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About the e-Forum

Background:
• The Three Ones principles, launched in Washington on 25 April 2004, by UNAIDS in collaboration with national HIV/AIDS programmes, bilateral donors and the Global Fund, reinforce the commitment by international stakeholders to harmonize the response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. UNAIDS was tasked at the Washington meeting to be a facilitator and mediator among stakeholders in the application of the “Three Ones” principles as well as monitoring and reporting on progress and emerging challenges to concerted action on AIDS at country level. As part of this role, UNAIDS is providing this web-based platform and moderators for a global consultation on civil society engagement and the Three Ones.

Purpose:
• To facilitate broader civil society input into the Three Ones Process.

Process:
• The e-Forum will use an email distribution list linked to a public web interface so that participants will be able to contribute either through email only or via the web. There will be a series of four consultations, or questions for discussion. Each consultation will last two weeks, with a week in between for summary and reflection. Moderators will be available throughout to guide the process and provide content-specific feedback to contributors.

The schedule of discussions is as follows, but the topics for discussion may change based on prior discussions and issues of interest raised by the participants.

Topic 1: How has civil society contributed to application of the Three Ones principles so far?

Accepting contributions: February 23 – March 13
Summary and reflection week : March 14 – 20

Topic 2: What have been the facilitating factors behind civil society involvement or contributions to the application of the “Three Ones”? What barriers were encountered and how were these addressed?

Accepting contributions: March 21 – April 3
Summary week : April 4 – 10

Topic 3: To be determined

Accepting contributions: April 11 – 24
Summary week : April 25 – May 1

Topic 4: To be determined

Accepting contributions: May 2 - 15
Summary week : May 16 – 22

Summary and evaluation of e-Forum: May 23 - 31

To subscribe, contact pouezevaras@unaids.org with your name, organization and email address.

Message from Peter Piot

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

As part of UNAIDS’ continued efforts to facilitate the application of the Three Ones, I would like to invite you to participate in a moderated “e-forum” discussion on “civil society and the Three Ones”.

Our goal is to facilitate a meaningful discussion across the globe on the critical role of each stakeholder in the realization of the Three Ones at country level.

National AIDS programmes, civil society, key donors and UNAIDS endorsed the Three Ones principles in April 2004 to achieve the most effective and efficient use of resources, and to ensure rapid action and results-based management. The Three Ones are:

• One agreed HIV/AIDS action framework that provides the basis for coordinating the work of all partners.
• One national AIDS coordinating authority, with a broad based multi-sector mandate.
• One agreed AIDS country-level monitoring and evaluation system.

When applied in an inclusive manner, these principles build partnerships to support national ownership of the AIDS response, coordinate the participation of all key stakeholders and improve transparency and accountability of resources and investments. To assist in the consistent application of the Three Ones UNAIDS is seeking broad feedback and further stakeholder engagement. As part of this work a series of questions will be posted on the e-forum for three months from 14 February 2004. To take part in the Three Ones e-forum, please visit the UNAIDS website homepage (www.unaids.org) and click on the link to the e-forum.

Thank you in advance for your participation, and please forward this e-mail to others who may be interested.

I look forward to following the discussion and sharing your views with other UNAIDS key global, regional and national stakeholders.

Yours sincerely,

Peter Piot
UNAIDS Executive Director

13 January 2005