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Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS and UNGASS

Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS and UNGASS. WHRAP-SEA Capacity Building Workshop on Advocacy Hanoi, 4-7 April 2011. Who’s GYCA?.

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Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS and UNGASS

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  1. Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS and UNGASS WHRAP-SEA Capacity Building Workshop on Advocacy Hanoi, 4-7 April 2011

  2. Who’s GYCA? GYCA is a youth-led global network of over 4,500 young leaders and adult allies working on youth and HIV/AIDS in 150 countries world-wide. GYCA's mission is to empower young leaders with the skills, knowledge, resources and opportunities they need to scale up HIV/AIDS interventions amongst their peers.

  3. GYCA mandates

  4. Stakeholder Analysis-UNGASS • UNGASS process • United Nations General Assembly on HIV/AIDS is started on 2001 under a special session initiate by UN Secretary General. The session is a functional commission of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), It is the principal global policy-making body. Every year, representatives of Member States gather at United Nations Headquarters in New York to evaluate progress on HIV/AIDS, identify challenges, set global standards and formulate concrete policies to promote HIV/AIDS programme and policies by using UNGASS annual report.

  5. UNGASS-the process Regional consultation: selection made by UNAIDS national and regional offices. Civil Society representatives can join the session but no power to vote yet present the report. Government will send country delegation, to create compilation of recommendation based on the UNGASS report.

  6. 10 Countries Quanti-Quali Utilize original indicator Youth-led Verified by academia • 2008 Community research using UNGASS Indicator • Youth Shadow Report

  7. Findings: • Limited information on age disaggregated data. • UNGASS Commitment failed- • The United Nations Secretary General’s reports that in 2007, national surveys found that 40 per cent of young males (ages 15-24) and 36 percent of young females had accurate knowledge regarding HIV — still well below the 95 per cent goal for young people’s HIV knowledge . • Invest on youth leadership-questionable • A recent mapping of youth organizations and initiative across 21 countries in Asia done by UNFPA indicates that there is no well-established and functioning regional level youth-led network focusing on sexual and reproductive health including HIV; and it leads to scarcity of national and community based young people-led network as the problem of sustainability and support.

  8. FIND R! • Relevant Process/ Event • Conferences, Global Fund CCM, CSW, CPD • Relevant Key Person • Relevant Bodies/Agencies

  9. What We do Next? UNGASS Youth Working Group Join Global Women Steering Committee of HIV/AIDS E-Course: Political Advocacy, Project Management, Setting up national initiatives Small Grant Funding mechanism Join Common Ground Advocacy Team-Civil Society Organization

  10. Gains • On UNGASS: • CIVIL SOCIETY BOARD UNDER UNGASS PROCESS—YOUTH REPRESENTATIVE • REGIONAL CONSULTANCY • Related Event: • Global Fund ATM Youth Board Delegation • MALI YOUTH SUMMIT

  11. Advocacy Roadmap • SWOT Analysis • Problem Tree- Root causes, problem, consequences • Setting goals and targets using PSMART Objectives (including research) • Identifying key stakeholders-beneficiaries, allies, opposition, influencers, decision makers • Understanding and analysing the position of your supporters, so as to develop strategies to work with them • Communications-identifying skills needed • Choosing your approach- • Policy analysis • proving the case for change and alternatives • Demonstrating solutions • through positive project work • Action research • documenting the impact of the policies or good practice of other groups . • Awareness raising • either with the individual or the general public • Campaigning • highlighting, publicising and mobilising public support • Building partnerships and networking • Media work • raising awareness to the media, and through them the general public and others • Mobilisingthe general public • to put pressure on the decision makers • Creating ways for people to act for themselves • Monitoring and Evaluation mechanisms • Coordination mechanisms within the network/organisation

  12. Visit www.gyca.orgto learn more and to join us in the fight to end the spread of HIV and AIDS!

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