Community Led Monitoring Project Associate

UNAIDS NPL organization mission TBD

Nepal has a concentrated HIV epidemic, with an estimated 30,000 people living with HIV (PLHIV) and an adult prevalence rate of 0.11%. Key populations, including female sex workers (FSW), transgender individuals, men who have sex with men (MSM), people who inject drugs (PWID), prisoners, and migrants, are at the center of the national HIV response. In addition to HIV, tuberculosis (TB) remains a significant public health challenge. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Nepal has an estimated 70,000 TB cases (95% UI: 43,000–117,000), with 18,000 deaths (95% UI: 9,000–29,000) occurring among HIV-negative individuals (Global TB Report, 2023).

Recognizing the need for a strategic and targeted response, Nepal’s National HIV and TB Strategic Plans were developed through extensive stakeholder consultations. These plans outline priority interventions aimed at ending TB and AIDS as public health threats by 2030.

A critical component of Nepal’s HIV and TB response is community-led approaches, including Community-Led Monitoring (CLM), which enhances service quality, accountability, and access. CLM is led by communities, who systematically collect and analyze qualitative and quantitative data on HIV, TB and related service delivery. By identifying gaps in access, stigma, and discrimination, CLM ensures that services align with national policies and international best practices.

Since 2022, UNAIDS, has been implementing CLM initiatives in 14 districts of Nepal. These efforts have reinforced community ownership, engagement, and data-driven advocacy, strengthened coordination between government, civil society, and development partners to advance HIV-related goals. Building on this progress, UNAIDS and UNDP have committed to jointly supporting CLM implementation under the Global Fund Grant Cycle 7 (February 2025–July 2027). This collaboration will expand community-led oversight into HIV and TB services, ensuring sustained improvements in service delivery, policy advocacy, and resource mobilization. The following are the focus areas of the CLM project:

● This project will specifically target the HIV service beneficiaries to increase the quality of treatment and related outcomes in selected districts;
● To ascertain that all known HIV positives people are linked to HIV treatment and related services;
● Ascertain whether follow-up is being undertaken at the community level (treatment adherence, lost to follow-up reengaged);
● Assessment of barriers, design of interventions to bridge gaps;
● Skills training in communications for effective advocacy, resource mobilization, bookkeeping and related financial skills, M&E, reporting/documentation for focal points in selected districts (This will be linked with PEPFAR ongoing project on financial sustainability);
● Evidence-informed CLM advocacy is used for shared decision-making to improve services and increase service uptake.

Under the direct supervision of UNAIDS Country Director, and in close coordination with CLM Team, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:

• Support the CLM Team for on-going project needs and take action requiring immediate attention;
• Support to review and revise the CLM tools for field level data collection;
• Provide support in organizing workshops and training as required, and prepare brief report and share with CLM Team;
• Support in reviewing monthly narrative reports received from implementing partners;
• Support the compilation and analysis of CLM data and review and prioritization of key findings from the collected information to be utilized for advocacy purposes;
• Conduct field visits with the CLM team (as needed) to monitor the implementation of CLM activities in line with the approved workplan, and prepare detailed field observation notes accordingly;
• Assist in preparing and timely submissiting the periodic technical reports on CLM Initiative to internal and external partners.
• Any other work assigned by the Country Director and the CLM Program Officer.