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Potential impact on health and level of service coverage as an INSTRUMENT to: � Create demand for services � Increase access to services � Expand the scope of services � Enhance the efficiency of services � Deploy additional resources for community actions � Outreach to the most vulnerable groups � Address specific problems for the perspective of health: stigma, gender identity etc. � Other Potential community development/impact on empowerment: as a GOAL to ensure: � Human rights protection and enforcement � Political pressure � Strengthening civic community and improvement of state governance � Empowerment and equality � Sustainability of activities and problem recognition � Enhancing social capital � Communities' capacity building and competence development for response to other social problems � Other Community organizations development phases, methods and recommended approaches to development As any community is capable of self-organization, for practical purposes the following key community capacity building phases may apply: � Initiative group � Structuring of organization � Productive work in strategic areas, and � Building partnership, networking At the same time, we are aware that every specific group/organization follows its own unique path which is not necessarily similar to the one presented here. The easiest and most quantifiable indicators of the community mobilization include: � regular meetings of the initiative group members; � presence of strong leader/s; � premises/ access to premises for meetings; and � group activity level in rights protection and service provision Initiative group (IG) Objectives As soon as the IG has become aware of itself as some sort of unity with common interests, it can jointly address the following objectives: There are 6 admonishments in the Bible concerning homosexual activity and ... there are 362 admonishments in the Bible concerning heterosexual activity. I don't mean to imply by this that God doesn't love straight people, only that they seem to require a great deal more supervision. Lynn Lavner, American comedian, musician and singer. From album Butch Fatale Women’s Network Summer Camp, 2003 Event of NGO “Ravnodenstvie (Equinox)”, Donetsk, 2003 83
Gay-forum event, Dnipropetrovsk, 2003 .. any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person's nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell. Truman Capote, American writer, 1924—1984. Other Voices, Other Rooms Non-governmental organization “Insight” event, Kyiv, 2008 1 Poll has been conducted among Kyiv and Odessa-based organizations. 84 1. Study the situation in the communities with the involvement of community members A good methodological description of the approach, technologies and objectives it to be found in methodological manuals on Participatory Site Assessment of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance. For many groups, one focus group/discussion on the assessment of situation provided stimulus for further productive work. 2. Forming the core of the group Informal social relations, community networks are actively used in order to ensure prevention service coverage, and for combating stigma and discrimination. While in order to provide services one does not need to form friendly relations and sympathy, when forming the core part of the initiative group one cannot do without such relations. Very often people who become core members of the IG are those who have been friends for many years and shared common experiences (being together in clinic, confinement etc.). When taking part in group meetings people often bring over their good friends. Most initiative groups were created on the basis of MSM service organizations. Some of the social workers form a base for further work within the IG. Usually, and it is only through an unforeseen concourse of circumstances that the support group begins to set itself goals to change the social environment around it thus forming an initiative group or social change group. The participants' leadership potential plays an important role in the establishment of the initiative group, alongside with the demonstrative examples of experienced leaders from other regions, attending national conferences and trainings. Sometimes it takes many years for the IG does to enter the next phase of development. Week leadership potential and opportunistic attitude may make impossible a shift in group goal setting from individual quality of life improvement to formulating desirable social changes in the society as a whole. 3. Raising awareness of the target audience regarding group activities. Information on group meetings that such group exists in the city attracts community members who are not only ready for individual behaviour changes but are eager to help other community members. 4. Setting up goals and common vision It is essential for planning to be a joint effort. Now, in some organizations work outputs and opinions of the organization leadership and members, who work with individual groups, differ significantly from the opinions of the community members themselves. According to survey findings, 1 in organizations established by members of the vulnerable communities decisions are usually taken collectively at a joint session of the team. A strong and respected leader is a guarantee of the group's success. In more professional organizations decisions are passed independently at each level of hierarchy. It is likely that the system of decision making may be one of the key indicators of difference between the LGBT community organization and professional HIV servicing organization. Initiative group (IG) As soon as IG has established itself as some sort of unity having common interests it can set specific objectives and apply the following methodologies: Objectives • Forming the core group • Raising awareness of the target audience on the activities of the group • Developing goals and common vision Methods • Regular group meetings in a safe place • Spending leisure time together. • Activities to raise the morale (sticker campaigns, street actions, creating fliers, publications about the group) • Community-based participatory assessment of the situation • Joint planning • Identity forging activities
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Content 1. Background Information.
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1 Please, see the Glossary of Terms
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1 Alfred Kinsley performed 2 studie
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There is hardly anyone whose sexual
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Round table on LGBT issues, MOH of
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1 Testing for HIV: Why Is It Needed
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65.7% of female respondents have ne
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Women’s Network Summer Camp, 2008
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1 According to the draft Order of t
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As for my homosexuality, I“ve bee
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28 on the part of the others and br
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I don't think homosexuality is a ch
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