- Evaluation Plan:
- 2018-2021, Bureau for Policy and Programme Support
- Evaluation Type:
- Final Project
- Planned End Date:
- 03/2021
- Completion Date:
- 02/2021
- Status:
- Completed
- Management Response:
- Yes
- Evaluation Budget(US $):
- 100,000
Global Project for the Evaluation of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law
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Title | Global Project for the Evaluation of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law | ||||||||||||
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Atlas Project Number: | 00063928 | ||||||||||||
Evaluation Plan: | 2018-2021, Bureau for Policy and Programme Support | ||||||||||||
Evaluation Type: | Final Project | ||||||||||||
Status: | Completed | ||||||||||||
Completion Date: | 02/2021 | ||||||||||||
Planned End Date: | 03/2021 | ||||||||||||
Management Response: | Yes | ||||||||||||
Focus Area: |
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Corporate Outcome and Output (UNDP Strategic Plan 2018-2021) |
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SDG Goal |
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SDG Target |
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Evaluation Budget(US $): | 100,000 | ||||||||||||
Source of Funding: | UBRAF | ||||||||||||
Evaluation Expenditure(US $): | 149,399 | ||||||||||||
Joint Programme: | No | ||||||||||||
Joint Evaluation: | No | ||||||||||||
Evaluation Team members: |
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GEF Evaluation: | No | ||||||||||||
Key Stakeholders: | Government, CSOs and UN partners | ||||||||||||
Countries: | GLOBAL |
Lessons | |
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1. | LESSONS LEARNED 2. CRITICAL FACTORS OF THE COMMISSION’S SUCCESS b. Continued Relevance
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Findings | |
1. | FINDINGS In 2010, UNDP, on behalf of the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), convened the Global Commission on HIV and the Law (the Global Commission) to examine legal and human rights issues through an HIV lens. The goal of the evaluation was to assess the impact of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law based on its stated aims of contributing to the evidence base on the relationship between HIV, human rights and legal environments; and providing evidence-informed and actionable recommendations for law and policy reform. The objectives of the evaluation were: 1.1. Global and regional advocacy and resource flow 2. Analysis of the critical success factors for the Commission’s success The impacts of the Global Commission’s work at the global level are multi-faceted and complex. There are three areas where its impacts have been particularly visible: other global level processes, the advancement of substantive discussions related to HIV and the law, and the promotion of collaborative learning and action. The Global Commission acted as a critical platform to open up the global response around HIV and the law, influencing global discussions and actions and facilitating other partners’ exploration and financing of these issues. There is clear subsequent alignment between the priorities and strategies of some other global institutions such as UNAIDS and the Global Fund with the Global Commission’s work and recommendations, including with respect to legal environment assessments at country level. For example, the UNAIDS 2016-2021 On the Fast Track to End AIDS, the Global Fund 2017-2022 Investing to End the Epidemics and the PEPFAR’s PEPFAR 3.0—Controlling the Epidemic: Delivering on the Promise of an AIDS-Free Generation strategies all highlight the role of human rights and the law in the HIV response as part of their approaches, an area which had not previously been so explicit in their strategic materials. With respect to the Global Fund specifically, one key informant reported that it was only following the 2012 report that there was an effort by the Fund to reshape a strategic objective on human rights and gender. The influence of the Global Commission on UNDP’s work is also evident: leveraging the Commission’s work, UNDP expanded its HIV and health portfolio and used findings to inform institutional strategies such as the UNDP HIV, Health and Development Strategy 2016-21 and the UNDP Strategic Plan 2018-21. 1.2. IMPACT OF GLOBAL, REGIONAL AND NATIONAL POLICY AND PROGRAMMING b. Global HIV, Health and Development Agendas c. High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines
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Recommendations | |
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1 | Evaluation recommendation 1. |
2 | Evaluation recommendation 2. |
3 | Evaluation recommendation 3. |
4 | Evaluation recommendation 4. Sustain and adapt regional level activities
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5 | Evaluation recommendation 5. Support capacity building of stakeholders through peer networks |
Key Action Update History
Evaluation recommendation 1.
Use the evaluation report to inform the design and implementation of future partnership initiatives
Management Response: [Added: 2021/05/18]
Accepted: The evaluation report can inform how UNDP and other institutions might design and implement future partnerships with global, regional, and local government, civil society, UN, and academic partners to address complex health and development issues. UNDP will apply the lessons learned from the evaluation of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law to future partnerships. Critical to the implementation of this recommendation is the dissemination of the lessons from the evaluation within UNDP and with other stakeholders. A stakeholder meeting to disseminate the findings of the evaluation is planned for 25 May 2021.
Key Actions:
Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
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1.1 Dissemination of the findings of the evaluation of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law
[Added: 2021/05/18] [Last Updated: 2021/08/16] |
Health Team | 2021/06 | Completed | 1.1. UNDP organized a webinar to disseminate the findings of the evaluation findings. The event featured a high-level panel consisting of representatives of governments, civil society and UN entities. A recording of the event may be found at: https://hivlawcommission.org/evaluation-of-the-global-commission-on-hiv-the-law/. The evaluation report and an executive summary have also been posted on the website of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law as part of dissemination efforts aimed at reaching a broader audience. History |
Evaluation recommendation 2.
Apply the lessons to the COVID-19 response and future outbreaks/epidemics/pandemics
Management Response: [Added: 2021/05/18]
Accepted. The lessons learnt documented in the evaluation report can inform the ways in which governments address COVID-19 and future outbreaks/epidemics/pandemics, and how best to strategically engage government as well as civil society and their allies in their response. UNDP and partners are applying lessons from the HIV response and the work to support countries to follow up on the recommendations of the Global Commission to inform COVID-19 responses. This includes highlighting the impact of laws, policies, and gender-related barriers on effective, rights-based pandemic responses to COVID-19.
Key Actions:
Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
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2.1 Support evidence- and rights-based legal frameworks for COVID-19 responses
[Added: 2021/05/18] [Last Updated: 2022/01/31] |
Health Team | 2021/10 | Completed | The COVID-19 Law Lab – a joint initiative of UNDP, WHO, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University, the Inter-Parliamentary Union, and the International Development Law Organization – was designed to address the urgent need for quality legal information, as well as to ensure that governments promote public health while respecting human rights. The initiative has grown to include over 6,000 law and policy documents from over 190 countries, and the database has over 6,500 monthly users. The initiative has collaborated with think tanks, academic institutions and law firms including DLA Piper, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, University of Nairobi, University of Oviedo, Society for Democratic Rights, Torcuato di Tella University Law School, and The Hague University of Applied Sciences. UNDP and the O’Neill Institute are collaborating on a multi-country review to examine the impact of legal responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. History | |
2.2 Address gender-related barriers to COVID-19 response vaccine deployment
[Added: 2021/05/18] [Last Updated: 2021/08/16] |
Health Team and the Gender Equality Working Group of the SDG 3 Global Action Plan | 2021/06 | Completed | The Guidance Note and Checklist for Tackling Gender-related Barriers to Equitable COVID-19 Vaccine Deployment is being disseminated through a variety of websites including UNDP, WHO, GAVI, Gender and Health Hub, New York University, Global Health 50/50. A webinar was hosted by International Institute for Global Health, United Nations University on 3 June 2021 to disseminate the Guidance. Webinar site: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tackling-gender-related-barriers-to-equitable-covid-19-vaccine-deployment-tickets-156226941989 History |
Evaluation recommendation 3.
Incorporate approaches, methodologies, and tools in processes to strengthen evidence- and rights-based national laws, policies, and practices
Management Response: [Added: 2021/05/18]
Accepted. The Global Commission’s investment in multi-stakeholder and multi-sectoral participation and country ownership its work and follow up has enhanced the sustainability of this work. The evaluation report noted the impact of the methodology of conducting legal environment assessments [LEAs] for engaging a broad range of stakeholders and ensuring country ownership of recommendations for action. UNDP continues to use the LEAs to engage stakeholders and incorporate legal and policy reform efforts into national structures.
Key Actions:
Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
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3.1 Strengthening country ownership on advancing enabling legal and policy environments for the HIV response through legal environment assessments
[Added: 2021/05/18] [Last Updated: 2022/01/31] |
Health Team | 2021/12 | Completed | n 2021, UNDP supported legal environment assessments (LEAs) in 16 countries, and worked with governments and civil society to follow up on the recommendations. For example, in Zimbabwe, UNDP, the UNAIDS Secretariat, UN Women and ILO supported parliamentary processes on enabling environments for effective rights-based HIV responses addressing issues such as HIV criminalization, sexual offences provisions of the criminal code, and women’s health. In Zambia, young key populations, healthcare providers and government representatives discussed barriers and gaps in service provision. UNDP supported Chad on a new law protecting the rights of people living with HIV, and Tunisia on the development of a chapter on human rights in the new national strategic plan 2021–2023, developed in consultation with people living with HIV and key populations. History |
Evaluation recommendation 4. Sustain and adapt regional level activities
Management Response: [Added: 2021/05/18]
Accepted. Sustaining regional programmes, especially on politically sensitive issues, will be important to maximize the overall impact at national level over time. UNDP will continue to strengthen the capacity of national duty-bearers and rights-holders to advance inclusive governance and strengthen HIV-related legal and policy environments, including for key populations who continue to bear a disproportionate burden of new HIV infections. For example, building on lessons from the Being LGBTI in regional projects highlighted in the evaluation report, UNDP is implementing the “Inclusive Governance Initiative” in Africa.
Key Actions:
Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
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4.1 Sustaining regional activities to advance inclusive governance
[Added: 2021/05/18] |
Health Team | 2023/03 | Initiated | The aim of the Inclusive Governance Initiative is to support countries in the Africa region to become increasingly accountable to, and inclusive of, their entire populations, including sexual and gender minorities. This in turn will contribute to better laws, more responsive public sector services, and social norms that affirm rights and inclusion for all. Key activities include strengthening the capacity of government officials to collect and analyse data on sexual and gender minorities, and building broad coalitions to promote inclusion for marginalized populations across six countries. |
Evaluation recommendation 5. Support capacity building of stakeholders through peer networks
Management Response: [Added: 2021/05/18]
Accepted. As noted in the evaluation report, the Global Commission on HIV and the Law supported the creation of peer networks of different types of duty-bearers and rights-holders across regions with the knowledge and commitment to drive work within and across countries to strengthen HIV-related legal and policy environments. UNDP will continue to carry out this work. The African Regional Judges’ Forum highlighted in the evaluation report has proven to be successful for advancing evidence- and rights-based legal environments and the rights of people living with and affected by HIV. The peer network model of the regional judges’ forum has been replicated in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and in the Caribbean. UNDP will continue to support peer networks of people living with HIV and key populations globally and regionally.
Key Actions:
Key Action | Responsible | DueDate | Status | Comments | Documents |
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5.1 Addressing discriminatory and punitive law impacting HIV and health through strategic litigation
[Added: 2021/05/18] |
Health Team | 2022/06 | Initiated | UNDP is strengthening the capacity of national stakeholders including civil society and UN entities to use strategic litigation to challenge the discriminatory and punitive laws impacting HIV and health. Two global seminars bringing together 100 participants have provided opportunities for sharing legal strategies, providing technical support to the development of amicus briefs, and sharing lessons learned from strategic litigation efforts across five regions. More region-focused strategic litigation seminars and support are planned. |