ENDING IMPUNITY FOR SEXUAL AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE

 

The report of the Pan African Conference on Ending Impunity for Sexual and Gender Based Violence held in Nairobi in July 2008 captures the rich discussion that is intended to ensure a call to action in addressing SGBV. Download the Conference Report Here.

 

This is Occasional Paper No. 1 published by ACORD (Agency for Cooperation and Research in Development) in October 2008. Ideas collected in this publication were made possible through interactions that occurred during the Pan African Conference on Sexual and Gender Based Violence held in Nairobi from July 21 to 23 2008from which the collection of papers presented emerged as a hallmark event in the calendar of works around sexual and gender based violence.

 

Inside Out - AIDS Competence in the Workplace is a thought provoking booklet that offers insight into the dynamic world of HIV and AIDS inside organisations as its title indicates. It explores and documents experiences of how organisations adapt their internal, policies, structures, strategies and resources to respond to the challenges posed by HIV and AIDS.

Au cours des dix dernières années, ACORD (organisation impulsée par l'agenda africain présente dans 18 pays
de la région) soutient les efforts des individus vivant dans les communautés pauvres et
marginalisées pour comprendre les causes profondes de la problématique du VIH/SIDA et
rechercher les moyens de prévenir une plus grande propagation du virus et d'en estomper les
effets. 

Download Gender and Conflict paper: A case study of Eritrea Ex-Fighters

Gender and HIV/AIDS: Guidelines for integrating a gender focus into NGO work on HIV/AIDS

Key Words: HIV/AIDS, mainstreaming, rights-based approach, community, Africa, Tanzania, workplace policy

ACORD Tanzania's experience in community-led mainstreaming of HIV and AIDS suggests that mainstreaming HIV and AIDS goes hand-in-hand with a rights-based approach. This allows identifying and tackling some of the underlying causes of HIV and AIDS vulnerability, which are rooted in social inequality and exclusion.

Key Words: HIV/AIDS, stigma and discrimination, Africa, Burundi, Northern Uganda, community, research

 

The basic premise of the two cases from Northern Uganda and Burundi is that responses and strategies for tackling stigma and discrimination must be built on communities own understanding of the problems and the solutions they propose. These case studies are part of ACORD's work aimed at promoting sustainable peace and development through supporting peace-building and conflict resolution initiatives, as well as working to alleviate poverty and improve the livelihoods of vulnerable groups.