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Topic
3
Taking the lead in coordination and action: Strategy and partnership |
 Assignments
for Topic 3 |
Review the
Commentary for tips and examples relating to Tools and Assignments
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Assignment
3
First,
review the following tools in the Handbook:
- Tool 1.7
LGA HIV/AIDS Partnership Network (pages 42-43)
- Tool 2.7
Taking stock of local HIV/AIDS responses (pages 60-72)
Local
government authorities can be creative and inclusive in addressing
HIV/AIDS - this means that much of a local government response
will involve partnerships, mainstreaming and functional integration.
These are all ways to make the most use of limited resources.
The purpose
of these tools (1.7 & 2.7) is to determine what is already
being done in the municipality to address HIV/AIDS. Using the
tools, or other available means describe how you would go
about collecting the following information:
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What
NGOs, CBOs, and FBOs are addressing HIV/AIDS in your municipality?
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Where
are they working and what types of services do they provide?
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Is
there any formal or informal relationship between these organizations
and the local government authority? (Refer to Tool 1.7 for
some suggestions on how partnerships may be developed.)
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In
this exercise, have any gaps in service provision been identified?
How do you propose to address these? Will these be incorporated
in the strategy?
In addition
to describing the methodology you would use to conduct a comprehensive
stock taking, begin the exercise by selecting 5 organizations
in your municipality and answering the above questions for at
least the 5 selected organizations.
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Assignment
3.1
First, review
the following tools in the Handbook:
- Tools 3.4-
3.6 Developing a Local Government HIV/AIDS Response Strategy
(pages 78-85)
- Box 3.3
What does Mainstreaming for HIV/AIDS mean? (page 16).
Local government
authorities are the level of government closest to the community,
and their services have a wide reach. Mainstreaming is a way for
local government authorities to tap into their reach, by integrating
HIV/AIDS activities into their existing activities.
- List all
of the departments in the local government authority*. Identify
what groups these departments reach (i.e. Education: children
attending school).
- For each
department identify 1-2 activities that could be integrated
into ongoing programs within the specific departments. Use Tool
3.5 (Strategy Worksheet) to facilitate this process.
- If there
are activities that the local government authority wishes to
act on--use Tool 4.2 (Implementation Plans) to create an action
plan.
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Assignment
3.2
First, review
the following tools in the Handbook:
- Tool 3.6
Promoting Functional Integration (pages 82-84)
Then carry
out the following steps:
- List all
of the services related to HIV/AIDS prevention, care and mitigation*.
(You may want to use the National HIV/AIDS Strategy for this)
- Gather
information about all the services provided by public health
facilities within the local government area. (District hospital,
primary health centers etc.)
- Use the
findings from Assignment 3, list all of the services being provided
outside of the public sector.
To create
an image of the functional integration needs for the municipality,
conduct the following exercise:
- Imagine
that a person is interested in getting an HIV test. Where do
they go? Where do they go if they are positive? Where do they
access care and treatment for opportunistic infections? How
can they find counseling on nutrition and healthy life style?
Where can they access condoms to prevent infecting their partner?
Who can they turn to if they lose their job and their family
has no income? When they become sick with AIDS, where can the
caregiver turn to for advice on how to care for them? How will
their children continue to attend school? Who will help pay
for the burial?
- For each
of the questions above-identify where they might seek the service,
and see whether there is any mechanism for the service providers
to give referrals. Suggest ways to facilitate this process.
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may want to refer to Tools 2. 5 (Understanding the responsibilities
of national, provincial and municipal players), and Tool 2.6
(Conducting an HIV/AIDS Self-Assessment Survey.)) |
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Presentation
on these assignments might include:
- In the
process of taking stock of local responses to HIV/AIDS, were
any gaps discovered?
- What is
the present relationship between the local government authority
and the AIDS Service Organizations identified? Is the local
government authority interested in developing partnerships?
Why or why not?
- Highlight
2-3 mainstreaming activities that were identified in the course
of conducting Assignment 3.1. How does the LGA plan to implement
these?
- In thinking
through the functional integration exercise (Assignment 3.2)
were there apparent gaps? How does the LGA propose to address
those gaps?
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