Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS

The Unified Budget and Workplan

The UNAIDS Unified Budget and Workplan (UBW) is a unique mechanism within the system. It is a two-year program budget and work plan that presents the response to HIV/AIDS of 10 different UN organizations (UNAIDS Cosponsors) and the UNAIDS Secretariat which together constitute UNAIDS. It specifies who does what, where, with how much money and where the resources come from. The UBW also includes a Performance Monitoring and Evaluation Framework so that progress can be measured, accountability ensured, and program adjustments be made. The UBW presents a comprehensive picture, both programmatically and financially, of the joint work on HIV/AIDS of eleven UN entities—ten UNAIDS Cosponsors and the UNAIDS Secretariat—at global and regional level. In addition, the UBW document provides summary information on the estimated country level resources of the Cosponsors and Secretariat.

This revised version of the 2006–2007 Unified Budget and Workplan and its Annex contain the Programme Coordinating Board-approved changes made by the Cosponsors and the Secretariat in the Principal and Key Results in order to align the UBW with the recommendations of the Global Task Team on Improving AIDS Coordination among Multilateral Institutions and International Donors. This document also contains the revised achievement indicators of Principal and Key Results.

This Framework, adopted by the 18th PCB in June 2006, is designed to support results-based management, to promote transparency, strengthen accountability, improve reporting, and reflect links between collective and individual levels of effort. It serves as a framework for monitoring and assessing outcomes of UNAIDS effort, promoting cohesiveness in tracking and reporting, and facilitating access to information on progress across UNAIDS. It is a mechanism for generating information for evidence-based decision-making in the Joint Programme.