How we work

COMPASS is a collaborative advocacy coalition that brings together country coalitions, global partners, technical experts, and support structures to strengthen community-led action on HIV, TB, SRHR, and health security. Through coordinated advocacy, technical support, learning, and strategic partnerships, COMPASS empowers communities to influence policies, mobilize resources, and drive sustainable change.

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Country Coalitions

Coalitions made up of expert national CSOs actively working on HIV, TB, SRHR and health security from various sectors, including key populations, people living with HIV, AGYW, youth, women’s rights groups and networks. Coalition members collectively make decisions on advocacy campaigns, strategies, approaches and leadership of project implementation.

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Global Partners

Civil society organizations that are not based in Malawi, Tanzania or Zimbabwe. They provide technical support to COMPASS country campaigns, respond to country priorities and may also undertake advocacy to influence policy and funding decisions at the global level.

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Program Support Team

A technical support hub made up of experienced African advocates. The team advises on advocacy strategy and tactics, provides technical assistance, facilitates partner collaboration, reviews action plans, and identifies strategic advocacy opportunities across the coalition.

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Country Coordinators

Responsible for leading country-level implementation of COMPASS activities. They work closely with coalition leadership to oversee implementation, monitoring and evaluation, support resource mobilization and capacity building, and serve as a link between all COMPASS structures.

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MERL Hub

MERL hub leads Monitoring, Evaluation, Results and Learning across COMPASS. The MERL Hub supports data collection, analysis, reporting, case study development and cross-coalition learning while helping partners document and assess advocacy outcomes.

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Secretariat

Pangaea Zimbabwe serves as the current Secretariat. It manages fiduciary responsibilities, strengthens partner capacity, coordinates communication, supports governance and collaboration, and provides strategic program and MERL support across the coalition.

COMPASS Focus Areas

  1. Improved development, adoption, implementation and evaluation of health laws, policies and approaches supportive of comprehensive, person-centered HIV responses that address barriers to equitable access and meet the needs of those at high risk of HIV infection and those living with HIV, including key populations, adolescents and young people, and other vulnerable populations.
  2. Increased allocation and efficient utilization of human, financial and technical resources from national governments, Official Development Assistance (ODA), and the private sector to programs and partners on the front lines of the HIV response.
  3. Improved country, regional and global pandemic responses to protect global HIV/AIDS gains and improve global health equity, security, governance and multi-sector collaboration.
  4. A sustained and evolved North-South coalition to set the standard for transnational coalition-based, Africa-led activism