General; Tool

A monitoring tool on access to care, treatment and support, sexual and reproductive health and rights and violence against women created by and for HIV positive women, updated 2006.

In February 2005, the international Community of Women Living with HIV and AIDS (ICW) in collaboration with ActionAid-managed initiative Support for the International Partnership against AIDS in Africa (SIPAA), carried out workshops in Swaziland and Lesotho. The workshops aimed to examine the national response of each country to the HIV and AIDS pandemic, with particular reference to international policy commitments (in particular the GIPA principle, the Abuja Agreement of 2001, and the UNGASS Declaration of Commitment of 2001). First was an analysis of the lived experiences of the participants. An analysis of the documents was undertaken, first to see to what extent they addressed the rights, needs and concerns of HIV positive women, and second to see whether HIV positive women had experienced the effects of those political commitments on the ground. Further analysis was carried out into the monitoring and reporting systems used to report on progress against international policy processes, and finally, workshop participants developed their own monitoring and evaluation tool, to assess progress on issues both included and not included in the international policy documents.