Priorities for 2009-2010

The Global Coalition on Women and AIDS has completed it reorganization to better serve its main objective — assisting national partners to strengthen AIDS programming for women and girls. It is now structured to work through a dual approach: 

• Creating a broad-based and dynamic network of partners working to advance national AIDS responses for women and girls worldwide who can share information, build on each other’s work and collaborate to provide the tools, research, and capacity building support requested by colleagues in the field.  This function will operate through a revitalized website which allows partners to post information on major areas of work, solicit feedback and participation, and query/search for tools, evidence and information produced by the expanding network of global, regional and field based colleagues; and,
• Providing assistance to country-level partners (including governments and civil society) to create roadmaps to strengthen strategic and operational plans around women, girls and AIDS. Where invited, GCWA will compose a small team of experts to assist countries in the development of these roadmaps. Lessons learned and technical support required by national partners will then be shared with the broad GCWA partnership so that partners operational in these countries can mobilize to support government and civil society partners as appropriate. This addresses our “alliance” function for more concerted joint action embedded in a country approach.

As the GCWA moves forward, therefore, it’s main goals include:

• Creating a forum where a wide range of partners worldwide can share information and expertise – and link this expertise with national efforts to improve national responses to AIDS
• Aligning advocacy agendas and technical work toward common goals
• Convening partners around common issues to advance knowledge and inform programming approaches (and this convening will be led by members as well as the Secretariat)
• Where invited, assisting national partners to create roadmaps to strengthen national responses to AIDS.