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Twinning against AIDS - Survey
Interagency
Coalition on AIDS and Development (ICAD) together with The Communication
Initiative
June 28, 2002
A call
for your participation in a survey to find ways to respond more
effectively to HIV/AIDS through the use of information and communication
technologies (ICTs) to promote international twinning partnerships.
A twinning partnership is defined as:
A formal,
substantive collaboration between two or more organisations anywhere
in the world in which AIDS Service Organisations, NGOs, research
and other institutions come together to contribute to each others
work and to learn from each other's experiences.
This survey
is part of a process seeking input from around the world on how
best to use ICTs to enhance the exchange of information, skills
and experience on HIV/AIDS prevention, care, treatment and support. It
seeks your participation to explore how ICTs can be used to improve
and increase the impact of such collaborations and solicits perspectives
on what makes for successful twinning/partnerships.
The process began with a forum to discuss twinning/partnership opportunities
hosted by the North American Council of AIDS Service Organizations
(NACASO) in December 2001 and attended by representatives from 25
organizations from Latin America, the Caribbean, Canada and the
USA. During this meeting a number of obstacles to developing
twinning/partnerships were identified such as the difficulty organizations
have in meeting partners with similar interests and the lack of
a central place to share lessons learned from working collaboratively.
The forum decided, with the assistance of the Canadian International
Development Agency (CIDA), to conduct a study that would further
elaborate the obstacles, needs, interests and capacities of ASO's
and other organizations working on issues of prevention, care, treatment
and support.
The survey questions are divided into sections which seek to identify:
1. the kinds of issues, challenges and opportunities that twinning/partnerships
might address.
2. how best to undertake twinning/partnership processes.
3. how important you think twinning/partnerships are as a strategy
to fight AIDS.
4. what experience your organisation has with twinning/partnerships
and what lessons you have learned.
5. what kinds of information, skills, and experience you think you
and/or your organisation has to share with, or gain from, others.
6. what role internet based ICTs can play in advancing twinning/partnership
processes over the coming years.
In order to gain the most representative answers to these questions
we require input and information from the widest variety of people
and organizations engaged in responding to the HIV/AIDS crisis.
You can fill out the survey at http://www.comminit.com/icad/
through the twinning against AIDS web site survey section or you
can send an e-mail requesting the survey to twinning@comminit.com
and we will send a Word version of the survey attached to you. Simply
fill it in and send it back to us via the same e-mail. The
survey is available on-line and in Word in English, French and Spanish.
The compiled information will be made available on the twinning
against AIDS web site. Anyone looking for the results will find
them there along with a forum through which you will be able to
join others in
discussing, critiquing and helping to refine the lessons drawn from
the survey. The results together with input from the discussion
forum will be analysed by an international steering committee and
a business plan for improving our ability to share the skills, experiences,
and knowledge that each of us contributes in responding to the AIDS
pandemic, will be prepared by next September. Everyone who fills
out the survey will receive by e-mail a copy of the final report.
The process is coordinated by the Interagency Coalition on AIDS
and Development (ICAD) together with The Communication Initiative
and an international steering committee with representatives from
the Global AIDS Action Network, the Asia Pacific Council of AIDS
Service Organizations (APCASO), Policy Research International, Health
& Development Networks, Acción Ciudadana Contra el SIDA
(ACCSI ), Consejo Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Organizaciones
No Gubernamentales con Servicio en VIH/SIDA (LACCASO), Panos West
Africa, the OneWorld Africa AIDS Channel, ICT4D at the International
Research Development Centre (IDRC), and the VSO Regional AIDS
Initiative of Southern (RAISA).
The success of this initiative depends on wide participation and
we look forward to your important contribution. Thank you.
Twinning against AIDS can be found on the internet at http://www.comminit.com/icad/
For Information:
Chris Morry - twinning@comminit.com
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