Presentation given at the Sixth RENEWAL Regional Workshop: A decade of work on HIV, food and nutrition security. By Scott Drimie

1. Social Protection to reduce HIV Risks and Mitigate Impacts AIDS, Community Resilience, and Social protection Key findings from collaboration with JLICA

2. Regional Food Security: Underlying Situation Vulnerability increased as a result of complex, inter-related issues, compounding the burden on kinship support structures Series of episodic shocks Floods Drought 2001|2002 harvest failure 2005/2006 harvest failure 2008 Food Price Crisis Maize growing area Area of extended drought

4. Historical coping strategies are in danger of collapsing

7. Dedicated to improving the wellbeing of children, families and communities affected by HIV and AIDS

8. Over 2 years mobilisedbest available evidence to identify priority recommendations for policy and practice

11. Directly provide or loan assets

13. Political

14. Social

15. Public works

16. Insurance (e.g. health, asset)

17. Unconditional cash transfers

18. Livelihoods support

20. Child and adult education/skills

21. Early childhood development(Source: Adato and Bassett 2008)

22. Selected Findings Critical to rapidly scale-up for families affected by AIDS Cash transfers are easier to scale up quickly, and require less recipient capacity, than other interventions Cash transfers implemented in conjunction with non-mandatory complementary services appropriately tailored Strengthen service supply and quality, and pilot conditionality Targeting of families and children should focus on poverty, with an HIV lens, not AIDS-affected or orphans exclusively