TOP Toolkits

Toolkit for mainstreaming HIV/AIDS in government ministries.
http://www.und.ac.za/und/heard/
The toolkit aims (1) to assist priority sectors to identify areas where they are vulnerable to the impact of HIV/AIDS and (2) to suggest specific steps that can be taken. The toolkit has a generic section covering (i) understanding of HIV/AIDS; (ii) Why HIV/AIDS is a government issue; (iii) HIV/AIDS and Ministry employees; (iv) Planning tools. In addition there are tools for specific departments/sectors and AIDS briefs for different categories of government employees.

Gender Mainstreaming in HIV/AIDS: Taking a Multisectoral Approach
(2002), Commonwealth Secretariat and the Canada-based Maritime Centre of Excellence for Women's Health
mailto: r.jones-parry@commonwealth.int
To successfully address the pandemic, a gender perspective has to be mainstreamed into a broad-based and multi-sectoral response. In Botswana HIV/ AIDS is mainstreaming an approach to HIV/AIDS in all government ministries plans and NGO and private sector partnerships. This manual helps explain why all future work should include a focus on gender, a guide to how this can be achieved and information about what is being done to date. In India for example the Lawyers Collective provides legal aid to men and women affected with HIV. Case studies illustrate how programmes that promote HIV prevention by addressing gender as well as the social and economic factors that increase people's risk of infection are more likely to succeed in changing behaviour. It also contains an extensive list of online resources. Contact Rupert Jones-Parry, Publications Unit, Commonwealth Secretariat, Marlborough House, Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5HX, United Kingdom, tel: +44 (0) 20 7747 6342, fax: +44 (0) 20 7839 9081,

Stepping Stones Training Package
Author: Welbourn, A.
http://www.siyanda.org/search/summary.cfm?nn=665&ST=SS&Keywords=stepping%20stones&SUBJECT=0&Donor=0&StartRow=1&Ref=Sim
A training package on gender, HIV, communication and relationship skills, for use with whole communities to challenge gender inequalities and inter- generational inequalities, between men and women and between older and younger people.

The HIV/Gender Continuum
(2002) Author: International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) Western Hemisphere Region
http://www.ippfwhr.org/publications/publication_detail_e.asp?PubID=38IPPF

have developed this new tool to help investigate how responsive an organisation's services and programmes are to gender issues related to HIV prevention within an overall rights-based approach to sexual and reproductive health

AIDS: Gendering the Response
(2001) Author: Ryan, Gladys and Tallis, Vicci
http://www.siyanda.org/archive/august02_siyanda.htm

This training aid, which includes a video of the same name, is to help educators and trainers facilitate discussions with development practitioners on dealing with the issue of gender and HIV/AIDS in their work. Document Type: Guide

Gender, HIV and Human Rights: A Training Manual
(2000)
http://www.unifem.org/

Summary: This training manual includes both a one-day and a two-day training module, ?Gender Concerns in HIV/AIDS and Development?, aimed at raising awareness of the gender dimensions of HIV/AIDS. The structure, agenda and methodology of the sessions, training aids and notes for the facilitator are provided. The document is available in English, French and Spanish.

Facing the Challenges of HIV, AIDS, STDs: a Gender-based Response
(1996) Author: De Bruyn, Maria http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/Organizations/healthnet/HIV/docs/sea-aids/gend/gend78.html

This resource pack aims to provide policy-makers, planners and programme implementers with information and ideas on how to incorporate a gender-based response to HIV/AIDS and STDs into their policies and programmes. Document Type: Tool Short Summary

UNDP (2000), Strengthening Community Responses to HIV/AIDS: a toolkit
http://www.undp.org/hiv/publications/toolkit/toolkit.html

Considering HIV/AIDS in development assistance: a toolkit, Commission of European Communities
(1997) Author: Fransen, L. and Whiteside, A.
www.worldbank.org/aids-econ/toolkit

HIV/AIDS NGO/CBO Support Toolkit
The AIDS Alliance
www.aidsalliance.org/ngosupport
Support Toolkit with over 500 downloadable resources and supporting information. The toolkit includes practical information, tools and example documents to help those working to establish or improve NGO/CBO support programmes. The toolkit also describes key components of NGO/CBO support programming, based on the Alliance's experience. It also includes resources from a wide range of other organisations to bring different perspectives and experiences together.