The Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria/Transatlantic Partners Against AIDS (GBC/TPAA), in partnership with Scenario Development, are convening an innovative multi-stakeholder Scenario Building Workshop to analyze and understand the potential role and opportunities for public-private partnerships (PPP) in the fight against HIV/AIDS and TB in Russia, China and India. This will be the first workshop of its kind, which convenes the private sector, government and NGOs from Russia, China and India.

Scenarios provide a way to apply cross-sectoral knowledge to assess the possible future of AIDS and TB. Scenario building is a dialogue-based methodology which entails identifying both predictable and uncertain driving forces behind a problem in order to describe plausible futures. Scenarios can be used to look at long-term impacts and consequences of actions, explore important areas of public-private partnership and to develop concrete recommendations aimed at bringing about PPPs in countries with emerging economies.

• Convenes experts from various sectors: NGO, government, private sector, policy makers;
• Two-day facilitated event with small-group working sessions and plenary exercises aimed at sharing knowledge, identifying key issues, analyzing current realities and identifying forces shaping the future of the HIV/AIDS and TB epidemics in Russia, China and India;
• Helps participants to formulate a set of draft scenarios, challenge current assumptions and think beyond "official" or preferred futures;
• Creates a critical mass of individuals sharing a common understanding and language around the future of HIV/AIDS and TB in Russia, China and India and the possibilities for a PPP response.
• Enables an understanding of the risks and opportunities involved in an effective response to these epidemics.

PRELIMINARY WORKSHOP AGENDA

The main topics for discussion during the workshop include:

• Key challenges and opportunities for PPPs to address HIV.AIDS and TB epidemics in Russia, India and China;
• Areas for various sectors to come together for concrete PPPs;
• New ideas for PPPs in Russia, China and India.

• Raise awareness of the wider context and policy issues shaping HIV/AIDS and TB in the region;
• Contribute to an identification of the commonalities and differences between the epidemics of Russia, China and India;
• Engage in cross-disciplinary dialogue and share insights with participants from other constituencies and countries, and challenge assumptions and beliefs;
• Formulate scenarios and use them to develop recommendations for joint measures by governmental structures, business and NGOs for building PPPs in response to HIV/AIDS and TB epidemics.

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

PUBLICATIONS & RESOURCES

• About the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria (.pdf)

• About Public-Private Partnerships (.pdf)
• Case Studies: Public-Private Partnerships (.pdf)
• Legislative & Institutional Framework for PPPs in Russia (.pdf)
• Legislative & Institutional Framework for PPPs in India (.pdf)
  
  

• HIV/AIDS Policy Framework and Implementation in Russia (.pdf)
• HIV/AIDS Policy Framework and Implementation in China (.pdf)
• HIV/AIDS Policy Framework and Implementation in India (.pdf)
• Expert Review of HIV and TB in Russia, China & India (.pdf)
  
  

• TB Policy Framework and Implementation in Russia (.pdf)
• TB Policy Framework and Implementation in China (.pdf)
• TB Policy Framework and Implementation in India(.pdf)