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Positioning HR as a Strategic Driver for HEI Workplace Programme

Explore workplace programmes in higher education, analyze strengths and weaknesses, discuss social justice policies, provide recommendations, and address governance and management challenges in HIV/AIDS initiatives.

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Positioning HR as a Strategic Driver for HEI Workplace Programme

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  1. Positioning HR as a Strategic Driver for HEI Workplace Programme By Dr Ashraf Mohammed: HOD HIV/AIDS Unit, CPUTMs. Nazeema Mohamed: Transformation Director, Wits University :

  2. Structure of Presentation • An overview of workplace programmes in higher education • Strengths and Weaknesses of Higher Education Programmes • Social Justice Policies and the role of HR • Recommendations

  3. An overview of workplace programmes • Seroprevalence Results: an overview; • The peculiar nature of higher education – the challenges in implementing a human rights agenda; • The challenges in attending to HIV and AIDS as a workplace concern – governance and issues of class and race in terms of staffing profiles; • The statusquo at national and institutional levels; • Legislation and compliance – failing to comply and commit or trying to comply and commit – where are we?

  4. Strengths and Weaknesses of HE Programmes in relation to: • Strategic leadership, decision-making and coordination; • Research and Analysis; • Workplace HIV and AIDS Policy; • Workplace HIV and AIDS Prevention Programmes; • Workplace Treatment and Care Statagies; • Monitoring and Evaluation • Resources

  5. Human Resource Departments • Governance and Management • HIV and AIDS – whose responsibility - • Student Affairs, Human Resources Departments or Transformation Offices – ownership challenges • What are the lessons around governance? What arrangements currently work and why? • Where do silos exist, how do we break out of these and build the appropriate partnerships and relationships? • Are institutional governance concerns that are reflected in the workplace report mirrored at a national level? • What are the risk factors economically and socially? • What role should HEIs play in the public health agenda?

  6. Conclusions • HEAIDS to work collaboratively with the HESA HR Directors Forum and HESA Transformation Director’s Forum to highlight the areas of concern reflected in the HEAIDS Research and at SAHARA; • HEAIDS, HR Directors’ Forum and Transformation Directors’ Forum to draft recommendations to the HESA Board on a way forward; • HEAIDS on the mandate of HESA Board works with DHET and HEQC on a memorandum of understanding on how HEIs will support the objectives of the NHP

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