Develop an annual costed national M&E work plan, including the specific and costed HIV M&E activities of all relevant stakeholders and identified sources of funding. Use this plan for coordination and assessing progress of M&E implementation throughout the year.
The following elements are in place:
- The M&E work plan contains activities, responsible implementers, timeframe, activity costs and identified funding.
- The M&E work plan explicitly links to the work plans and government Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) budgets of the NAC.
- Resources (human, physical, financial) are committed to implement the M&E work plan.
- All relevant stakeholders endorsed the national M&E work plan.
- The M&E work plan is updated annually based on performance monitoring.
For the national HIV M&E plan to be operationalised, an annual costed national M&E work plan needs to be developed that describes the priority M&E activities for the year with defined responsibilities for implementation, costs for each activity, identified funding, and a clear timeline for delivery of outputs. This work plan enables the NAC and the national M&E TWG to ensure that financial and human resources are mobilized and allows for monitoring progress towards implementation of one national HIV M&E system.
The costed national M&E work plan should reflect agreement on who will implement and finance each activity. The costed national M&E work plan is not the NAC work plan for M&E; rather, it is a joint work plan that integrates the HIV M&E activities of all relevant stakeholders.
It allows all stakeholders to plan and work together in a harmonized way; this is why it must be developed with input and agreement from all key stakeholders. M&E work plans may also be developed at the sub-national and service delivery levels to guide M&E implementation linked to the national HIV M&E system. The annual M&E work planning cycle should be closely linked to the overall budgeting cycle for HIV to ensure that funding can be secured for implementation of the plan.