Asia Regional Workshop: Women’s Leadership in HIV/AIDS

Date: March 16 – April 3, 2009
Location: To be announced
Application Deadline: November October 7, 2008

http://cedpa.org/section/training/aids_leadership

The world has never had a more pressing need to involve women in the fight against AIDS. Worldwide, 17.5 million women are living with HIV, and three out of four live in sub-Saharan Africa. Young women age 15 to 24 in sub-Saharan Africa are three times more likely to be HIV-positive than young men of that age. More than half of all adults living with HIV in the Caribbean are women, and new HIV infections among women are rising rapidly in Asia and elsewhere.

Overview The Asia Regional workshop is the second regional workshop conducted under the Advancing Women's Leadership and Advocacy for AIDS Action initiative. It follows three workshops already conducted under this initiative:

The Asia regional workshop will be delivered by regional master trainers in collaboration with CEDPA, ICW, ICRW, NMAC and UNAIDS. The three-week workshop is intensive and highly participatory, providing a supportive learning environment for exchange of best practices and experiences, technical depth, strategy development and skill building. The workshop offers country-specific technical knowledge on the epidemic and its impact on various populations, and highlights successful approaches to HIV prevention, voluntary counseling and testing, care and support, and access and adherence to antiretroviral treatment. Participants will develop a greater appreciation for their individual leadership styles and capabilities and enhance their program management, financial sustainability and advocacy competencies.

Key topics to be addressed in the workshop include:  

Dimensions of Leadership — identify and strengthen personal and professional leadership traits to design and implement institutional, community, and national responses.

Policy Analysis and Advocacy — understand policy making processes and the impact of policy on HIV programs, services and rights; enhance advocacy skills; and develop national and/or state level advocacy strategies.

Program Management — develop and apply techniques and tools for effective program management.

Financial Management — improve project budgeting and financial analysis skills.

Strategic Communications — understand and apply strategic communication techniques to educate, motivate, and mobilize communities, decision makers, and institutions for change.

Fundraising – strengthen donor relations skills; learn strategies for effective fundraising; develop tools to improve the proposal development process.

Gender and HIV/AIDS — explore the impact of HIV/AIDS on women and girls; examine global, regional and country level responses, and develop strategies for integrating gender into HIV/AIDS programs and policies.

HIV/AIDS Technical Updates — examine, analyze and develop strategies to adapt or replicate successful, cutting edge program approaches in HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment.

Participants The Asia region Women’s Leadership in HIV/AIDS workshop is designed for women from PLWHA networks, NGOs, government, the private sector and political institutions who work in HIV/AIDS programs at national, state, district or community levels. Women with a commitment to building women’s leadership in HIV/AIDS and who meet the following criteria will be considered:

Members of networks of people living with HIV, current staff or volunteer working with government or non-governmental organizations at the community, district, state or national level in the field of HIV/AIDS.

A minimum of 3-5 years experience working in HIV/AIDS program management and/or advocacy,

Demonstrated commitment to HIV/AIDS programming or advocacy that positively impacts women and girls,

Demonstrated commitment to meaningfully involve women living with HIV/AIDS, and

Demonstrated motivation or ability to bring about change at the community, district, state or national level.

The workshop will be conducted in English and selected applicants must be highly proficient in written and spoken English.

Click here to download application form.

Beri Hull

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