World Aids Day 2007 Position Paper

World AIDS Day 2007 Position Paper

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Looking Back, Thinking forward

ACORD has been implementing a one year pilot project in Tanzania and Uganda, aimed at promoting the rights of PLHAs by helping multiple actors to better understand and challenge HIV and AIDS related stigma and discrimination. This is a project of its kind that piloted PLHAs as stewards in fighting for their own welfare against a backdrop of
communities and contexts that are wrought with deep-seated stigma and discrimination gainst PLHAs.

Level: Compendiun report

ARV community Knowledge, Awareness, Accessibility & the policy environment

This is a study done by Hasap in on ARVs in Burkina Faso, Tanzania and Mozambique in 2006. The studies focused on community accessibility to ARVs, Knowledge and awareness of ARVs and also examined the policy environment within which the ARV program was being implemented

Level: conference report

ACORD Stepping Stones conference report

This is the report of a 2-day conference that took place on the 6th and 7th July in Development House, London (see programme in Annex 3).

This report runs through the discussions in chronological order and records the key issues and conclusions reached in the course of the 2 days. A further shorter report, attempting to capture only the main Highlights of the Conference has also been written and can be downloaded here

Stepping Stones: Conference Highlights

The following are the Key Highlights of a 2-day Conference on Stepping Stones, which took place on 5th-6th July, 2006 in London.

Level: Report

Voices of Youth

This research paper is a product of an inter-country research project entitled ‘Voices of Youth', a key component of a regional initiative called ‘Restoring Peace Project'1.

The research was conducted in Angola in July through October 2006 by Youth Ambassadors of Peace and Citizenship (JEPC), a youth citizenship project implemented by Development Workshop (DW). The Angola research is a third
component of the inter-country research. The other two components were carried out in Burundi and Uganda by ACORD and World Vision International respectively.

EPAs Impact on African Women

This report discusses the consequences of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) on African institutions, agriculture and especially on gender aspects. EPAs have been introduced with the aim to freely access ACP countries markets and to create the conditions to increase investments, to eradicate poverty and sustain development. This represents a significant new approach from EU to ACP countries; however this new approach also creates a new inequality.

Linking MDGs & SADC Gender Equality Agenda

This report shows that MDGs have been conceptualized as a framework to ensure gender equality and development. It also links the African and SADC Agenda vision on gender equality in relation with the development.

Africa's Pathway To Gender Equality

This report gives some information on the advancement of the signing, ratification, domestication and implementation of the AU Protocol on African Women Rights.

Level: Seminar Report

Exposing Hidden War Crimes: Challenging Impunity for Sexual Violence in Times of Conflict

This report explores sexual violence in times of conflict and how it impacts the lives of its victims. It discusses the issue of impunity for sexual crimes in our societies and looks into why and how perpetrators of these crimes get away without being punished and/or made accountable for their crimes. Proposals for much needed interventions are made to address the needed political will to end this impunity, policy actions included the necessary legal standards, practical needs for SGBV victims and survivors to the specific institutional changes that need to be made by the UN and its organs, governments and its organs and civic society organisations that have programmes in conflict and post conflict environments.

Joining Hands. Integrating Gender and HIV/AIDS

Year: 2006
Key Words: HIV/AIDS, Gender, Stepping Stones, Africa, Angola, Tanzania, Uganda
Classification: Report
Authors: Angela Hadjipateras, Harriet Akullu, Jacinta Owero, Maria de Fátima Dendo, Celestine Nyenga
Languages: English, Portuguese
Pages: 48

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