zanzibar aids commission (zac) - Global HIV M&E Information

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plans were health oriented with a focus on: Motivating behavior change; Ensuring blood safety;
Counseling and caring for PLHA; and Community involvement. In 1998 to 2000 the RGoZ Medium
Term Plan III then provided a framework for a multisectoral response to fight HIV&AIDS with the
recognition that HIV is not only a health problem but also a major social and economic crisis.
In 2002 RGoZ established the Zanzibar AIDS Commission (ZAC) with the mandate of leading, managing
and coordinating the National Multisectoral Response to HIV in Zanzibar through the development and
implementation of the five year Zanzibar National HIV&AIDS Strategic Plan 2004/5- 2008/9 (ZNSP).
Today, Zanzibar has mobilized all sectors with a lot of achievements in all areas of implementing the
ZNSP. The ZNSP recognises the need for intensifying Monitoring and Evaluation of the national
HIV&AIDS response in the Isles. As such ZAC, with main support from The World Bank 4 , UNAIDS,
and other stakeholders has established and has commenced to implement key components of a
comprehensive national multisectoral HIV M&E system.
The Zanzibar National Multisectoral HIV M&E System
The Goal of the Zanzibar National Multisectoral HIV M&E System is to enable ZAC and its partners to
monitor the spread and impact of the epidemic in Zanzibar, to monitor the efficiency of the national
response to HIV, and to evaluate the effectiveness of the national response to HIV, using relevant and
accurate HIV data for use in planning effective interventions. This would result in an evidence based
multisectoral approach towards planning for the interventions against HIV. The objectives of the System
are to:
i. Develop clear M&E strategies that will enable systematic collection of data that can be used to
detect changes in the epidemic and effects of interventions (efficiency and effectiveness) and then
inform and guide the national HIV response.
ii. Define the roles of stakeholders – ZAC, Ministries, Departments and Agencies, local government,
networks and umbrella organizations and Civil Society organizations (CSOs) – in the systematic
collection, collation, analysis and use of HIV data in order to avoid duplication of efforts.
iii. Improve information sharing and dissemination of information and the use of data in planning
interventions.
4 This includes financial and technical support from World Bank Tanzania and World Bank Global AIDS M&E Team (GAMET)
TOR for ZAC M&E Advisor April 20 th 2007 to April 19 th 2008