Civil society
All together now: community mobilisation for HIV/AIDS
Building capacity in community HIV/AIDS initiatives
Authors:
; International HIV/AIDS Alliance
Publisher:
International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2006
This toolkit describes the process of community mobilisation: a capacity-building process through which individuals, groups or organisations plan, carry out and evaluate activities on a participatory and sustained basis to improve their health and other needs. The guide has been designed to be used alongside "Tools Together Now! 100 participatory tools to mobilise communities for HIV/AIDS".
The toolkit describes each stage of community mobilisation in a separate section, as follows:
- Starting together: choosing where to start mobilising, with whom, when and how
- Assessing together: building the capacity of the community to carry out a detailed exploration of the HIV/AIDS issues existing within it
- Planning together: deciding upon ways to respond together to address the different problems and issues identified during the assessment
- Acting together: undertaking coordinated activities in a participatory manner, whilst adapting and developing plans as required
- Monitoring and evaluating together: measuring achievements against original aims and objectives, and using this information to further build capacity
- Scaling-up together: how to increase the number, breadth or scale of activities in order to strengthen the project's impact.
