Zimbabwean stories of "Best Practice" - SAfAIDS

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• Follow-up (mentoring), by offering technical support to trained partners, to mainstream Best Practicedocumentation skills and knowledge into their organisational systemsBelow is a representation of the cycle of processes conducted by SAfAIDS when documenting BestPractices in the region. Each stage engages partners, programmers' implementers, and national/community stakeholders, as is characteristic of the Participatory Documentation Process.Figure 1: Basic Steps in Systematic Best Practice DocumentationDisseminate &inform the futureFinalisation• Incorporate feedback from peerreview• Finalise and package accordingly• Begin formulating a disseminationplanPeer Review• Select peer review team and setTORs• Submit report to teamIdentification• Several Best Practices can beidentified and prioritised• Identification can be done bycommunity group organisations,beneficiaries, government agencies,individuals and other stakeholdersCYCLEOF BEST PRACTICEDOCUMENTATIONDocument/Write up• Collate analysed data into atemplate report• Style of writing: analytical, clear,factual and concise, to suit primaryreaders, programme planners andimplementersReflection• Agree with stakeholders(implementers, donors, beneficiaries)• Conduct FGDs/key informantinterviews/observations/survey• Weigh experiences and informationshared• Operations researchData Collection• Select criteria• Design methodology for datacollection (methods, tools, samples)• Measure data against selectioncriteria, after analysis9
2. PROJECT OVERVIEW2.1 BackgroundIn 2007 Oxfam Canada presented the Kelleher Model at a meeting of all Oxfam affiliates working inZimbabwe. The tool showed that there are four areas where changes must happen in order to promotewomen's rights and gender equality. These areas are; women and men's consciousness, women's condition,formal institutions and informal norms. The meeting agreed that a lot of work was focussing on the firstthree while there were very few initiatives linked to work around informal norms like tradition and culture.The meeting observed that very few of the civil society organisations working with women understoodenough about these traditions to be able to design programmes to challenge them (informal norms). Therewere very few, if any, examples documented of Best Practices of programmes that had been successful inpromoting gender equality by addressing cultural dynamics. The meeting resolved to support a processthat would enhance understanding of Best Practices that challenge gender dynamics in a cultural contextwith linkages to HIV and AIDS.One of the objectives of this project was to compile practical case studies on projects/programmes exploringthe interlinkages between gender issues and specific cultural contexts. The other objective includedcompiling and organising existing documentation in Zimbabwe and the region on how to confront culturaldeterminants in the struggle for gender equality. This documentation process and the development ofother manuals has led to the launching of the 'SAfAIDS Changing the River's Flow Series'. The series aimsto present and facilitate a process of building a body of knowledge and skills for service providers to drawon in confronting culture and traditions so as to enhance gender equality and reduce the vulnerability ofwomen to HIV.Table 1: Details of Focus Group Discussions and InterviewThe Zimbabwean HIV and AIDS situationZimbabweTotal population (millions) (2008) 13.5Average population growth rate (%) (2005 - 2010) 1.0Projected population (millions) (2050) 19.1Life expectancy (M / F) 44.2/42.8Total Fertility Rate (2008) 3.15% contraceptive prevalence: any method 60% contraceptive prevalence: modern methods 58Births per 1,000 women aged 15-19 59% births with skilled attendants 69Maternal mortality ratio (per 100,000 live births) 880Infant mortality total per 1,000 live births 57Under 5 mortality (M / F) 100/86HIV prevalence rate (%) (15-49) M / F 12.2/18.7Health expenditure public (% of GNP) 3.6Source: UNFPA State of world population 200810
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