Final Report on the AIDS Community Action Program (ACAP) Program Review

September 2006
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Table of Contents

• EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND OVERVIEW OF RECOMMENDATIONS
• 1. BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT
  • 1.1 The Federal Role in Addressing HIV/AIDS
  • 1.2 ACAP Program Description
  • 1.3 Rationale for the Program Review
• 2. PROGRAM REVIEW METHODOLOGY
• 3. PHASE I FINDINGS
  • 3.1 ACAP’s Contribution to the CSHA
  • 3.2 ACAP’s Potential to Contribute to the FI
• 4. PHASE I SYNTHESIS: OPPORTUNITIES FOR ACAP’S ALIGNMENT WITH THE FI
  • 4.1 ACAP’s Areas of Emphasis
  • 4.2 ACAP Evaluations
  • 4.3 Articulating the Links between ACAP and the FI
  • 4.4 The Focus on Vulnerable Populations
  • 4.5 An Integrated Approach
  • 4.6 Addressing the Broader Determinants of Health
  • 4.7 Managing ACAP Funding
  • 4.8 Project Administration
  • 4.9 Balancing National Consistency and Regional Flexibility
  • 4.10 Strengthening the Role of the PHAC Regional Offices
  • 4.11 FI Resources
  • 4.12 Intergovernmental Collaboration
• 5. CONSIDERATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
  • 5.1 Context for the Recommendations
  • 5.2 Recommendations
    • 5.2.1 ACAP Focus, Activities, and Outcomes
      • ACAP’s purpose, approaches, principles, and outcomes
      • ACAP support for strategic issues
    • 5.2.2 ACAP Funding Modalities
      • Rationale for operational and time-limited project funding
      • Operational funding for HIV/AIDS organizations
      • Strengthening current operational funding practices
      • Strengthening time-limited project funding
      • Strengthening ACAP’s work with organizations whose primary mandate is not HIV/AIDS
    • 5.2.3 ACAP Funding Administration
      • The distribution of funds between operational and project funding
      • Regional and national congruence
    • 5.2.4 ACAP Performance Management Systems
      • ACAP evaluation
      • ACAP administrative and reporting practices
    • 5.2.5 ACAP Resources and Governance
      • ACAP resources within the PHAC regional offices
      • Organizational links between ACAP and the FI
      • FI governance
• 6. CONCLUSION
• APPENDIX 1: ACAP DOCUMENTS REVIEWED
• APPENDIX 2: DOCUMENT REVIEW SUMMARY REPORT
• APPENDIX 3: CONSULTATION SUMMARY REPORT
• APPENDIX 4: OUTCOMES FOR ACAP
• APPENDIX 5: OUTCOMES FOR THE FEDERAL INITIATIVE
• BIBLIOGRAPHY

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