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Important Features of BHRIMS Structure

BCIC and M&E Training

BCIC Training
The purpose of the training to provide implementing partners with:
1. An orientation towards the national objectives and related programme priorities
2. An applied understanding of the key principles in designing effective programmes fro prevention, care and support
3. The skills necessary to ascertain and target the key barriers and facilitators to behaviour change, and
4. Increased capacity to develop monitoring and evaluation plans for their interventions and communication initiatives

M&E Training
Training capacity in M&E techniques in Botswana has been limited over the years. NACA and the entire HIV and AIDS fraternity have immensely depended on donor sources for monitoring and evaluation skills and professional development activities. Therefore a partnership had been entered between NACA and Institute for Development Management (IDM) to establish an M&E course that trains stakeholders in the national response.

The overall goal of the training is to build and enhance skills for conducting and carrying out monitoring and evaluation of the national response to HIV and AIDS

However, specific objectives include the following:
1. To guarantee a standard level of knowledge among participants of the basic concepts of current M&E practices at both the national and global levels
2. To equip the participants with first-hand skills of designing M&E work plans, identification and calculation of indicators for specific technical area within the broader context of building country-level M&E capacity to improve reporting and dissemination skills according to the needs of various target audiences

Infrastructure and Systems-BHRIMS

BHRIMS
It has already been mentioned elsewhere that the National Response has been promulgated on key structures that form the basis for its machinery. The Botswana HIV and AIDS Response Information System (BHRIMS) has been set up to facilitate the flow of information; provide linkages between stakeholders; as well as to institute a national database across the national response.

The Botswana HIV and AIDS Response Information Management System (BHRIMS) was developed due to the recognized need to gain better understanding of the HIV and AIDS interventions in the country, generate adequate information on the response, and improve the utilization of generated information for program planning, policy formulation and appropriate allocation of available resources.

Objectives of BHRIMS

To establish a monitoring and evaluation infrastructure
To support the storage and analysis of all available HIV and AIDS data at different levels in the country
To improve the accessibility of HIV and AIDS information and data
To increase the utilization of available reports and data for action
To maintain institutional memory of the HIV and AIDS national response.
To support data collection, analysis, reporting, storage and sharing of HIV AND AIDS information among stakeholders
To promote evidence-based planning of HIV AND AIDS interventions
To maintain institutional memory of the National HIV AND AIDS response