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This was highlighted at a forum hosted by the Governance and AIDS Programme (GAP) of African democracy institute Idasa in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, this week. Participants at the forum agreed that African governments need to find mechanisms for domestic resource mobilisation as a matter of urgency as external funding is expected to decline with the problems facing Western economies.
Participants at the forum included members of the Pan African Parliament, the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA), the Alliance of Mayors and Municipal Leaders on HIV and AIDS in Africa (AMICAALL), the Coalition of African Parliamentarians Against HIV and AIDS (CAPAH), the African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF), the East Africa National Networks of AIDS Service Organisations (EANNASO) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
The objective of the forum was to highlight the findings from research on the impact of HIV and AIDS on institutional effectiveness and resource utilisation conducted by Idasa-GAP with local partners in Burundi (Institut de Developpement Economique), Ghana (Integrated Social Development Centre), Namibia (Namibia Institute for Democracy), Uganda (Makerere Institute of Social Research), Zambia (Ruralnet Associates) and Zimbabwe Economic Policy Analysis Research Unit (ZEPARU). In a session on innovative alternatives for raising domestic resources participants heard about mechanisms being explored in Burundi, Ghana and Tanzania. The Zimbabwe National AIDS Council shared their experience with introducing an AIDS levy as part of the tax base to respond to the epidemic.
Other issues raised at the meeting were ways to enhance state and non-state cooperation, developing innovative citizen-based resource mobilisation strategies, accountability and transparent reporting by donors and other stakeholders, as well as strengthening the oversight role of parliaments and councillors.
The importance of deepening community understanding on the mandate of elected representatives was also discussed. The forum examined potential means of domestic revenue collection and local government initiatives to ensure the sustainability of AIDS programmes in Africa.
“This is the third Governance and AIDS forum since the inception of the Governance and AIDS Programme in 2002 and we are beginning to see that empirical evidence on governance, institutional effectiveness, resource utilisation and mobilisation is being taken seriously by policy makers,” said programme director Dr Kondwani Chirambo. “This conference laid the basis for important partnerships to ensure evidence-based and practical policy responses to HIV and AIDS on local, national and regional levels on the continent.”
Idasa is an independent public interest organisation committed to building sustainable democratic societies in collaboration with African and global partners.
For more information contact:
Dr Kondwani Chirambo, Idasa-GAP, kchirambo@idasa.org.za, +27 72 171 1808 / +27 12 392 0500
Participants at the forum included members of the Pan African Parliament, the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA), the Alliance of Mayors and Municipal Leaders on HIV and AIDS in Africa (AMICAALL), the Coalition of African Parliamentarians Against HIV and AIDS (CAPAH), the African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF), the East Africa National Networks of AIDS Service Organisations (EANNASO) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
The objective of the forum was to highlight the findings from research on the impact of HIV and AIDS on institutional effectiveness and resource utilisation conducted by Idasa-GAP with local partners in Burundi (Institut de Developpement Economique), Ghana (Integrated Social Development Centre), Namibia (Namibia Institute for Democracy), Uganda (Makerere Institute of Social Research), Zambia (Ruralnet Associates) and Zimbabwe Economic Policy Analysis Research Unit (ZEPARU). In a session on innovative alternatives for raising domestic resources participants heard about mechanisms being explored in Burundi, Ghana and Tanzania. The Zimbabwe National AIDS Council shared their experience with introducing an AIDS levy as part of the tax base to respond to the epidemic.
Other issues raised at the meeting were ways to enhance state and non-state cooperation, developing innovative citizen-based resource mobilisation strategies, accountability and transparent reporting by donors and other stakeholders, as well as strengthening the oversight role of parliaments and councillors.
The importance of deepening community understanding on the mandate of elected representatives was also discussed. The forum examined potential means of domestic revenue collection and local government initiatives to ensure the sustainability of AIDS programmes in Africa.
“This is the third Governance and AIDS forum since the inception of the Governance and AIDS Programme in 2002 and we are beginning to see that empirical evidence on governance, institutional effectiveness, resource utilisation and mobilisation is being taken seriously by policy makers,” said programme director Dr Kondwani Chirambo. “This conference laid the basis for important partnerships to ensure evidence-based and practical policy responses to HIV and AIDS on local, national and regional levels on the continent.”
Idasa is an independent public interest organisation committed to building sustainable democratic societies in collaboration with African and global partners.
For more information contact:
Dr Kondwani Chirambo, Idasa-GAP, kchirambo@idasa.org.za, +27 72 171 1808 / +27 12 392 0500
