Advocacy - Child rights in East Africa
Partners
This project will be carried out in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda and we are working with three partners, all of whom we have worked with before, on the International Memory Project:
Kenya AIDS NGOs Consortium (KANCO), Kenya
KANCO is a national consortium of civil society organisations in Kenya that exists to provide and promote leadership, solidarity and collaboration among its members for collective action towards effective responses to HIV and AIDS.
Women against AIDS in Kilmanjaro, (Kiwakkuki), Tanzania
Kiwakkuki is a non-governmental organization that was created in 1990 to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS in the Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania. Kiwakkuki was founded to empower women in the region to access information about the causes and consequences of HIV/AIDS and to assist their communities in combating HIV/AIDS with education, counselling, emotional support and medical care. Today, Kiwakkuki works to improve awareness of HIV/AIDS with free testing, counselling, orphan support, home-based care, and community education.
National Community of Women living with HIV/AIDS (NACWOLA), Uganda
Founded in 1992, the National Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (NACWOLA) promotes positive living for women with HIV and AIDS in Uganda. Using trainers to provide psychological support, economic empowerment and advocacy for essential services including treatment, the organisation has 30 branches and 60,000 members across the country.
NACWOLA is also working with us on the Positive Action strategic grant.
All three partners are well connected with agencies active on HIV and AIDS in their own countries and in the Eastern Africa region, including government departments and National AIDS Councils.
Previous relevant engagement with government institutions includes: KANCO's participation in negotiating Kenya’s Children's Bill (2003), and NACWOLA representing people living with HIV and AIDS on a working group during the formulation of Uganda’s National HIV and AIDS Strategic Plan (2007).
Local decision-makers are also key groups that the three partners work with; including police, legal professionals and district officials. They also have existing relationships with media has and have carried out sensitisation actvities with journalists on HIV and AIDS issues.
Healthlink Worldwide will support the development of a tailored training module on legal issues, to accompany our existing manual on memory work. We will also provide training programmes for CSOs on advocacy skills, including presentation and media skills (for radio, television and print media), identification of national decision making structures and advocacy with children; as well as undertake knowledge sharing activities, and monitoring and evaluation.
This project will run until June 2013.