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Summary: The Payson center supports the UNAIDS secretariat by providing technical assistance and capacity building within three of UNAIDS M&E department’s (MOE) projects: (1) the normative guidance project by assisting the Monitoring and Evaluation Reference Group (MERG) technical working groups fulfill their roles and deliver their products (2) the reporting project focusing on United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS) guidelines and reporting (3) the M&E capacity building project for global/regional support to the implementation of the third one (one national M&E system in each country) .