(French) NACO: Improving HIV-AIDS Control and Prevention in India Through Knowledge Sharing
Channel: Knowledge Sharing for Results
Date: 23/05/2017

India’s National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) was often struggling with how to best harness good practice in HIV-AIDS control and prevention that are done in one place and bring them to fruition across the country. To address this challenge, NACO asked the World Bank’s Organizational Knowledge Sharing team for support in strengthening its institutional capacity to more effectively and systematically identify, capture and share experiential knowledge and insights on development solutions for the most pertinent challenges in HIV/AIDS response, domestically and with international peers. Thanks to this support, NACO was equipped with the tools, systems and processes to become an effective platform for systematic knowledge sharing on HIV/AIDS. NACO piloted a cross-state knowledge exchange which allowed local intervention teams in Rajasthan to learn from peer communities in Delhi on innovative practices to strengthen the operational effectiveness of the program and overcome important challenges such as condom distribution or identification of new high risk groups.