Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Secretariat (UNAIDS)

Overall description of the organisation:

UNAIDS has five focus areas including: leadership and advocacy, strategic information and technical support, tracking monitoring and evaluation, civil society engagement and mobilization of resources.

Mandate and Objectives:

UNAIDS is committed to strengthening support to nationally owned and led responses. UNAIDS has five focus areas including: leadership and advocacy, strategic information and technical support, tracking monitoring and evaluation, civil society engagement and mobilization of resources. With its ten cosponsors UNAIDS assists in ensuring better coordination among its partners in the UN system, governments, civil society, donors, the private sector and others. Together we are committed to making the money work for those who are in the most need today - while ensuring long term solutions are in place for tomorrow.

Sectors of Activity:

Civil Society
Gender
Human Rights
Public Private Partnerships

Public Private Partnerships

Organisation's added-value:

UNAIDS per say is not a peacebuilding agency but works with NGOs for an effective national response to HIV / all regions. UNAIDS, through its cosponsors and partners, seeks to provide technical support to build civil society capacity / all regions.

Types of activities:

Capacity and development training
Technical assistance

Description of activities

Capacity development and training:

UNAIDS, through its cosponsors and partners, seeks to provide technical support to build civil society capacity / all regions.

Technical assistance:

UNAIDS per say is not a peacebuilding agency but works with NGOs for an effective national response to HIV / all regions.

Human Rights

Gender

Countries where the Organisation is Actively Engaged:

Africa
- Central Africa
  - Cameroon
  - Democratic Republic of the Congo
  - Chad
  - Equatorial Guinea
  - Central African Republic
  - Gabon
  - Sao Tome and Principe
- Eastern Africa
  - Madagascar
  - Uganda
  - Mozambique
  - Kenya
  - Somalia
  - Sudan
  - Burundi
  - Rwanda
  - United Republic of Tanzania
  - Ethiopia
  - Eritrea
  - Zambia
  - Malawi
  - Zimbabwe
- Northern Africa
  - Egypt
  - Morocco
  - Algeria
  - Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
  - Tunisia
- Southern Africa
  - South Africa
  - Swaziland
  - Lesotho
  - Botswana
  - Namibia
- Western Africa
  - Benin
  - Gambia
  - Ghana
  - Senegal
  - Nigeria
  - Liberia
  - Mauritania
  - Niger
  - Sierra Leone
  - Guinea
  - Burkina Faso
  - Cape Verde
  - Cote d’Ivoire
  - Guinea-Bissau
  - Mali
Americas
- Caribbean
  - Haiti
  - Dominican Republic
  - Jamaica
  - Barbados
  - Cuba
  - Trinidad and Tobago
- Central America
  - Costa Rica
  - Honduras
  - Panama
  - El-Salvador
  - Guatemala
  - Nicaragua
  - Belize
- North America
  - Mexico
- South America
  - Argentina
  - Brazil
  - Chile
  - Paraguay
  - Uruguay
  - Bolivia
  - Colombia
  - Ecuador
  - Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
  - Guyana
  - Suriname
Asia
- Central Asia
  - Kazakhstan
  - Kyrgyzstan
  - Tajikistan
  - Uzbekistan
  - Turkmenistan
- East Asia
  - China
- South Asia
  - Nepal
  - India
  - Pakistan
  - Sri Lanka
  - Bangladesh
  - Iran (Islamic Republic of)
- South East Asia
  - Cambodia
  - Indonesia
  - Philippines
  - Thailand
  - Myanmar
  - Lao People’s Democratic Republic
  - Viet Nam
- Western Asia
  - Armenia
  - Georgia
  - Azerbaijan
  - Cyprus
Europe
- Eastern Europe
  - Republic of Moldova
  - Czech Republic
  - Slovakia
  - Russian Federation
  - Ukraine
  - Belarus
  - Bulgaria
  - Hungary
- Southern Europe
  - Bosnia and Herzegovina
  - Croatia
  - Serbia
  - Slovenia
  - (The former Yugoslav) Republic of Macedonia
Oceania