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What is Value for Money? A community Perspective

Presented by Alvaro Bermejo, Executive Director, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance 

In an environment of spending cuts, increased scrutiny of public spending has magnified the need to deliver results and demonstrate value for money. Few sectors have been able to analyse the cost of interventions and articulate future finan-cial scenarios to achieve the MDGs. The HIV sector, on the other hand, has a track record in monitoring national expendi-ture right down to the community level. We therefore have access to information to inform our understanding of the cost of community interventions. But measuring value for money is not that simple.

The challenge in the value for money debate is to understand what „value‟ means from the point of view of communities. For example, how do we measure concepts such as empow-erment, or capacity building? The International HIV/AIDS Alli-ance („the Alliance‟) has kept abreast of this emerging dis-course. Steps have been taken to define our approach both at an organisational level as well as in using value for money practices within our programming. The Alliance has piloted several in-depth, value-for-money studies and has began en-gaging around a new "investment framework" in order to demonstrate the major efficiency gains community mobilisa-tion can bring to the national HIV response.

This presentation will address issues related to the new HIV/AIDS investment framework, Value for Money de-bates, and how the HIV/AIDS response can deliver Value for Money.

Registration is required to Nanna Gode Hansen at NANNHA@UM.DK.

For further information please visit www.aidsalliance.org.

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