Presentations

-Designed specifically to support the Activity Based Costing Approach -Logical menu-driven sequence of steps -Allows mapping of expenditure types to government accounting framework -Supports complete cycle of planning, budgeting, operations and evaluation -Inflation capability at users discretion -Financing gap analysis

Objectives: • To assess the costing tools commonly used in countries in Asia-Pacific based on a set of technical and user criteria developed at the meeting. • To develop harmonized guidance for countries on appropriate tools for costing the HIV response depending on intended purpose. • To consider next steps for country level coordination for dissemination of costing guidance and piloting costing tools, and for identifying technical needs and ensuing technical support and capacity building. • To identify organizations that will take forward any further technical development of costing models, and the ensuing technical support and capacity building.

• Evidence of large growing concentrated Indian sub-epidemics • National response had low prevention coverage of high risk groups (HRG) • Prevention for concentrated epidemics via HRG focus well known • Few successful examples globally • International advocacy about "prevention gap"

• Forecasting, budgeting, costing • Unit costing • Linkages • Costing procedures • Resource tracking • Targets • Cost effectiveness • Minimum package of services • Financial gap analysis

Presentation on Integrating Gender Perspectives and Programs into Costing of HIV Responses at the Expert Consultation on Costing HIV Responses in Asia – Pacific, 29 October 2010

It is important to develop harmonized guidance on the appropriate tools for costing the HIV response mainly because: a. There are costing tools better suited for certain purposes than for others b. Different Technical Support providers prefer using their own costing tools c. Costing tools of different donor agencies may conflict with those normally used by the govt. d. Each donor agency has its own costing guidelines, which may confuse some country programs e. Country capacity building in costing would be facilitated

This is a presentation on the Introduction to the Asian HIV/AIDS Resource Needs Estimation and Costing Model (The Asian Model). This was presented during the Expert Consultation on Costing HIV Responses in Asia-Pacific, 28-29 October 2010.

This is a presentation on the Marginal Budgeting for Bottlenecks (Sri Lanka Example). This was presented at the Amari Watergate Hotel on 27-29 October 2010.

What is the goal of scenario building in HIV? • To help decision makers understand the consequences of their actions and their impact on the HIV epidemic • To provide them the information (costs, infections averted, approaches needed, etc.) to make decisions with maximum effects

Presentation on Country Costing Needs or Whose Reality Counts? at UCC Thailand 28-29 October 2010