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AIDS Competence in Thailand, Papua New Guinea, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Cambodia
Asian NGOs adopt a strength-based approach to let community take the issue of HIV in their
own hands
Project with the Asian Development Bank (mid-2007 to mid-2009)
In 6 Asian countries (Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Thailand) 437 NGO and CBO facilitators 543 communities
The Constellation
Build capacity of NGO facilitators on the AIDS Competence Process (ACP) NGO facilitators facilitate the process with their communities to become AIDS competent
What happened?
Prevention
Care
Mitigation
Ownership
Another way of thinking
Community has problems, needs help
Community has capacity to
respond
We help, teach, and provide to the community
We listen and learn tounderstand the
communitybetter, and facilitateresponsesWe identify problems and
respond to needsWe reveal strengths
Community does not feel ownership
Community feels ownership
Another way of working
We build on the strengths of communities
We work as a SALT team
S : Stimulate, Support
A : Appreciate
L : Listen, Learn, Link
T : Transfer, Team
We support communities to become AIDS
Competent
Methods and tools
Promote and facilitate local ownership:
– SALT visits– Dream building– Self-assessment– Self-measurement – ….
« Projects will come and go but I’m confident that this approach will last. » (Father Joe, India)
“ACP helped destroy the old way of working, especially among those working in various agencies and helped them open up more”.
“It promotes tremendous sharing and learning in communities”“ACP helps people see their own capacities. They no longer need anyone to tell them who should do what. It stimulates people to want to improve themselves”.
“The villagers told me I’d changed. I used to work the sausage way: trying to stuff all kinds of things into the community. And I used to talk a lot. Now, I am listening more, reflect more, and encourage the villagers to reflect and to express themselves more” (Anuwat, Thailand)
What NGOs think about the AIDS Competence Process
Open discussions
Community self assess their own strengths and what to improve in their response to HIV/AIDS, develop their own action plans, measure their own progress
Change in their way of working
Communities mobilize their own and external resources
People identify and address their vulnerabilities
Community owns the issue and the response
Results in communities
Thank you Thank you
for your attentionfor your attention
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