Insight to Implementation (i2i) | South to South Learning Network

Our Focus Areas

Our consultations have identified four essential areas of HIV programming and prevention. Each of these focus areas explores important questions to guide effective strategies and create meaningful change.

Using Data to Improve HIV Programme

Good decisions come from good data. We focus on how to use quality information to monitor programmes, make timely adjustments, and improve outcomes for different communities.

Check out some of our latest tools and blogs below:

Video: i2i Sub-national Estimates in Priority Populations tool (SHIPP) Dashboard

Blog: What is Evidence Utilisation?

SHIPP Dashboards for selected countries‍

Republic of Congo

Zambia

Uganda

Reaching Key Populations

Tailored support for those most at risk is essential to effective HIV prevention. This includes ensuring culturally competent care, addressing stigma and discrimination, and involving key populations in every step of programme design and implementation.

Explore our range of evidence briefs

Evidence Summary:: How can we reach and provide HIV prevention programming for young women who sell sex?

Engaging Men in HIV Efforts

Male participation in HIV programmes strengthens community health. We explore ways to get men more involved, from shaping policies to designing services that meet their needs.

Peruse our range of evidence products:

Male Engagement Programming Checklist

Male sexual partners (MSP) of adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in Tanzania - Who are they and how can they be reached?
A synesis of existing evidence

Summary Brief: Engaging men and boys for HIV prevention and sexual and reproductive health - A systematic review of reviews

Learning Video: Interventions to engage men and boys as clients, partners, and agents of change to improve SRHR

Supporting ARV Based Prevention

Antiretroviral-based (ARV) prevention methods, like PrEP and PEP, are game-changers in HIV prevention. We work on increasing access, supporting adherence, and raising awareness about these life-saving technologies.

Check out some of our key resources here:

PEP Working Group Meeting Interactive Storybook

Role of stigma in PrEP uptake and continuation among adolescent girls and young women

The Process

How do we bridge the gap between evidence and action in
HIV prevention?

Collaborate with country champions

We support country champions to identify and prioritise gaps in evidence in line with your country’s strategy.

Synthesise existing evidence into user friendly knowledge products

We help develop knowledge products like How-to Guides, Evidence briefs, Infographics, Fact Sheets, Dashboards, Interactive Evidence Toolkits

Facilitate activities to use knowledge products

We help facilitiate activities like

Evidence-informed policy/programme dialogues
Data interpretation workshops
Capacity building, training and/or mentorship
Developing evidence application tools and frameworks
Virtual or in-person evidence dissemination or exchange events

Add support countries to apply evidence to strengthen country prevention policies and programmes

We support application of evidence through

Strengthen policies, guidelines, strategies
Strengthen funding requests
Guide design and implementation
Integrate into day-to-day operations
Identify gaps in current knowledge, which then trigger new research studies

Objectives of i2i

As i2i we will

Collaborate with you to identify and prioritise your prevention evidence gaps and understand the barriers and enablers of applying evidence to strengthen programmes and policies.

Consolidate and synthesise existing regional HIV prevention evidence into clear, practical, and user-friendly knowledge products and disseminate it to country stakeholders.

Support you as Country champions to ensure that the evidence from our knowledge products is used to strengthen prevention policies and programmes.

December

2023

Investment granted

January

2024

Inception Meeting

January

2024

Rebranded the "Sycona" initiative as “Insight 2 Implementation” (i2i)

February

2024

Integrating with SSLN

April

2024

Evidence priority topics identified

June

2024

PEP Working Group Meeting

July

2024

Virtual Round Table Event on YWSS

October

2024

KP workshop in Ghana

October

2024

PEP webinar “the forgotten prevention”

November

2024

Male Engagement Workshop in Uganda

November

2024

SHiPP Dashboard Capacity Building Workshop in Zimbabwe

December

2024

KP Coverage Workshop in Nigeria

Country Strategy

This is what the evidence utilisation journey looks like with i2i.

Review & identify

We reviewed PSATs, country evidence and action plans and were able to identify four key topics where evidence gaps were identified.

Align with country needs

We will work with country champions to develop an evidence agenda that that outlines practical, actionable steps in line with your country strategy

Consolidate and synthesise

We will consolidate and synthesise the evidence into user-friendly formats like videos, guides, presentations, and infographics, making it easy to understand and apply

Support evidence utilisation

We offer a range of services to support evidence use:

Facilitating evidence-informed policy/programme dialogues
Data interpretation workshops
Capacity building, training and/or mentorship
Developing evidence application tools and frameworks
Virtual or in person evidence dissemination or exchange events

What are the next steps?

Country Team Evidence Agenda Prioritisation

Goal:

To identify and prioritise the top 4 evidence questions that will guide your country’s HIV prevention programmes and policies.

Process:

Prioritise Top 4 Questions: Collaboratively select the 4 most critical evidence questions impacting the Country’s HIV prevention efforts

Define the Country’s Ultimate Goal for the Evidence: Clearly articulate the desired impact or outcome of addressing each question and utilising the evidence.

State How the Evidence will Help Achieve Country Goals: Clearly express how the country envisions what the evidence could look like and how they plan to use the evidence to reach their desired outcome.

Focal Point for Each Evidence Question: Provide a name and contact information of the focal point for each question who can liaise with the team.

Outcome:

Four prioritised questions with clear utilisation goals, and a roadmap of activities to generate and apply evidence for impactful decision-making.

Transforming your evidence to action

i2i was established as an offering to support countries to effectively use evidence to strengthen prevention policies and programmes

What is Evidence Utilisation?

EvidenceUtilisation is

Applied Health Research

Our Focus Areas

Using Data to Improve HIV Programme

Check out some of our latest tools and blogs below:

SHIPP Dashboards for selected countries‍

Reaching Key Populations

Explore our range of evidence briefs

Engaging Men in HIV Efforts

Peruse our range of evidence products:

Supporting ARV Based Prevention

Check out some of our key resources here:

Contact us for support from i2i

The Process

Collaborate with country champions

Synthesise existing evidence into user friendly knowledge products

Facilitate activities to use knowledge products

Add support countries to apply evidence to strengthen country prevention policies and programmes

Objectives of i2i

December

January

January

February

April

June

July

October

October

November

November

December

Country Strategy

Review & identify

Align with country needs

Consolidate and synthesise

Support evidence utilisation

What are the next steps?

Latest Knowledge Products

i2i Sub national Estimates in Priority Populations tool (SHIPP) Dashboard

The Male Engagement Programming checklist

Interventions to engage men and boys as clients, partners, and agents of change to improve SRHR

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