twinning against AIDS Survey Response - 3 to 5

Section 3 to 5

3. Respondents resource allocation related to HIV/AIDS work:

3.1 Percentage of resources committed to various sectors of HIV/AIDS work:

Respondents whose work was totally HIV/AIDS related

Percentage of work focused on HIV/AIDS for those whose work was only partially HIV/AIDS related

Percentage of work focused on HIV/AIDS for those whose work was only partially HIV/AIDS related

Number of respondents by programme area to which 40% or more the work of an organisation was committed

Note: Looking at the overall scores the main areas of focus for the respondents are Education followed by Advocacy, Counselling and Research. Education is a key priority for all the respondents. Advocacy is more important for respondents from Africa and Asia and Pacific and there is an interestingly low score for advocacy in Latin America. It is also interesting to note the very low figures for Care 3 (6%) and Treatment 1 (2%) amongst African respondents.

3.2 Regions where respondents mainly focussed their work:

Geographic region in which respondents said they mainly worked

3.3 Staff and budgets committed to HIV/AIDS work:

Organisational staff committed to HIV/AIDS work

Annual organisationl budget dedicated to HIV/AIDS ($US)

4. Examples of lessons or achievements respondents felt would be useful to share with others and challenges that others may be able to help respondents overcome:

Lessons to share

Strategies for community counselling

Engaging youth in the fight against HIV/AIDS

Partnering with the media to do AIDS advocacy

Advocacy against stigma and discrimination

Experience as a national coalition speaking on behalf of community-based ASOs

Providing post-diagnosis counselling

Experience working in rural areas

Experience in reviewing legislation and helping to draft new legislation

Experience in helping to source funding

Developing programmes that combine HIV/AIDS and TB initiatives

Creating programmes that our inclusive of women

Working with nomadic peoples

Working with puppets to build AIDS awareness

Prevention of mother to child transmission programmes

Training NGOs in self-management

Research and short courses in different disciplines and their relationships to HIV/AIDS

Providing aboriginal appropriate resources

Involving PWAs

Building networks and coalitions

Developing comprehensive multi-sector HIV-control measures

Counselling using holy books

Establishing and sustaining volunteers at the community level

Working with TV and video

Doing community based research

Working with governments and other groups in cross border programmes

Providing harm reduction programmes to IV drug users

Working with organised sex trade workers

Previous experience with twinning

Development of activities related to human rights and HIV/AIDS

Testimonies of people living with HIV/AIDS

Strengthening dialogue between parents and children

Skills in monitoring, motivating and utilising media

Successful experiences with workplace programmes in Ghana.

Behavioural research on male psychology and high-risk behaviour in the face of HIV/AIDS.

Experience doing advocacy for access to medication for HIV/AIDS patients

Working with the private sector to encourage support for children infected and affected by AIDS

Grassroots mobilisation

Prevention initiatives especially in HIV/Agriculture etc.

Challenges to overcome

Responding to fundamentalist resistance to AIDS education and awareness

Finding enough resources

Finding better ways to encourage people to come in for testing

Starting a wellness programme

Developing literacy programmes to support awareness work

Maintaining staff morale

Getting access to drugs for HIV patients

Providing appropriate training to volunteers

Finding more effective and efficient ways to disseminate information

Updating old equipment and infrastructure

Finding ways to educate truck drivers

Building multi-national consensus

Getting a better understanding of issues at the grassroots level

Building AIDS awareness in a low incidence country

Increasing the involvement of women parliamentarians

Finding ways to systematically put lessons together so they are not lost

Developing the skills and commitment of staff

Developing planning and management skills

Finding ways to overcome resistance from church and conservative groups

Finding ways to work across cultural barriers to discuss sex related issues

Finding ways to get more journalists interested in writing more on HIV/AIDS

Adding appropriate ICTs to community information networks

Improving access to documents and information

Learning to better lobby government for policy change and resources

Working more effectively with volunteers

Improving access to Internet and computer technologies

Involving youth more effectively

Do not have enough access to the experiences of other organisations

Finding ways to organise or participate in regional conferences to share experience

Increasing our organisational profile

Improving communication and cross-collaboration

Increasing efficiency in research methods/partnerships

Finding ways of reporting on HIV/AIDS that lead to behavioural change

Better sharing of data and findings so that one does not have to 'reinvent the wheel'

Educating people in the military

Finding the time (or volunteers) to keep materials and website updated

Becoming more cost effective

In-house and partner capacities related to technical support

5. Number of respondents whose staff had time for mutual learning with other organisations, or could combine such learning with planned travel, plus selected comments and suggestions for other means of twinning:

Selected comments:

Staff already attend network meetings

This is done already using motivational workshops

We have been trying to identify best practise for our staff to see and learn from

We organise monthly meetings between our staff and other NGOs

We participate in solid networks

Currently such collaboration is limited due to financial and logistical difficulties

This would be a new experience but we are ready to try it

We have not done much of this due to limited information

We think study tours would be helpful

We would be open ICTs to assist as external exchanges are difficult

This needs to be taken more seriously

Time is limited but we do recognise the importance of such learning

Yes but through e-mail only

Using Internet or telephone would be better as we have no travel funds

Selected Comments:

We can travel within Pakistan but have no funds for international travel

Our staff are encouraged to do this

Our partners do not fund this kind of travel

We participate in exchange programmes with US universities

Our HIV coordinator would benefit from such exposure

We cannot do this with existing resources

We have difficulty obtaining visas

We do this a lot but only inside our own country India

Travel outside China is difficult

This would not be a justifiable use of our resources at present

We are only allowed to travel for education or learning

We do this locally