encourages UNAIDS to build on work by OECD/DAC to develop principles of good practice for effective coordination and harmonization at the national level; to set clear and specific guidelines for the inclusion of civil society and People Living with HIV and AIDS organizations in partnership forums and other national coordination bodies, and to facilitate efforts to better coordinate funding within the national AIDS strategic framework.

further endorses specific actions (listed under UNAIDS/PCB 15.04.4) by UNAIDS to support the implementation of the ‘Three Ones’ at country level, including selection of a number of countries to identify good practices in countryspecific situations, and to plan for these actions in the next biennium’s Unified Budget and Workplan; and

Recognizing the need to further promote coherence in actions at country-level and the importance of the ‘Three Ones” (one agreed HIV/AIDS action framework that provides for the basis for coordinating the work of all partners; one national AIDS coordinating authority, with a broad-based multisectoral mandate; and one agreed country- level monitoring and evaluation system); and taking note of the growing support for harmonization at country level, the Programme Coordinating Board:

recognizes the essential role of civil society in the multisectoral response to HIV/AIDS, and requests UNAIDS, in partnership with civil society representatives, to establish indicators to more formally identify, document, and evaluate best practices of civil society. These indicators should relate to the goals of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, the ‘Three Ones’, the ‘3 by 5’ Initiative and the UN System Strategic Plan for HIV/AIDS for 2001-2005.

recognizes that the sustainable implementation of the “Three Ones” remains a challenge, especially as we move toward the 2006 UN General Assembly review of the UN Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, and requests UNAIDS to facilitate further harmonization of global monitoring and evaluation systems, and their alignment to country systems.

The Programme Coordinating Board takes note of the progress on implementation of the “Three Ones”.

urges UNAIDS to continue to lead in building capacity and political support for the implementation at country level of the “Three Ones”, taking into account the recommendations in the Global Task Team report, through the development of tools and guidelines and monitoring and evaluation mechanisms, to strengthen national authorities and the participation of country level stakeholders including civil society; and

encourages UNAIDS Secretariat and Cosponsors and UN Country Teams to strengthen their support for the greater coherence and accountability of AIDS responses, through the adoption and implementation of the “Three Ones” principles in all countries, the integration of AIDS harmonization into the broader development agenda while continuing to recognize the exceptionality of AIDS, and the strengthening of greater coordination and alignment of monitoring and evaluation approaches;

Urges UNAIDS and partners to support the finalization and piloting of guidelines and to provide resources to support civil society involvement in the implementation of the “Three Ones” and to ensure strengthened national AIDS responses through more inclusive and coordinated stakeholder action;

Urges all partners to ensure that the provision of technical and financial support to national AIDS responses is fully harmonized and aligned in accordance with the “Three Ones” principles, and the 2003 Rome and 2005 Paris Declarations on Aid Effectiveness;