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Destination: To a Workplace free of AIDS issues. Welcome aboard the IBCA train!. Biz and AIDS Preparations. With The TBCA team at the 5 th ICAAP in 1999. AIDS 2002. Biz and AIDS: From GBCA to IBCA. GBCA TBCA ABConAIDS Press Conference March 2003. ISHIMA’s Web Pages: A HISTORY.
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Destination: To a Workplace free of AIDS issues. Welcome aboard the IBCA train!
Biz and AIDS Preparations With The TBCA team at the 5th ICAAP in 1999 AIDS 2002
Biz and AIDS: From GBCA to IBCA GBCA TBCA ABConAIDS Press Conference March 2003
ISHIMA’s Web Pages: A HISTORY First Page: ABC Story: Sunday, June 11, 2000 7:31:02 PM First URL: http://education.vsnl.com/sexualhealth/home First Teacher: Lawrence Weiser, GayReading.com First Subscribers: IMA – Munnar and Tata Tea Managers. First Update: Friday, September 29, 2000 5:11:58 PM First Award: MacArthur Foundation’s FLD - 1st Aug 2001. First Mail List: Yahoo Groups – 14th August 2001. First Workshop: 6th ICAAP – 6th Oct 2001.
ISHIMA’s Performance ISHIMA has produced more than Fifty Interactive Web pages on HIV/AIDS with Quizzes, Crosswords, Puzzles, and fun-filled Games. These have been sent in forty-two Newsletters to its 8000 members in the last two years.
Achievements of ISHIMA: • ISH–IMA Project is the first among plantation workers in the country: a model for other groups. • One of the first ten signatories in Asia at the 5th ICAAP in October 1999 to the Biz and AIDS Policy. • The John Hopkins University, Academy of Educational Development, ILO, and the World Economic Forum have published the work of ISH-IMA on HIV. • ISH–IMA’s Interactive Website has been awarded the MacArthur Fund for Leadership Development 2001-2002 • ISH-IMA has with the support of the Asian Business Council on AIDS started the Indian Business Council on AIDS in 2002 • The MacArthur Foundation supports the Tata Initiatives on AIDS in 2002-2003
Our Guide KNOWLEDGE IS POWER CUSTOMER IS THE FOCUS BREAK BARRIERS SPREAD AWARENESS NO COST or LOW COST TAKE STOCK, MOVE FORWARD CARVE A NICHE MAKE A DIFFERENCE DIFFERENTLY NETWORK, GROW AND SUSTAIN WALK THE TALK
The Non-Tata Group The Tata Group Tata Tea ABConAIDS Funds MacArthur Funds ABConAIDS Funds Funding Pattern of IBCA and TIA
Funding Pattern of ISHIMA and IBCA KSACS: Kerala State AIDS Control Society TBCA: Thailand Business Coalition on AIDS The Total Funds allotted by various agencies is =Rs4423560.53 The Total Funds spent =Rs4087636.59 Spent amounts are up to end-July 2003
IBCA - Mission • To implement and/or strengthen HIV/AIDS Workplace prevention and control programs of Companies in India using the Core Modules already developed by ILO and UNAIDS. • To develop linkages and work together with active leading National and International Business and Labour Organizations so that advocacy and technical capacity related to HIV/AIDS Workplace programs could be implemented and sustained among the major companies in India.
The Indian Business Coalition on AIDS (IBCA) IBCA has a Central Secretariat at Tata Tea in Munnar, Kerala and one for the Northern Region at Tata Steel in Jamshedpur.
ACTIVITIES • To establish IBCA state chapters that render training and policy consultation services to companies in the most HIV affected states of India • To foster four way linkages between the State Chapters of IBCA, the Positives, the Companies and State AIDS Control Societies to form an effective alliance for HIV Care and Support Programs in major Companies. • To promote the concept of HIV/AIDS workplace programs among companies and managers nationwide by recognizing the Nation’s best Workplace Intervention Practices, by having an Annual National Award.
IBCA & MATIA Company HQ NACO INP+ & PWN+ SC-NP+ SC-IBCA Regional Office SACS Local NP+ Local NGO Organization Mother NGO The Four Way Collaboration
Positive Networks "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -Mahatma Gandhi
Consultancies IBCA’s Project Director is a Consultant to: • The Academy for Educational Department under the US Dept. of Labour • The World Economic Forum • Royal Tropical Institute • The Stop-TB forum • The Health and Development Networks • The Tata Group as CSR Resource Person • The West Bengal State AIDS Control Society • The Sexual Health Research Centre • National AIDS Control Organization
IBCA has printed one hundred thousand calendar bookmarks with AIDS messages in English, Hindi, Tamil and Assamese
IBCA has reprinted five books on HIV/AIDS
Training of Health Care Workers for the Tata Group under the MacArthur- Tata Initiative on AIDS
ACHIEVMENTS – I Year IBCA received the Indian Science Monitor’s Award on 1st Janurary 2003.
ACHIEVMENTS – I Year From Mid March to Mid-June 2003 training was completed for the forty-eight TAJ Hotels in India.
ACHIEVMENTS – I Year Tata Steel received the Global Business Coalition’s HIV/AIDS 2003 Award.
Advocacy Meeting with Management of Tata Tea under the MacArthur- Tata Initiative on AIDS and IBCA
ACHIEVMENTS – I Year 25th and 26th July 2003 West Wood, Munnar
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