Reports and other documents

Landscaping of HIV Methodologies and Tools
Genesis was awarded a contract to undertake a number of learning activities that will improve countries’ abilities to accurately cost their HIV programmes, using national data systems, and interpret existing cost data, thereby enabling more effective planning, budgeting and ongoing decision-making. This is the second report.
Users who wish to comment on the inclusion or exclusion of tools in this guide can contact Genesis at Elise Smith.

Reference guide for considering study types, methods and tools for HIV economic questions
The purpose of this annex is to provide the reader with an overview of all the research questions, study types, approach summaries, methodologies and tools for each stage of the planning cycle in tabular format.
This facilitates a direct comparison between each of these elements and an overview of the various methodological and tool options for each stage. The annex should be read inconjunction with Guidance for selecting methods and tools for HIV economic studies, which provides more detailed material.Read more about this project: Improving the accurate costing of HIV programmes in Africa

Benefits of central bank digital currencies for African countries
Genesis has been doing some fascinating work in the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) space and the blog sets out our argument for why central banks in developing countries should explore CBDC. Partner Bavani Naidoo explores the benefits here.

UNAIDS Global Fund seeks HIV consultants for 2023-25 funding cycle
The UNAIDS Technical Support Mechanism is expanding the pool of consultants available to support Global Fund new funding requests in the 2023-2025 Funding Cycle.
If you are a consultant with some experience of working in HIV and HIV-related programmes, and you’re keen to expand your knowledge and skills to work on Global Fund funding requests, this free-of-charge opportunity may be for you. You will need to attend a five-day workshop online, participate in follow-on Q&A webinars, and be willing to take part in consultant teams supporting GF funding requests during 2023 and beyond. Download the EOI below.

Our Climate Finance and Economics practice
We work with governments, donors and private businesses to increase the flows of climate finance from higher to lower income countries, in fostering the role of the private sector in climate finance and in better preparedness of societies to address the climate change emergency proactively and adequately.

Our C0DE team co-creates value with our partners in Africa
The Centre of Digital Excellence (C0DE) team at Genesis co-creates value with our partners in Africa by harnessing opportunities in the digital economy. Our work is focused on three areas: digital work opportunities and their enablers, technology governance and ethics, and data-driven decision making. We collaborate with the other teams across Genesis to provide multi-disciplinary expertise on our projects.

Impact Of Foreign Banks During Banking Sector Liberalisation
Managing partner of our Financial Services Strategy practice, Richard Ketley, was in Addis to present at the East African Financial Summit in May 2022. Richard argues that there are the strongest indications yet that the banking sector will soon be opened to foreign participation. Download the presentation of his thoughts on how this may play out.

Webinar on best practices in mentoring for AGYW HIV prevention
Genesis Analytics hosted a webinar on best practices in mentoring for AGYW HIV prevention programming as part of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation project Improving the mentorship of AGYW in HIV prevention programmes. Click here to access the Q&A session.

Understanding Mentorship for Adolescent Girls & Young Women
Genesis was contracted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and will be working with The Population Council to synthesise and contextualise evidence to guide countries in managing and implementing comprehensive AGYW HIV prevention responses for AGYW.
More about the project: Looking for ways to improve AGYW programming in East and Southern Africa