Report - Sida Studi

Epilogue
Amsterdam. After consulting the National Focal Points,
we may include this topic in the training track described
in the application for the next A&M project period.
Migrant PLWHA
• From now on A&M will take an advocacy-geared, rightsbased
approach to every activity. How to actually embed
this approach in the new project period is still being
discussed. Up to now, there are two main suggestions:
organising an expert meeting and developing more collaboration
and links with networks of PLWHA. Other
ideas include clarifying this approach on our website and
dedicating one of our newsletters to this subject.
• Under the lead of GNP+, participants of the pre-meeting
have started an online HIV/AIDS and migrancy network.
A&M will be informed when important messages come
out of their discussions and/or when actual meetings
will be held and will make these known on the A&M
website.
Migrant youth and adult collaboration
• Youth participation and involvement – from beginning
to end – in regard to interventions and policy matters
will be integral to every activity of A&M. Also here, we
are still discussing how to actually give form to this matter
in a structural way.
• A&M will support capacity-building and support of new
leadership by inviting young people to our meetings,
starting with the policy meeting in January 2006; giving
them a role in our meetings, starting with the NFP meeting
in May 2006; and where needed we will send out
letters of recommendation in support of their activities
and jobs in the field of HIV/AIDS prevention, care and
support.
• The A&M team has just hired a junior staff member
of migrant origin and will employ, whenever possible,
migrant staff members and migrant PLWHA of young
and older generations.
Organisation of the next European Migrants Meeting
• The next European Migrants Meeting will not include a
special pre-meeting for migrant PLWHA. Instead we will
organise workshops around issues that affect migrant
PLWHA, which can be attended by all participants.
• The overall evaluation of the meeting was very positive;
however, in order to improve our meetings, we need to
plan fewer workshops and consequently fewer facilitators,
so there is enough time for each workshop and participants
can get maximum benefit from them.
• The organisers should not only rely on e-mail communication
with the participants before and after the meeting,
especially where it concerns the main informative documents.
• The proposal to organise the next European Migrants
Meeting in one of the new EU member states in Eastern
Europe will be examined and carried out if possible.
The A&M team:
Zeina Dafesh
Linda Eduardo
Chris Canter
Georg Bröring
Astrid van Leeuwen
Kathelijne de Groot
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