Nigeria: National response review

The Federal Government of Nigeria through the National Action Committee on AIDS (NACA) and partners is planning to jointly review the National Response to HIV/AIDS in Nigeria and also develop a new 5year Strategic Framework to guide the National Response.

The key outputs from the process are
1. A National Situation Analysis Report for the Country
2. A new five years Strategic Framework for Nigeria
3. Strengthened coordination mechanisms at all levels The desire is to produce a new National Strategic Framework that will be a tool responsive to national, regional and international changes and provide the required vision to halt and reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria. To achieve this in the limited time, we all have jointly set will require enormous technical and financial support from all. The National Action Committee on AIDS (NACA) and its partners recognize that there are several institutions and organizations within the National Response that have or are executing world class interventions and making a lot of difference. In order to effectively review, report, capture and reflect on best practices and lessons learnt from all interventions executed within the National Response in the last four years, I wish to request all existing documentations.

Specifically, I wish to request for documents that capture the variety, spread and depth of interventions undertaken by various stakeholders. These documents could be in the any format such as reports, studies & researches etc. This collation will form an invaluable component of the review process and ensure that the outcome of the process is a true reflection of the National response that guarantees that the new Strategic framework is evidence-based. In light of the above, and the constraint of time I wish to invite all organizations and institutions that have done any intervention in HIV/AIDS in Nigeria to send all available documents to the Directorate for Policy, Strategy & Communication, in NACA or electronically to:
[email protected] on or before Monday 11th of October 2004. We will appreciate documents that are limited to interventions undertaken within the last four years (2001-2004). The list of desired document could include but is limited to the following:
1. Periodic Project Reports
2. Studies on any aspect of HIV/AIDS
3. Researches in/around the issues of HIV/AIDS
4. Analysis/Comparative studies etc executed within the last four years.

All such documents will be acknowledged and credits for lessons learnt and best practices captured will be accorded to the rightful organizations.

Alex Ogundipe Director, Policy Strategy & Communication National Action Committee on AIDS (NACA)
Email: [email protected]