Governance Structure

Steering committee

Created in December 2008, the new GCWA Steering Committee has been tasked with:

• Establishing major organizational policies, annual strategic plan and budget priorities.
• Mobilizing resources.
• Overseeing the GCWA advocacy agenda and programming.
• Mobilizing participation and providing guidance to working groups deemed necessary in support of the work of the Coalition.
• Broadening participation in the GCWA.
• Analyzing emerging issues still absent from the policy agenda, but which could be significant in the future.

Membership in the GCWA Steering Committee is balanced between UN and civil society, and includes representation from country level organizations, networks of women living with HIV, as well as leading experts on women and AIDS. Appointments are initially for a one year term, renewable for up to two years.

Co-chaired by two members, one from civil society and one from a U.N. agency, the Steering Committee is comprised of eleven members.

The Co-chairs for 2009-2010 are:

• Noerine Kaleeba, Patron and Founder, TASO, Uganda; Chair, ActionAid International Board
• Nazneen Damji, Programme Specialist, Gender and HIV/AIDS, UNIFEM, USA.

Members:

• Robert Carr, co-chair, Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition, Jamaica
• Lynn Collins, HIV/AIDS Technical Adviser, United Nations Population Fund, USA
• Anna S. Forbes, Consultant, USA
• Claudia M. Garcia Moreno, Coordinator, Gender, Women and Health, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
• Nyaradzai Gumbonzvanda, Secretary-General, World YWCA, Geneva, Switzerland
• Alessandra Cabral Dos Santos Nilo, Director President, GESTOS – Seropositivity, Communication and Gender Issue, Brazil
• Kevin Osborne, Senior Technical Adviser/Team Leader HIV/AIDS, International Planned Parenthood Federation, United Kingdom
• Alice Welbourn, Chair, the Sophia Forum, London, United Kingdom
• Anandi Yuvaraj, ICW, Asia Pacific Regional Coordinator, Bangkok, Thailand