The PCB requested that the Secretariat report annually on progress made in the further development and implementation of the Monitoring and Evaluation Plan as a part of the Executive Director’s Report to the PCB.

The PCB encouraged national governments to strengthen their monitoring and evaluation efforts and to intensify collaboration with the UNAIDS Cosponsors and Secretariat in reporting regularly on the status and response to the global epidemic.

The PCB encouraged the Cosponsors to strengthen the internal monitoring and evaluation of their HIV/AIDS related programmes. The PCB further requested the Secretariat to work closely with the Cosponsors to coordinate their internal, external and joint monitoring and evaluation efforts on HIV/AIDS, emphasizing a common framework, formats and indicators.

The PCB encouraged its Members to raise within the governing boards of the Cosponsors the need for further commitment to their individual and collective responsibilities in the response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, emphasizing the clarification of roles and responsibilities required to improve accountability for programme performance and implementation.

The PCB noted with appreciation the decision of the CCO to complete UN System Integrated Workplans in all countries through the Theme Group Mechanism by the year 2000. The PCB requested that the CCO directly monitor progress in completing these workplans and to regularly report to the PCB on this key benchmark of interagency collaboration at country level.

The PCB requested an intensification of current efforts to develop the UN System Integrated Workplan and Budget for the 2000-2001 biennium at the global and regional levels in order to further define the responsibilities of the UNAIDS Cosponsors and Secretariat, including their monitoring and evaluation responsibilities.

The PCB requested that the Secretariat and Cosponsors continue to collaborate in the further development of the plan, taking into consideration the need for:

• further distinction of those efforts focussed on the monitoring and evaluation of the global response to HIV/AIDS from that of the performance of the UNAIDS Cosponsors and Secretariat;
• closer linkage with the UN Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) including attention to the relationships between HIV/AIDS and development policy and programme efforts;

The PCB endorsed the approach and priorities described within the Monitoring and Evaluation Plan (UNAIDS/PCB(7)/98.4), welcoming the emphasis within the plan on the further elaboration of the specific roles and responsibilities of the Secretariat and the Cosponsors. The PCB further urged the Secretariat and the Cosponsors to accelerate the implementation of the plan, including initiating global monitoring at each of the four levels of the logical framework, using the best available indicators.