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COUNTRY PROGRESS REPORTP h i l i p p i n e sSECTION 4.0GOOD PRACTICESIn the coordination of the development of this Progress Report, the members of the M&EWorking Group were encouraged to invite partner-organizations to submit good practicedocumentation in the areas of political leadership, supportive policy environment, scale-up ofeffective prevention and treatment, care and support programs, and capacity building. Theintention was for the Working Group to adopt the process undertaken from the 2008 and 2010UNGASS reporting. But no good practice documentation was submitted within the very limitedtime of this Report’s preparation. However, other “good practice” documentation eventuallyemerged, and considered for citation in this Report. One documentation source came from the2011 Innovative Approaches series of the UNDP Asia-Pacific Regional Centre, the other wasrealized from actual submissions for the 2009-2011 Report of the Philippine National AIDSCouncil, whose preparation coincided with this Report.As noted from the country’s 2010UNGASS report, some good practicessubmissions were actually “still in theearly stage(s) of implementation, butconsidered because (of reported) goodresults and… potentials for sustainabilityand replicability” (PNAC, “2010UNGASS”). The National M&E System,recognizing these good practices weredocumented “too early to look at impact”is committed to continuously monitorprogress of reported good practices(Ibid.). In the 2008 UNGASS report, asocial mobilization approach espousedby TLF Sexuality, Health and RightsEducators Collective (TLF-SHARE) wasdocumented in a submission entitled“Integrating Community Organizing withScaling Up of Prevention and Care of STIand HIV among MSM” (PNAC, “2008UNGASS”). Progress of TLF-SHARE’sprogram was part of UNDP’s 2011Innovative Approaches publications,from one entitled “StrengtheningCommunity Leadership among Men whohave Sex with Men and TransgenderPersons,” (UNDP, “Strengthening,” 2012)described below:This document showcases the work and lessons learned of a programme UNDP developedin partnership with Health Action Information Network and TLF-SHARE that producedand disseminated strategic information on MSM and transgender people in order to buildgreater understanding of the behaviors, motivations, needs and background of these keypopulations, and critically assess current interventions… (This) research fed into nationaland local policy-making, programmatic planning and strengthened advocacy and localprogramming capacity of community-based organizations. (Settle, 2012)2012 Global AIDS Response Progress Report 23