Governance Structure

Steering committee

Created in March 2011, 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 current co-chairs are:

• Nazneen Damji, Programme Specialist, Gender and HIV/AIDS, UN Women, USA.
• Zelda Nompumelo Nhlabatsi, Programme Director, Family Life Association, Swaziland

Members:

• Ruth Birgin, International Network of People who Use Drugs, Australia
• Alessandra Cabral Dos Santos Nilo, Director President, GESTOS – Seropositivity, Communication and Gender Issue, Brazil
• Lynn Collins, HIV/AIDS Technical Adviser, United Nations Population Fund, USA
• Susana Fried, Senior Gender Advisor, United Nations Development Programme, USA
• Nyaradzai Gumbonzvanda, Secretary-General, World YWCA, Geneva, Switzerland
• Ruth Kundecha, Family Planning Association of Malawi
• Neelanjana Mukhia, independent consultatn and member of women won't wait campaign, India
• Kevin Osborne, Senior Technical Adviser/Team Leader HIV/AIDS, International Planned Parenthood Federation, United Kingdom
• Violet Shivutse, Shibuya Community Health Workers, Kenya