• MDGs and HIV

MDGs HIV and AIDS

There is increased acknowledgment in the development community of the links between food insecurity and HIV, and the need to integrate food and nutritional support into response to the HIV epidemic. This guide aims to improve capacity to design and implement food assistance programs in the context of HIV, by providing a set of tools, promising practices and key considerations that enhance the flexibility and appropriateness of programme design and implementation.

The manual begins by describing the food security conceptual framework to be used as a basis for all food assistance interventions. It outlines:

• known and accepted linkages between food security, livelihoods and HIV
• food assistance’s potential role in addressing related vulnerabilities
• international and national food security and nutrition policies, goals and programme resources and mechanisms relevant to food assistance and HIV programmes

It then provides guidance on the full range of conventional project design steps, with a focus on the specific implications of food assistance programming in HIV-affected areas and populations. These steps include:

• vulnerability assessments
• adaptive and integrative programming
• targeting
• ration design
• monitoring and evaluation
• operational modalities

The third part of the report reviews the design and implementation of interventions for key sectoral categories, identifies tools and promising practices, and provides key considerations for addressing specific challenges in the context of HIV. These key sectors include health and nutrition, education, livelihood strategies and social protection, and emergency response.

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