Anchoring Awareness in the Community - Handicap International

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Introduction This document provides an analysiss of the know-how implemented in the framework of a community awareness program aiming to decrease denial and stigmatization of HIV/AIDS and to inform communities of ways to prevent the disease. Its purpose is to serve as a source of inspiration for other current or future projects involving awareness actions. Most of the know-how presented below can be transposed or adapted and reused in a different context. Some of this know-how can be directly generalized; in other cases, it is more specific to our project and the project context. This latter know-how can nonetheless inspire other awareness projects on other themes. This document thus addresses both persons wishing to design a project involving development of awareness and on-site teams implementing awareness activities. Using the experience of Handicap International, this document was put together during the learning-from-experience process of a project for improving HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment in the Djibouti-Ethiopia-Somaliland cross-border region between 2006 and 2009. It includes two main parts: d A first part presenting the context of intervention, the project and the learningfrom-experience process (also called “capitalization”); d A second part presenting the know-how employed during the project. This document is included on a DVD-ROM containing: d A film presenting the project d Learning-from-experience documents (the present document, as well as two sheets identifying different types of know-how: “Facilitating the establishment of Long-Lasting Cross-Border Links” and “Strengthening the Health System”) d A toolbox with the main documents and tools used during the project. 4
Context and Methodology Part 1 This first part of the document presents the context in which the different types of know-how described later were developed. We will first discuss the HIV/AIDS regional context, then the project and its different components and, finally the methodology used for the learning-fromexperience process. 1. The HIV/AIDS regional context 06 Mobile populations and a denial of the disease 08 Alarming rates of prevalence 08 2. An ambitious project 07 Main projects elements 07 A strong awareness component 08 3. Learning-from-experience process 10 Multiple learning-from-experience goals 10 Choice of a main theme for learning-from-experience 10 A variety of learning-from-experience products 11 Hybrid learning-from-experience methodology 11 5
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