Advancing Women’s Leadership and Advocacy for AIDS Action is an initiative to equip and empower a cadre of women from around the world with the knowledge and skills to strengthen and lead the global response to AIDS.
Funded by the Ford Foundation, it brings together leading global agencies including CEDPA and the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW), National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC) and UNAIDS-led Global Coalition on Women and AIDS.
The initiative includes: 1) a training component led by CEDPA and its partners; and 2) a small grants program led by the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS.
Key topics addressed in the workshop included:
- Dimensions of Leadership — identify and strengthen personal and professional leadership traits to design and implement institutional, community and national responses.
- Policy Analysis and Advocacy — understand policy making processes and the impact of policy on HIV programs, services and rights; enhance advocacy skills; and develop national and/or state level advocacy strategies.
- Program Management — develop and apply techniques and tools for effective program management.
- Financial Management — improve project budgeting and financial analysis skills.
- Strategic Communications — understand and apply strategic communication techniques to educate, motivate and mobilize communities, decision makers and institutions for change.
- Fundraising – strengthen donor relations skills; learn strategies for effective fundraising; develop tools to improve the proposal development process.
- Gender and HIV/AIDS — explore the impact of HIV/AIDS on women and girls; examine global, regional and country level responses, and develop strategies for integrating gender into HIV/AIDS programs and policies.
- HIV/AIDS Technical Updates — examine, analyze and develop strategies to adapt or replicate successful, cutting edge program approaches in HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment.
The workshops were designed for early to mid-career women from NGOs, PLWHA organizations, the private sector and political institutions who work in HIV/AIDS programs at national, state, district or community levels. Women with a commitment to building women’s leadership in HIV/AIDS.
