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 APA is striving to touch the lives of over 500,000 people in Tanzania`s Coastal Region in the Districts of Kinondoni in Dar es Salaam, Bagomoyo, Zanzibar and Pemba with 5 projects over three years. Irish Aid are co-funding the Bagamayo project.
Bagamayo HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care and Gender Empowerment (Tanzania)
Objective(s):
Overall Reduce people’s vulnerability to HIV/AIDS and curb the spread of the epidemic
Intermediate
1. Foster the development of AIDS Competent Communities capable to confront the epidemic in a coordinated manner with appropriate and long term sustainable strategies
2. Strengthen the position of women and girls in the society through facilitating the education of girls and the economic position of women
Intervention strategy:
The problem will be addressed by a three fold strategy which includes:
1. to reach the 82 villages and build the capacity of the VMACs (Village Multisectoral AIDS Councils) and have available trained people to assist them to initiate all communities to involve and participate effectively in tackling the problem of HIV/AIDS. The villages will be supported by the trained TOA’s (Trainers of Animators), TOT’s (Trainers of Trainers) health personnel and the already trained 3,048 persons from the previous APA/CVM intervention. Already trained person’s include teachers, traditional healers, TBAs, religious leaders, health professionals, youth, women, PLWAs.
District strategies with be developed by the key target group’s themselves with representatives from all Wards, which will then be rolled out over the district. Best practices will be shared and promoted when target groups meet to review, monitor their actions, share experience and to tackle major obstacles blocking the implementation of strategies or activities. Well trained health personnel and home based carers will input on VCT, ART, PMCT, HBC at all meeting so villages representatives are current of services available, their utilization and to promote targeted inputs where gaps are analysed. Strong grassroots teams will be established with understanding of the problem, conscious of the importance of networking and of the urgency to initiate a coordinated response to the problem.
APA/CVM in partnership with CMAC, WMAC’s and VMACs will promote a local response, foster understanding of the division of role and responsibilities and build the relationship between the various divisions in addressing the problem. APA/CVM will act as a facilitator and not implementer thus fostering the local response and responsibility to take precedence.
2. The strategy is to address the conditions that puts women and girls at high risk of HIV, infringes on their rights, promotes gender based violence and maintains women and girls in subordinate positions in society. Women and girls empowerment will be tackled in two ways by:
a) improving their economic source of income and
b) promoting girls education
Educated, well trained, competent and confident women and girls will address and take a leading role in addressing their vulnerable issues, as they will be on par with their male counterparts.
3) Facilitate women and men to confront the problem of gender inequality together. Mixed groups of women/men, girls/boys will be trained in all wards to address issues of gender inequality. They will establish core groups in all wards. District workshops with representatives of women/men, girls/boys from all wards will develop strategies to confront women’s/girls issues such as: roles in the family /community, economic burden put on women by men, violence and gender, decision making, girls education, utilization of services etc. Associations such as Women’s, Tanzanian Women’s Lawyers and Women in Development will be key partners in trainings and workshops. District strategies developed will be promoted in all villages by the core groups backed up by VMACs, WMACs TOT’s and TOA and the Associations.
the following key areas are being addressed -
- Testing Kits
- Medicine for opportunistic infections and home based care
- Family and community care and protection along with continuing education and skills promotion of orphans
- Capacity building through training of trainers for 5000 community counsellors, communicators and educators (+50% being women)
- Production of educational materials and out on radio and TV
- Income generating schemes
- Leadership and life skills development especially among young women
- Empowerment, enhancing skills and capacity building at all levels
- Data collating, analysis`s and utilisation
- Promoting integrated efforts and multi sectored approaches which involves all institutions - both secular and religious, government, private and CBO.
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