Objectives
The project aims to nurture local level HIV prevention activities that promote egalitarian gender-based attitudes, behaviour and norms as well as women’s rights. It seeks to reach this goal by bringing together community- and faith-based groups and non-governmental organisations in Kenya and Indonesia who focus on HIV/AIDS, human rights and women’s empowerment and will:
- collaborate to adapt, implement, and evaluate individual and community level strategies and interventions,
- join forces to create a more favourable social and legal environment for women and girls.
Role of STOP AIDS NOW! in Kenya and Indonesia
STOP AIDS NOW! works with local organisations that are already partners of the AIDS Fonds, Cordaid, Hivos, ICCO, and Oxfam Novib, and does not seek to develop its own network of partner organisations in developing countries. Given this framework, the STOP AIDS NOW! gender development project strengthens the impact of the Dutch STOP AIDS NOW! partners in Kenya and Indonesia. How does it do this in concrete terms?
- Time and again, multi-sectoral forms of collaboration have proven more successful in the response to HIV/AIDS. The gender development project integrates this fact by nurturing a multi-sectoral approach. It brings together organisations from three different sectors that are highly relevant for reducing the increased vulnerability of women and girls to HIV/AIDS. It also brings together organisations working at various geographical levels within each country.
- The project steers away from top-down, donor-driven ways of working. It drives local partners to work collectively and places considerable responsibility and ownership of the project in their hands.
- Through its networking levels of intervention, the gender development project invests in creating broader level change for a better social and economic position of women and girls in Kenya and Indonesia. The project realises this by coalition building. This, in turn, creates a structured way for local partners to conduct joint lobbying and advocacy at a national level.
