HIV/AIDS Capacity Building Summit
Objectives
1. Define the continuum of capacity building approaches within the HIV/AIDS sector, and identify those that have been most successful in improving services and program management.
2. Share challenges faced in building capacity to respond to HIV/AIDS, and steps taken to overcome those challenges.
3. Build consensus around the future direction of capacity building for HIV/AIDS, identify approaches to scale-up, and develop advocacy plans to forward this vision.
Agenda
Day 1
8:30 Registration
9:00-9:20 Welcome/Introduction
Pact and USAID
9:30-10:45 Plenary Session & Discussion: Defining Capacity Building within a Continuum
Pact and Management Sciences for Health
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-12:15 Panel Discussion: Visions of Success and Challenges
Academy for Educational Development, World Learning and Pact ResNet Africa
12:15-1:15 Lunch
1:15-2:15 Marketplace
Interactive Session – Practitioners from numerous organizational and country contexts will
present their proven practices from HIV/AIDS Capacity Building programs
2:15-3:40 Breakout Groups: Discussion on Thematic Based Capacity Building
3:40-3:50 Break
3:50-4:45 Plenary session: Breakout groups report back
4:45-5:00 Conclusion
Day 2
9:00-10:15 Panel Discussion: The Future of Capacity Building within HIV/AIDS
Root Change and International HIV/AIDS Alliance
10:15-11:30 Breakout Groups: Where should capacity building be in ten years time?
11:30-11:45 Break
11:45-12:45 Plenary Discussion: Highlights of Summary Vision Discussion
12:45-1:45 Lunch
Keynote Speaker: Joan Holloway, OGAC
1:45-2:45 Plenary session: Discussion of Upcoming Initiatives
Management Sciences for Health
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-4:15 Synthesis Session: How will we get there?
4:15-4:45 Summary Conclusion
USAID and Pact
4:45-5:30 Marketplace - Round 2
5:30-7:30 Reception
