The impact of the transition from the Global Fund support to national funding on the sustainability of harm reduction programs in Romania is discussed in details below.
The impact of the transition from the Global Fund support to national funding on the sustainability of harm reduction programs in Bulgaria is discussed in details below.
The impact of the transition from the Global Fund support to national funding on the sustainability of harm reduction programs in Macedonia is discussed in details below.
The impact of the transition from the Global Fund support to national funding on the sustainability of harm reduction programs in Albania is discussed in details below.
At the same time, after a period of exponential growth in international aid for health, the economic crisis resulted in decrease of donors’ funding available for developing countries, including for HIV and TB programs, and in particular this is the case for the support available from the Global Fund.
Seeking to evaluate the processes and consequences of the transition from the Global Fund financing of HIV response among key affected populations with the sustainability of harm reduction services, a number of case studies were developed on some of Balkan countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Romania and Montenegro).
The development of these case studies was guided by a Transition Readiness Assessment Tool (TRAT) developed to analyze the readiness and risks of transition from donor funding to sustainable domestic financing, identifying key barriers that must be addressed before sustainable transition is possible with a particular emphasis on assessing the sustainability of harm reduction services through and beyond the transition period.
Transition Readiness Assessment Tool (TRAT)
Transition Readiness Assessment Tool. User Manual
The Impact of Transition from Global Fund Support to Governmental Funding on the Sustainability of Harm Reduction Programs:
Case Study from Bosnia and Herzegovina
Source of the original content – Eurasian Harm Reduction Network
Given the breadth of themes, this document provides a framework for key focus areas across the STC Policy, principles and main aspects of transition preparedness, a number of transversal, cross-cutting themes related to STC policy and the future priorities for STC policy implementation.
The full version of the document can be found by link: http://eecaplatform.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/bm37_17-sustainabilitytransitionandco-financing_update_en.pdf
Eurasian harm reduction Association (further EHRA) announces a tender for the selection of translators and editors for a long-term cooperation with EHRA.
Based on the results of the tender, EHRA will select several consultants ,with whom EHRA will conclude long-term contracts.
More information about the Association and specifics of the work you can find on our website https://old.harmreductioneurasia.org
Type and subject of the tender:
As part of its work, EHRA requires quality translations of various types of documents, reports and publications, such as guidelines and methodologies, analytical articles, blogs, and informational texts for the website, reports on the implementation of projects of various partners and donors:
Also, as part of its work, EHRA requires quality editing and proofreading of various types of documents, reports and publications:
As a result of the tender, consultants with the highest amount of points for each of the following category of work will be chosen:
– (TRE) translation from Russian to English language,
– (TER) translation from English to Russian language,
– (TLE) translation from Lithuanian to English language,
– (TEL) translation from English to Lithuanian language,
– (ER) editing texts in Russian language,
– (EE) editing texts in English language.
Requirements to participants of the tender / evaluation criteria:
Essential requirement for the participants of the contest in categories C and D (editors):
– Category (ER) – the Russian language must be native to the candidate (native speaker);
– Category (EE) – the English language must be native to the candidate (native speaker).
General requirements for all categories (TRE, TER, TLE, TEL, ER, EE).
To assess the tender applications, the following criteria will be used (maximum amount of points for each criterion):
| Experience of translation/editing in the fields of public health and human rights: | maximum 30 points |
| Experience of translation/editing in the fields of harm reduction, drug policy, and HIV response | maximum 30 points |
| Education: diploma in linguistics, philology or other related fields; special courses for translators, certifications, etc.: | maximum 30 points |
| Price of translation/editing of a page of text (1800 characters with spaces) | maximum 10 points |
| The maximum possible amount of points | 100 points |
Participants must submit:
1. A cover letter in a free format (no more than in 1 pages), which should include:
ATTENTION! If these documents are not provided in full, such application in not considered for evaluation.
Application deadline – 1 p.m., December 10, 2017, Vilnius local time. Please send your documents to Viktorija Semionova at viktorija@harmreductioneurasia.org
Special conditions:
Upon the completion of the tender procedures, EHRA will sign long-term contracts with the selected number of Consultants on a fixed cost of services per unit basis in EURO (page of text, 1800 characters with spaces). Further work will be carried out based on the needs of EHRA and according to the timeline and other conditions, which will be decided upon in each individual case.
The submission of documents for participation in the tender does not impose on EHRA any additional obligation to conclude a contract.
Amsterdam Youth Force, Eurasian Harm Reduction Association (EHRA) and AFEW International invite applicants from Eastern Europe and Central Asia region (EECA) to submit drafts abstracts for XXII International AIDS Conference 2018 in Amsterdam (AIDS2018) to board panel of experts for review.
We would like to invite Eastern European and Central Asian (EECA) researchers, clinicians, scientists, community activists and young people to submit their abstracts to our EECA AIDS2018 Abstract Support team. Boosting the representation of academics in this region is important as this is the only region in the world where the epidemic is still growing. To increase the chances to present their work at the conference for researchers, clinicians, community activists and young people from EECA who may have less experience in writing scientific abstracts in English, we will be facilitating scientific and English language assistance. We will link you to a researcher or a professional in your field which can provide you with scientific feedback on how to improve the quality of your abstract. To specifically support young researchers and community activists, we also offer a feedback session via Skype to discuss the suggested changes to your work.
If this sounds like something you could benefit from, please read further about the eligibility criteria and review process.
Eligibility Criteria
You can submit your abstract to aids2018@afew.nl for a professional review if you are:
The review process:
First round feedback will be sent out to applicants within 10 days after the submission. The timing for in-person communication shall it be needed, will be coordinated individually with each applicant.
For those who submit in Russian language, you will first receive feedback on the academic quality of your written piece. Following this, a limited number of abstracts will also be translated into English. This is based on the need, so please indicate your capacity for translation in the letter of motivation.
For the abstract submissions written in English, you will receive feedback on the scientific quality of work, and limited number of abstracts will get assistance with English editing. Again, please indicate your English skills and need for editing in the motivation letter.
Please send your abstract in Word format, include a brief letter of motivation, which scientific track you will be submitting to and details about yourself including your age if you would like to apply as a young researcher or community activist.
Below you will find links to materials on how to write conference abstracts, available in English and Russian.
Requirement to abstracts:
Confidentiality:
AFEW International, EHRA and Amsterdam Youth Force form a Steering Committee and the secretariat of the EECA Abstract support project. Only people designated to serve within Steering Committee and the secretariat and the reviewers assigned to each abstract will have access to the abstract submissions as well as the contact details of the applicants. We will not release any information on who has received assistance for their submissions at any point unless we have consent to do so.
Useful resources
An Abstract writing module is developed in collaboration with the International AIDS Society (IAS) – the organizer of the AIDS conferences, and written by editors of the Journal of the International AIDS Society, an open-access platform for essential and innovative HIV/AIDS research. It is available for everybody in English and translated into Russian by AFEW International.
AFEW International has conducted a training on community based participatory research and abstract writing. This training was steamed live and records as well as hand outs and presentations are available in Russian here:
Abstract writing: structure, review criteria, submission tips
On the road to AIDS2018: practical guide
Presentations and handouts (downloadable, please scroll down)
If you want to receive English presentations and handouts, please refer to the email address below.
AIDS2018: Preparing for registration and submitting abstracts. An Article was written by a young researchers Anna Tokar, in Russian is available here, and in English here
You can follow us on http://www.afew.org/aids2018eeca/ and https://www.facebook.com/AFEWInternational/ for all the updates on the available recourses and opportunities.
On 27 of November, Online General Meeting of the Eurasian Harm Reduction Association (EHRA) was closed. EHRA members made their choice for the main issues.
The General Meeting was declared opened on 13 of November via listserv (e-mails) for EHRA members (177 in total at the moment of the General Meeting). During the fortnight, they had possibility to discuss and vote for:
– EHRA Statute;
– EHRA Strategic Framework for 2018-2019;
– Interim Steering Committee and timeline for conducting Steering Committee elections by regions (Regional Meetings);
– Organizational title for registration in Lithuanian bodies – Eurazijos žalos mažinimo asociacija.
No further items were on the agenda.
Quorum needes 50% of members+1, which means that 90 members should participate in the General meeting according the Statute of the Association. 107 participants took part in the online General Meeting of EHRA members. 99 individual and organizational members’ votes are considered eligible for voting in the online General meeting. 8 participants’ votes were not counted as valid, because they didn’t have a right to vote in the EHRA Online General Meeting (not official individual or organizational members of EHRA). Thus, quorum was reached, as 56% of members participated in the General meeting.
As a result, the online General Meeting approved all four announced EHRA strategic issues:
“On behalf of the EHRA Secretary, I would like to thank each member, who took part in the first online General meeting of EHRA members for the active participation and involvement in the development of the Association processes. I’m very glad, that the first meeting was successful and that more then the half of EHRA members participated in it. There was no any interference in the online voting platform or violations of the voting procedures,” – said Eliza Kurcevic, EHRA Program Officer and Secretary of the General meeting.
On 13–27 November, 2017 Eurasian Harm Reduction Association (EHRA) conducts General Meeting of it’s members. During the fortnight, members of EHRA will have online-voting for four main issues:
1. Approval of EHRA Statute
2. Approval of EHRA Strategic Framework for 2018-2019
3. Approval of interim Steering Committee and timeline for conducting Steering Committee elections by regions (Regional Meetings)
4. Approval of the organizational title for registration in Lithuanian bodies.
All members approved by the EHRA Steering Committee may participate in the General Meeting. At the moment, there are more than 170 members. The full list of members is available on the EHRA website – https://old.harmreductioneurasia.org/members/
Details on the voting procedure and participation can be clarified by contacting members@harmreductioneurasia.org
