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Government of Canada Report to the Secretary General of the United Nations on the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS
January 2006 - December 2007
VI Monitoring and evaluation environment
The Government of Canada is committed to implement specific measures to strengthen accountability and increase transparency and oversight in government operations. Canadian civil society and governments are promoting strengthened monitoring and evaluation initiatives to demonstrate results for Canadians. The challenge in monitoring Canada’s national response to HIV/AIDS is that each level of the response – national, provincial, territorial and community – has its own independent evaluation procedures, often including different targets and indicators to be used in performance measurement.
To guide national action, Leading Together: Canada Takes Action on HIV/AIDS, 2005-2010, introduced broad nation-wide desired outcomes, targets, and recommended actions related to key priorities, including: awareness; social factors driving the epidemic; prevention; diagnosis, care, treatment and support; leadership in global efforts; and the enhancement of frontline capacity. The mandate of the Leading Together Championing Committee is to encourage and monitor the use of the plan, not to measure progress.
The Government of Canada's Federal Initiative to Address HIV/AIDS in Canada includes a Results-Based Management and Accountability Framework, a common monitoring and evaluation plan for the federal investment in HIV/AIDS. The inter-departmental performance management strategy comprises a common data collection plan, evaluation plan, and regular reporting commitments. This framework, when fully implemented, will provide opportunities for shared priority setting, as well as a record of progress towards reaching the federal targets.
The Canadian HIV Vaccine Initiative has an integrated Results-Based Management and Accountability Framework and Risk-Based Audit Framework, developed in collaboration with participating departments/agencies, which provides the means to enhance monitoring, auditing, and reporting, and provide guidance for the evaluation-related activities. In addition to contributing to improvement in management practices and informing decision-making, this framework establishes a commitment to ongoing horizontal performance measurement that will ensure that program activities’ key results contribute to the achievement of each participating department/agency strategic outcomes.
In order to communicate monitoring and evaluation results to civil society, Canada's Report on HIV/AIDS is published annually, providing an account of annual progress to the public. Semi-annual Surveillance Reports, annual HIV/AIDS Epi Updates, and reports from the Enhanced Street Youth Surveillance Study are published, providing a roll up of provincial and territorial HIV/AIDS surveillance data to the national level, and an overview of HIV epidemiology among various risk groups. These reports serve to monitor the state of epidemic, to help guide and evaluate HIV prevention, and to assist with ongoing risk assessment and management.
