Amhara Region HIV/AIDS Prevention &Control Coordination Office (Amhara HAPCO)

The National HIV/AIDS prevention and control council (NACS) was established in 2000. Following this the Amhara Regional HIV/AIDS prevention and Control Council Secretariat(ARACS) has been established under proclamation number 17/1993, revision 73/1994. Proclamation (Amharic PDF 170KB).

Later on during Business Process Reengineering, it is named as Amahara region HIV/AIDS Prevention, Control and Coordination Office (HAPCO). Currently it is aggressively playing its mandated role in coordinating the HIV/AIDS prevention and control acctivities in the region whoever the implementer is.

Vision

To see Amhara Region free of HIV/AIDS

Mission

Coordinate HIV/AIDS prevention and control activities of Government sectors NGOs, CBOs, FBOs PLWHA Association and other implementers, build their capacity, leveraging resources from different sources, facilitate Networking and Partnership, establish monitoring and Evaluation system to strengthen & intensify the multi-sectoral HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control responses.

Objectives

• Support institutions to mainstream HIV/AIDS in their development agenda
• Establish and strengthen partnership and networking among different institutions to promote concerted efforts and enhance experience sharing
• Promote the establishment associations of PLWHAs and build their capacity in response to HIV/AIDS
• Promote advocacy among all levels of government administrations through opinion and religious leaders
• Advocate and design system to mobilize the community to participate and own the response especially in provision of care & support.
  

Strategic Response Areas

The regional HIV/AIDS response has two major strategic areas, namely creating enabling environment & priority programmatic thematic areas.

1. Creating enabling environment:

• Capacity building,
• Community mobilization & empowerment,
• Leadership and governance,
• Mainstreaming,
• Coordination, and
• Partnership & networking.

2. Priority programmatic thematic areas :

• Intensifying HIV prevention,
• Increasing access & quality of chronic care & treatment,
• Strengthen care & support, and
• enhance generation & use of strategic information.

for more detail information on each strategic issues see SPM II

Working Principles

• Sense of Urgency
• Gender Sensitivity
• Better Collaboration with PLWHAs
• Result Orientedness
• Sense of Ownershipness
• Multi-Sectoralism
• Partnership/Collaboration

The existing Structure

ANRS HAPCO is a operating body directly accountable to the regional president as any other government bureaus & offices. At the same time HAPCO serves as a secretariat of the HIV/AIDS Prevention &Control Council (HAPCC) and HAPCC board follows & supervises the progress of HAPCO’s implementation of decision made by HAPCC.

HAPCC is a structure that constitutes all the three sectors, namely government, civil and private sector and established to design & provide overall guidance on regional response to HIV/AIDS. HAPCC also has a structure at zone, woreda & Kebele levels.

HAPCO established offices at region, zone and woreda levels. Each structure has a regular reporting, monitoring & programmatic technical relationship.

The revised BPR-To Be Documents for the revised strucreplace existing BPR Process shown on the above structure

1. Joint Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation core process

[ AS IS Final (pdf)] , [To be Final (pdf)],

2. Public Relation Core Process

[ AS IS Final (pdf)] , [To be Final (pdf)]

3. Intensifing Multisectoral Response Core processs

[ AS IS Final (pdf)] , [To be Final (pdf)],

4. Fund Resource Managment Core process

[ AS IS Final (pdf)] , [To be Final (pdf)],

5. Internal Audit Suportive process

[ AS IS Final (pdf)] , [To be Final (pdf)],

6. Human Resource Managment Supportive process

[ AS IS Final (pdf)] , [To be Final (pdf)],

7. Purchase, Finance and Property Administration Supportive Process

[ AS IS Final (pdf)] , [To be Final (pdf)],