The PCB recommended that its next meeting take place in Brazil on 14 and 15 December 2000, with field visits on 13 December. The PCB further confirmed that the main theme on the agenda would be the Global Strategy Framework and the UN System Strategic Plan, 2001-2005.

The PCB encouraged all countries to intensify efforts and to ensure adequate funding of comprehensive, multisectoral responses to the epidemic at all levels.

The PCB acknowledged the role of the Geneva-based Permanent Missions to the United Nations in advocating, among other things, full funding of the 2000-2001 Unified Budget and Workplan.

The PCB urged Member States to transfer funds as early as possible in the biennium to ensure adequate cash flow and avoid disruption of activities.

Recalling its recommendation at its regular meeting in June 1999, the PCB urged Member States to provide full funding for the UNAIDS 2000-2001 Unified Budget and Workplan. Countries are also encouraged to make multi- year pledges to UNAIDS in order to increase the predictability of resources during the biennium.

The PCB noted the importance of strategic information on national and donor responses to AIDS to assist policy makers allocate scarce resources, and urged the Secretariat to strengthen its capacity to collate and analyze such information.

Consistent with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) resolution 1999/36 of 28/97/99, the PCB urged Cosponsors to complete the development of their institutional strategies, and to submit to their go verning bodies their proposed contribution to the United Nations System Strategic Plan 2001-2005.

The PCB reaffirmed its request to the Secretariat to proceed with the development of the UN System Strategic Plan 2001-2005 in broad consultation with UN system and other partners. The PCB endorsed the proposed process and requested the Secretariat to table a working draft of the elaborated UN System Strategic Plan for discussion at its December 2000 Thematic meeting.

The PCB urged its members to fully engage in consultations through existing fora – including regional and sub-regional fora – to finalize the Global Strategy Framework.

The PCB welcomed the update on the development of the Global Strategy Framework and urged the Secretariat, Cosponsors and other partners to accelerate and intensify efforts to finalize the Framework for discussion at the Thematic PCB meeting in December 2000, and take appropriate steps to ensure that it is well reflected in the development of the UN System Strategic Plan 2001-2005.

Highlight the need to reduce discriminatory environments and practices towards education personnel and pupils affected by HIV. For this purpose, the strengthening of voluntary counselling and testing services should be one strategy.

That the process endorsed above be expanded in the following ways:

• broaden the scope and composition of the UNAIDS Interagency Working Group on Education to include other key players and agencies involved in formal and nonformal AIDS and sexuality education programmes, and link its efforts to existing subregional, regional, and other informal global structures and mechanisms;
• highlight the positive role of the education sector as an HIV/AIDS prevention platform, thereby addressing the diversity of needs of a full range of countries, including those less affected;

The PCB welcomed the document on HIV/AIDS and the Education Sector and endorsed the process for developing a coordinated strategy in the education sector to support and strengthen regional and national responses. The PCB recommended the following:

That UNAIDS in cooperation with Cosponsors strengthen advocacy for:

• mobilization of resources for the education sector to reinforce its capacity in general and more specifically to build up a more proactive role in HIV prevention and AIDS impact alleviation;

The PCB recommended that the UNAIDS Secretariat:

• continues the coordination and facilitation of the IPAA;
• sets up a monitoring and evaluation system, based on existing mechanisms in order to measure the progress of the IPAA;
• reports on progress by countries at national, regional/ subregional and local levels;
• finalizes the work on a costing exercise for the implementation of the framework for action;