial HIV/AIDS Managers in South Africa
CEGAA and Futures Institute provided a successful training workshop for Constella Futures to the South African HIV/AIDS National and Provincial Managers to enhance their costing and budgeting skills.

Technical Support to the AIDS Budget Unit, IDASA, in their multi-country civil society reports
CEGAA provided extensive input and reviewing of the reports prepared by CSOs in Tanzania (and Zanzibar), Malawi, Ethiopia and Zambia.

Modules for Masters Courses
CEGAA prepared a distance learning module for MEDUNSA Masters students on the topic of Financing for HIV/AIDS in Africa. It is hoped that such models might be useful to other African Economic departments. In addition, CEGAA has provided a few learning experiences for students, and hopes to extend these to internships for relevant Masters students.