Summary: This manual is designed to build the advocacy capacity of agencies that work with KPs to build an enabling environment for responding to HIV/AIDS in India. The program approach is participatory, designed to enable participants to arrive at common understanding of key concepts. It also helps to develop skills through exercises that promote dialogue using practical examples. The programme focuses on enabling participants to understand and use data to make the case for policy changes.

Region: Asia

Type: Manuals
Sector: AIDS/HIV
Theoretical Approach: Policy Engagement

Summary: This tool can be used with community organizations to identify capacity-building needs, plan any technical support needed by the organization, and monitor and evaluate the impact of capacity-building support. It is designed to facilitate group discussions between members of community organizations and external facilitators providing capacity-building support. Alternatively, the tool may be self-administered by the implementing community organization. The profile section has questions that can be asked to establish a basic description of the organization. There are seven further sections relating tospecific areas of capacity. journey home.

Region: International

Type: Toolkits
Sector: AIDS/HIV
Theoretical Approach: Policy impact assessments

Summary: The Global Fund was created to finance a dramatic turn-around in the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. These diseases kill over 6 million people each year, and the numbers are growing. Funding is uaually provided to one organisaiton such as an AIDS Network or Government Department to manage. These bodies then issue calls on various areas of intervention in countries were they provide thse funding, usually with the agreement of the Government.

Region: Africa

Type: Funding Opportunities
Sector: AIDS/HIV
Theoretical Approach: - N/A -

Summary: A one-day project workshop in March 2004 for the Bridging the Gap between Research and Policy in Combating HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries project. The objectives of the workshop were to share experiences about research-policy interactions in the HIV/AIDS field; discuss the Context: Evidence: Links framework along with the preliminary findings of the project; discuss other HIV/AIDS-related work relevant to the project; and to develop a strategy for further work in this area.

Region: International

Type: Workshop Reports
Sector: AIDS/HIV
Theoretical Approach: Learning

Summary: Issues: Can civil societies develop adaptive skills and strategies, upon which contemporary knowledge can be built in, to contain the pandemic? Do CSOs have the autonomy, capacity, complexity, and cohesion that, in combination, determine the relative strength of a CSO? This leads to divergent definitions and representations of civil society: the perception of civil society (defined by what it is not more than what it is) as producer of the spontaneous interests, demands and institutional resources of change conflicts with the view of weak civil societies in need of cultivation by states. Description of problem: The principal problem in the fight against the HIV/Aids pandemic in Africa stem from the over dependence of civil society on external funding, the absence of effective networks, lack of reflective capacity and the dismal state-civil society interface. The virtual absence of civic education training as a key component of development underlies the main undercurrent for the extreme weaknesses of social movement. Recommendations: It is the fundamental premise of this paper that civic education - learning about and appreciating one's rights, duties, obligations and responsibilities as a citizen and the immediate rules, laws and governance structures within which one exercises citizenship is the first and fundamental step in the management of the HIV/Aids pandemic by civil society. States must then accept, as a universal right, that the rights and obligations of citizenship are not gifts from the state, must express humility, optimism, ethics and recognition of shared responsibility, must understand that citizen’s collective action is a basic human right and a responsibility to participate actively in the life of and service to the community. Indeed, citizen’s action, in concert with human and social capital formation and accumulation, is the highest form of citizenship necessary to mobilise society to fight the pandemic effectively.

Region: Africa

Type: Reports
Sector: AIDS/HIV
Theoretical Approach: - N/A -

Summary: This Conference Paper by John Serieux was presented at the “Global Conference on Gearing Macroeconomic Policies to Reverse the HIV/AIDS Epidemic”, jointly organized by UNDP’s HIV/AIDS Group and IPC and held in Brasilia, November 2006. It is part of an IPC-supported Research Programme on “Macroeconomic Policies to Combat HIV/AIDS”. The paper argues that any adverse macroeconomic effects of a large scaling up of HIV/AIDS financing can be prevented by proper exchange-rate management, including frontloading aid, building up a modest stock of foreign exchange reserves and refraining from over-reacting to initial moderate increases in inflation and the value of the exchange rate.

Region: International

Type: Papers
Sector: AIDS/HIV
Theoretical Approach: Policy impact assessments

Summary: This Conference Paper by Matias Vernengo was presented at the “Global Conference on Gearing Macroeconomic Policies to Reverse the HIV/AIDS Epidemic”, jointly organized by UNDP’s HIV/AIDS Group and IPC and held in Brasilia, November 2006. It is part of an IPC-supported Research Programme on “Macroeconomic Policies to Combat HIV/AIDS”. The paper maintains that the monetary policies best suited to manage the macroeconomic effects of an MDG-related scaling up of HIV/AIDS financing are those that support the needed expansion of public spending - namely, monetary policies that maintain low rates of interest, increase overall liquidity in the economy and try to achieve a relatively depreciated currency.

Region: International

Type: Papers
Sector: AIDS/HIV
Theoretical Approach: Policy impact assessments

Summary: This Conference Paper by Degol Hailu was presented at the “Global Conference on Gearing Macroeconomic Policies to Reverse the HIV/AIDS Epidemic”, jointly organized by UNDP’s HIV/AIDS Group and IPC and held in Brasilia, November 2006. It is part of an IPC-supported Research Programme on “Macroeconomic Policies to Combat HIV/AIDS”. The paper argues that Kenya represents an unusual case of a country in which HIV/AIDS financing has been on the rise while total ODA and public spending on health have been falling. Despite the minimal danger of macroeconomic instability, the Government has resorted to restrictive macroeconomic policies. It has sought to maintain very low inflation rates, cut public-sector wages and halved its fiscal deficit. As result, the ODA allocated for combating HIV/AIDS has been neither fully spent nor absorbed.

Region: International

Type: Case Studies
Sector: AIDS/HIV
Theoretical Approach: Political context analysis

Summary: Social movements have brought energy, vitality and self-defined change to local, national and international responses to HIV and AIDS. By bringing people together and advocating effectively, social movements have amplified voices of people most affected by HIV and AIDS and created opportunities for their voices to influence governments and other decision makers. How can communication more effectively support social movements to debate, act and bring about change in favour of those most affected by HIV and AIDS?This document outlines some of the main findings of a pilot case study in South Africa, conducted in 2006 as the first phase of the Panos HIV social movements project.

Region: Africa

Type: Case Studies
Sector: AIDS/HIV
Theoretical Approach: Policy Engagement

Summary: This toolkit provides a selection of 100 Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) tools which you can use for community mobilisation and HIV/AIDS. PLA tools are interactive activities which enable communities and organisations to learn together about HIV/AIDS in their community, develop a plan, act on it and evaluate and reflect on how it went.

Region: International

Type: Toolkits
Sector: AIDS/HIV
Theoretical Approach: Learning

Summary: Civil society in Africa plays a pivotal role in the broader response to AIDS. For years and in many countries on the continent, governments’ inability to tackle HIV—whether through lack of resources or commitment—has prompted NGOs to step in and take up the provision of HIV and AIDS services. This edition of Voices From Africa is replete with such examples. They range from the experiences of small local groups to the programmes and projects of international networks, made up of Africans from all regions who work on a daily basis with those infected or affected by HIV. They paint with their testimonies a poignant picture of the harsh battles they wage in everyday life—whether fighting ignorance and stigma, searching for scarce resources, or seeking support and commitment beyond their own. Without these and thousands of similar groups, the battle against AIDS would surely be a losing one.

Region: Africa

Type: Case Studies
Sector: AIDS/HIV
Theoretical Approach: - N/A -