The 2022 - 2026 Unified Budget, Results and Accountability Framework (UBRAF) provides a clear roadmap for the Joint Programme’s action and results. It defines its unique role and critical contribution to the implementation of the Global AIDS Strategy 2021-2026 and translation of the 2021 Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS into progress towards ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 as well as to the Sustainable Development Goals.
Truly uniting UNAIDS 11 Cosponsors and the Secretariat’s efforts for delivering ‘more than the sum of their parts’, the UBRAF is the Joint Programme’s primary tool for prioritization, strategic and joint planning, implementation, resource mobilization and mutual accountability.
It outlines the Joint Programme’s results framework, how capacities are leveraged and optimized, collaboration with other stakeholders, its theory of change, resources allocation methodology, division of labour and accountability, monitoring, evaluation and reporting systems. It also describes the nature of the Joint Programme’s strategic support to regions and countries, with an emphasis on its comparative advantages and focus on reducing inequalities that drive the AIDS epidemic and get the response on-track to ending AIDS by 2030 through inclusive, impactful and sustainable national HIV responses that leave no one behind.
Fully aligned with the Global AIDS Strategy, the UBRAF was jointly developed with guidance from an External UBRAF Working Group and informed by an Independent Evaluation of the UN system response to AIDS in 2016-2019 and other reviews and approved by UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board (PCB) in 2021.
The Joint Programme operationalizes its support to countries and communities through the 2022-2026 UBRAF and its associated biennial/annual Workplans and Budgets which define its clear priorities and transformative shifts for results and broader efforts to enhance its overall effectiveness, efficiency and accountability.
The UBRAF logo symbolizes the Joint Programme’s unity with an ambitious and multisectoral outreach and the work of the 11 Cosponsors and the Secretariat’s leadership, coordination and convening role for an effective global AIDS response.
