Originally published on www.healthpolicyplus.com
One policy reform aimed at maintaining the critical role of civil society in the HIV response in concert with domestic resource mobilization efforts is the development of government-led mechanisms to finance civil society through formalized contractual channels. Such partnerships between governments and civil society are widely referred to as “social contracting.” HP+ is providing technical assistance to countries to best prepare for donor transitions and help governments and civil society organizations with understanding and implementing social contracting through financial and policy means.