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  • Session 3: Leaders are People Too - Leadership for Change
    Monday, October 26, 2009 - 13:30
    Session 3: Leaders are People Too - Leadership for Change
    Managing change takes skill, patience and courage. How do we create organisations that are able to deal more effectively with change? What could an alternative civil society leadership model look like?
    Rebecca Freeth
  • Session 3: Integrating HIV and Food Security
    Monday, October 26, 2009 - 13:30
    Session 3: Integrating HIV and Food Security
    Food security and nutrition are essential components of the package of services that people living with HIV need to access. How are we designing programmes to ensure that approaches to food security and HIV are mutually reinforcing and supportive of each other? What are some of the obstacles faced...
    Joseph Francis
  • Session 3: Policy Update - National Health Insurance (NHI)
    Monday, October 26, 2009 - 13:30
    The National Health Insurance proposal before Parliament will potentially radically reshape the health service delivery model in South Africa. What does the policy propose and what are the implications for our programmes? How can, and will, our organisations contribute towards the formulation of...
    Sidney Kgara
  • Session 3: Social Networking Tools
    Monday, October 26, 2009 - 13:30
    Session 3: Social Networking Tools
    The internet provides a new medium, increasing the exposure of our organisations and the work we do. It also provides an accessible platform to disseminate information and learning more broadly. These practical, hands on sessions will look at strategies for using social networking and other web-...
    Matthew de Gale
    Matthew de Gale
  • Session 3: Post Test Counselling: What About the Negatives?
    Monday, October 26, 2009 - 13:30
    Session 3: Post Test Counselling: What About the Negatives?
    A range of services and programs are made available to HIV positive people and/or people we assume to be HIV positive. They are however, not the only people in need of services who come into contact with our organisations. What programmatic obligations, if any, do we have towards HIV negative...
    Fiona Macdonald
  • Session 2: Community service forums: true voice of the people?
    Monday, October 26, 2009 - 10:30
    Session 2: Community service forums: true voice of the people?
    Organising at a community level is often diffi cult without collaborative relationships with major social actors in that particular community. Community service forums provide a useful way of building collaboration and ensuring broad representation but they are diffi cult to set up and manage. How...
    Nkwame Cedile
  • Session 2: Who is Out if Men are In?
    Monday, October 26, 2009 - 10:30
    Session 2: Who is Out if Men are In?
    There is an increasing drive to deliver HIV prevention programs to and for men, specifi cally and separately. This raises a number of considerations for our programs: Why work with men specifically – is working with them that different? How do we work with men who are particularly resistant...
    Rebecca Freeth
  • Session 2: Participation: The Main Ingredient for Good Development?
    Monday, October 26, 2009 - 10:30
    Session 2: Participation: The Main Ingredient for Good Development?
    Participatory methods and approaches are often lauded as the ‘gold standard’ of development work. But is this approach properly applied? Or is it used only to give validity to already designed processes and programmes? What is good participatory practice? What are some of the pitfalls...
    Joseph Francis
  • Session 2: Networks for Support, Networks for Growth
    Monday, October 26, 2009 - 10:30
    Session 2: Networks for Support, Networks for Growth
    Sharing, learning and finding support from our peers are important components of our sustainability as they allow us to engage with new ideas, share learning and experiences and build cooperative relations for the furthering of our ambitions. ‘Networking’ is a much used term, but poorly...
    Denise Hunt
  • Session 2: TB and HIV: outcomes and learning from the Limpopo conferences
    Monday, October 26, 2009 - 10:30
    Session 2: TB and HIV: outcomes and learning from the Limpopo conferences
    Given the high prevalence of HIV and TB in South Africa and the complications of co-infection, organisations have taken a proactive stance in the response. During this session some feedback will be given from the Limpopo TB/HIV conferences and participants will be given the opportunity to share...
    Fiona Macdonald

Blog posts

  • Networks for support, Networks for growth
    Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - 10:31
    Denis Hunt of the AIDS Consortium facilited a session on networking: The session was  for shairing best practices and to brainstorm deas for improving networking. The session was also to maximize and strengthen links as civil society for maximum impact as well to sustain the work of civil...
  • Who are these men we are talking about?
    Monday, October 26, 2009 - 17:20
    That was the question that constantly reverberated through the room as we discussed, "If men are in, who are out". A very active session, where clearly people had very strong views on men and their role in society, their power, their abuse thereof, their culture and how they percieve...
  • The voice of the community
    Monday, October 26, 2009 - 17:15
    Community service forums: a voice for the community? This session was chaired by Nkwame Cedile from Khayelitsha in Cape Town. This session was very interactive and he opened the floor to participants to share their experiences around community development forum. We had a fruitful discussion...
  • Participation: The main ingredient for good development
    Monday, October 26, 2009 - 16:53
    An interesting discussion we had around participation as a key ingriedient for good development, was that while we all see the significance of it to ensure sustainability of the intervention, we all find it difficult. It is time and resource intensive and to add to the load, we are often bound by...
  • What colour should I paint my nails today?
    Sunday, October 25, 2009 - 17:55
    Okay, my daily challenge (well maybe not always daily) is what colour I should paint my nails.  Its real, its a challenge.... Marrakech Orange, Tahiti Cyan, Oxfam Green, or The New Black – Black? Then I bundle into a small room with about 14 other people who all do work around...

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