CHALLENGES

Monitoring and evaluation remain a challenge because most of the program implementers are stationed within their own departments and have their own primary responsibilities. There is a need to integrate these twin functions into departmental responsibilities so that they will not be regarded as additional responsibility or extra burden.

There is a need to assist volunteer program partners such as the People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHAS) organization and Butterfly Brigade in strengthening their own organization. Their work in the Aklan HIV/AIDS Program has been providing members’ opportunity to take active roles, but their organizational needs have to be addressed so that the entire organization will grow.

Innovation is a constant challenge to program implementers. The drive to discover new and better ways of responding to threat of HIV/AIDS must be cultivated. Routine activities, though actively implemented, tend to lose impact in the long run.