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Preface to Expanding community action on HIV/AIDS
   Last updated: 29.06.02
Expanding community action on HIV/AIDS: NGO/CBO strategies for scaling-up
This report shares the highlights and lessons learned from the third year of “Community Lessons, Global Learning” – a collaboration between the International HIV/AIDS Alliance and Positive Action, GlaxoSmithKline. This report is also available in PDF format by following this link (40 pages, 998 Kbytes).

The Alliance is an international NGO established in 1993 to support community action on HIV and AIDS in developing countries. Since then, the Alliance has supported over 1,150 NGOs in 40 countries of Africa, Asia, Central Europe and Latin America to implement over 1,500 prevention, care or impact-mitigation projects. Positive Action is GlaxoSmithKline’s long-term international programme of HIV education, care and community support.

“Community Lessons, Global Learning” catalyses increased reflection and action amongst community groups on key themes and priorities. More specifically, it aims:

  • To help community groups to improve the quality of their HIV/AIDS work – by learning from the successes and failures of other organisations working in a similar context both within their own country and in other continents.


  • To improve the quality of support to community groups by regional and international policy-makers and donors – by communicating community level experiences and needs.


In the first year of “Community Lessons, Global Learning”, the project focused on moving beyond awareness raising in prevention work. The second year’s theme was community care and support. This report synthesises experiences from the third and final year, focusing on how NGOs/CBOs can scale up the impact of their work.

The project involved over 200 people from 12 countries in workshops in Ecuador, India, Morocco and Zambia. These enabled NGOs/CBOs and PLHA to exchange their practical successes and failures about the subject. To increase opportunities for learning, they also included participants from other national organisations and technical exchanges with groups from other countries.

This report is based on the documentation of the national workshops, but also draws upon other materials. These include a background paper developed by the Alliance and Horizons (a USAID-supported global operations research programme) to analyse the challenges of scaling up HIV/AIDS prevention and care and support programmes. This paper and a set of commissioned case studies contributed to an international seminar held in Windsor, UK, in September 2000. Along with key points from the seminar, they are included in a new publication entitled “A question of scale: the challenge of expanding the impact of NGO programmes on HIV/AIDS in developing countries”.

While acknowledging the vital role of national and international initiatives, this report focuses on scale-up at a community level. It aims to identify practical lessons learned and to make concrete recommendations for donors, governments, NGO support programmes and NGOs planning to scale-up.

Abbreviations
CBO: community based organisation
MSM: men who have sex with men
NGO: nongovernmental organisation
PLHA: people living with HIV/AIDS
STI: sexually transmitted infection

Source: Expanding community action on HIV/AIDS
This is an extract from Expanding community action on HIV/AIDS: NGO/CBO strategies for scaling-up, published by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance in 2001.

To view the whole report follow this link.

To download, complete with graphics, in pdf format (which requires Adobe Acrobat software to read it) follow this link (file size 998 Kbytes).