The Importance of Water: An HIV and WASH Bi-Directional Guide

For many of us across Africa, December is a time of rain. This rain is needed for our crops, our livestock and of course our day-to-day wellbeing.

For people living with HIV, access to water is very critical and SAfAIDS have been working with WaterAid to help programmes on the ground better integrate their efforts around Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and HIV. We did this, as always, through consultation in four southern African countries where WaterAid are programming: Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland and Zambia. It was the community level dialogues that indicated the need for a field-savvy guide. With backing from Anglo America, SAfAIDS and WaterAid pulled together information to form the Guide.




During ICASA SAfAIDS hosted two days of stakeholder and community dialogues in and around the ICASA venue. One of the last ones we held was titled "Integrating WASH and HIV: Towards Improved Health Outcomes". We put together a very Knowledgable Panel with representatives from SNV, CAFOD, FAO and a local Swaziland partner Nazarene Compassionate Ministries.


The guide starts with our global targets and makes the link to PLHIV:

 

Emerging from community level are four solution areas to focus on (and give lots of practical advice, informatics and links to assist in these areas):



We conclude with some tried and tested tools, including some case study sharing, to encourage good practice on the ground. Want to know more, or how to obtain one of these guide? Get in touch info@safaids.net

As this is the last post for the year, wishing you all that you would wish for yourself.

Penultimate Post for 2015 - A Leadership Master Class

So ICASA has come and gone. Wow! In its wake we have the memory of two wonderful book launches. Let me share a little of one here.


Thanks to ongoing Irish Aid support to SAfAIDS, who are tasked to capacity build others in the HIV and SRHR sector, we put together the first in a series of booklets around Leadership in the not-for-profit sector!

The Leadership and Management of NGOd and CBOs is a reference book for both young and seasoned NGO leaders and managers. It covers a six step framework (the last one being 'never stop assessing and evaluating!'.




The foreword from SAfAIDS Executive Director, Lois Chingandu, shares a little on why we have started this Master Class Series.



Want to know more about this material, and how SAfAIDS can support you and your organisation on these issues, get in touch with us info@safaids.net