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Budget advocacy school for organizations working in the field of HIV with teenagers and youth was held in Kyiv
During 5 days the participants got acquainted with the budget advocacy cycle from analyzing problems to the practical development of budget advocacy plans.

Technical support visit took place in Dnipropetrovsk region
(Українська) Захід пройшов задля забезпечення стійкості послуг в сфері ВІЛ/СНІДу та туберкульозу в рамках плану переходу 20-50-80.

Budget Advocacy School “Local Budgets For Harm Reduction” was held in Kyiv
Twenty non-governmental organizations working in the field of public health participated in the Budget Advocacy School supported by the International Renaissance Foundation.

Provision of harm reduction services for HIV-positive people at the expense of local budgets
Aware of the importance of implementing the Transition Plan in Ukraine, public institutions are taking responsibility for expanding quality services for HIV-positive people, including IDUs at the regional level.

Transition of Substitutional Maintenance Therapy for Injecting Drug Users from Donor to Budget Funding in Ukraine
Efficient advocacy strategy should include a ready solution for the government.

For the first time the procurement of NGO social services took place in Odessa region
(Українська) Відтепер люди, які вживають наркотики ін’єкційно, та потребують лікування туберкульозу в стаціонарних умовах ЛПУ зможуть отримувати послуги зменшення шкоди та супроводу до програм ЗПТ від неурядових організацій за кошти з обласного бюджету.

NGO control organization over the implementation of HIV/AIDS response programs
Public monitoring of regional HIV/AIDS response programs allows us to trace the dynamics of the amount of money spent from local budgets and the compliance of this process with the Transition Plan from donor to budget financing.

Involvement of non-governmental organization experts in activity of state institutions
Participation of NGO social workers into narcological dispensaries and regional AIDS centers staff will increase the quality of medical and social support for clients and provide the constancy of NGO services.

Summer Budget Advocacy School took place in Odessa
Budget Advocacy School for the community of convicts and prisoners took place in sunny Odessa.

Procurement of new alternative drugs for VHC treatment
The procurement of a new low-cost alternative drug for viral hepatitis C treatment was advocated at All-Ukrainian level.

Budget Advocacy School experts took part at the XXII International AIDS Conference
In Amsterdam the best results of global research and innovation in HIV/AIDS were presented.

Development and adoption of Transition Plan to ensure the sustainable comprehensive measures for HIV/AIDS response
Місцева та регіональна влада приділятиме все більше уваги фінансуванню заходів протидії тяжким захворюванням.

Budget Advocacy School for TB Community took place in Kyiv
Representatives of TB community from 11 regions of Ukraine studied new efficient tools and practices in the field of budget advocacy.

Budget Advocacy School took place in Kyrgyzstan
Practices and cases of Ukrainian experts in the field of budget advocacy are widely applicable in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

Another Budget Advocacy School took place in Kyiv
International communities are increasingly choosing the BAS as the best format for conducting trainings on budget advocacy.

Budget Advocacy School for palliative care took place in Kyiv
The complex of efficient trainings in Budget Advocacy School format is universal, it can be applied in any industry.

Medical and social services procurement for injecting drug users through the social ordering program
An efficient way to ensure the sustainability of integrated social services is procurement through the program of solving priority questions by using social ordering mechanism.

Implementation of the social ordering mechanism from the regional council for HIV/AIDS measures
The mechanism of social ordering enables to ensure efficient and transparent use of local budgets, taking into account the specific needs of the target groups of the region.

The mechanism for purchasing social services through the ProZorro electronic system
The mechanism for purchasing services through the ProZorro electronic system allows ensuring the efficient and transparent use of local budget funds.

Budget Advocacy School was held in Poltava for CO “Positive Women”
Budget Advocacy School experts conducted the 4-day training "Budget advocacy school. Increase of HIV-positive women community capacity"

Harm reduction programs: from fantasy to implementation
If you returned to times of the first syringe exchange in Sumy, everything that is happening now would seem like an incredible stuff.

Development of social enterprises and education & production centers in cooperation with local government
The social enterprise will create jobs for people who aren’t able to find work themselves.

Development of social services ordering
Non-governmental organizations have the opportunity to provide quality social services for state through the social ordering mechanism.

Financing of harm reduction programs from local budgets in the context of HIV/AIDS response
Budget financing of harm reduction programs will minimize the negative consequences of drug addiction and the spread of HIV/AIDS at the local level.

Organization of service procurement to support and care for children living with HIV/AIDS
ProZorro procurement mechanism allows to purchase quality services and efficiently use budget funds.

Implementation of Transition Plan from donor to budget financing of HIV/AIDS response measures
The model working out of government services procurement in the framework of the implementation of the plan for the transition from donor to budget financing of HIV / AIDS measures is a strategically important task for the future of the NGO work.

Mechanism for public works financing
Organization of paid social works helps the state to take part in payment for work of persons who will work on NGO basis. By this, the state participated in solving socially important tasks on which the public activists had worked on a voluntary basis before.

Calculation of planned and actual provision of Ukrainian regions with medicines for HIV/AIDS, TB and VHC
The advocacy of allocating budget funds for HIV/AIDS, TB and VHC treatment requires a thorough analytical study of the problem state and actual state of the region's medicines provision for these needs.

Inclusion of non-governmental organizations in the list of regional medical and social programs realizers
NGO involvement in social programs as realizer is the first step to the institutionalization of non-governmental organization services.

Visualization as a tool in advocacy campaign
Products of information design allow to convey complicated information in a simplified and effective way to the target audience in the advocacy process.

Receiving premises and preferential rental terms
The preferential rental terms provide the sustainability of NGO services. Such option allows freeing up resources that can be directed to expanding service volumes and, accordingly, more people will be able to get the help they need.

Procurement efficiency analysis of profiled health care institutions – analytical reports formation
The work on monitoring of expenditure rationality of profiled health care institutions has begun its work in 6 regions of Ukraine.

Appeals of procurements which contain detected violations
Procurement monitoring for violations and timely response promotes the rational use of budget funds by customers.

Budget financing of substitution maintenance therapy for HIV/AIDS response
(Українська) Бюджетне фінансування закупівлі препаратів ЗПТ сприяє протидії поширенню ВІЛ-інфекції серед груп ризику.