Toolkit for Mainstreaming HIV and AIDS in the Education Sector

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Toolkit for Mainstreaming HIV and AIDS in the
Education Sector

• Guidelines for Development Cooperation Agencies

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Rationale for the Toolkit

• Mainstreaming ensures that HIV and AIDS
• become part of the core business of a sector and
• are addressed in key functions (i.e. planning,
  budgeting, curriculum, teacher training, human
  resources, legislation, monitoring and
  evaluation)
• The main responsibility lies with ministries of
  education in each country
• Development cooperation agencies (multi- and
  bi-lateral, NGOs and civil society partners) can
  and should play an important supportive role

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Purpose and target audience

• The Toolkit supports education sector staff in
  development cooperation agencies to
• Undertake a comprehensive assessment of the
  status of mainstreaming in the sector
• Identifying key areas that are not being
  addressed and decide on priorities
• Develop a strategy for addressing the gaps
• Engage in dialogue to improve the mainstreaming
  of HIV and AIDS in education
• Periodically review progress towards HIV and AIDS
  mainstreaming
• Have access to updated resources on HIV and AIDS
  mainstreaming
• It can also be used by other audiences with a
  mandate for working with the education sector,
  including non-education stakeholders

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Guiding principles

• The Toolkit focuses on
• Building awareness
• Enhancing understanding
• Strengthening skills
• Providing specific tools and suggestions
• It is practical, straightforward with references
  to existing tools and information
• Can be used as a stand alone learning tool or as
  a resource for training

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Overview of content

• Introduction
• Joint Agency Position Paper on HIV AIDS and
  Education
• Mainstreaming Tools (12)
• List of references

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Structure of the tools

• Each tool has the same basic structure and
  includes
• A short statement of the purpose
• Guidance on how to use the tool
• Short and interactive overview of the topic
• Questions for reflection and exploration
• A list of additional resources, with weblinks

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• This tool uses a flowchart to considerWhen is
  it necessary to make a serious commitment to
  ensuring that the education sector is prepared
  for and actively addressing HIV and AIDS?
• It concludes that a contextually appropriate
  involvement of the education sector is critical
  in all settings

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• This tool
• Considers what mainstreaming is and what it is
  not
• Provides sector-specific examples of
  mainstreaming
• Examines internal and external dimensions of
  mainstreaming
• Reviews barriers to mainstreaming in practice

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• This tool encourages development agency
  education staff to reflect on the most important
  elements of mainstreaming and to reflect on
  strategies for applying these to their situation

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• This tool provides suggestions for questions to
  ask about HIV and AIDS mainstreaming
• Across all sectors
• With respect to the education sector, and in
  particular concerning
• Ethical issues
• HIV and AIDS education
• Financial resources
• Human resources
• Learners
• Legislation
• Community involvement

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• This tool provides a framework for assessing the
  status of mainstreaming and deciding on action
  points

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• This tool helps to identify
• Opportunities for mainstreaming HIV and AIDS in
  education
• Various categories of entry points are discussed,
  including
• Existing processes
• Existing partnerships
• Thematic issues
• Specific vulnerable populations
• Development platforms and policy initiatives

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• This tool presents five steps for conducting a
  stakeholder analysis which includes examining who
  is active in
• Policy
• Advocacy
• Planning
• Coordination
• Implementation
• Capacity-building
• Technical support
• Resource provision
• Research
• Monitoring

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• This tool
• Provides information about advocacy and
  communication related to HIV mainstreaming
• Includes tips on creating a clear message, with
  related examples
• Provides a framework for drawing up an action
  plan on communication and advocacy

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• This tool
• Advances key reasons for linking gender, sexual
  and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and HIV
  AIDS in education interventions
• Discusses strategic approaches to mainstreaming
  gender and SRHR
• Provides a framework for identifying critical
  elements

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• This tool
• Provides an overview of issues that impact on
  children affected by AIDS
• Emphasises the importance of differentiated
  strategies depending on epidemiological context
  and discusses successful examples
• Highlights strategies for ensuring that the needs
  of children become an integral part of education
  responses to HIV and AIDS

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• This tool acknowledges difficulties in moving
  from planning to practice and progress.
• It uses two practical examples as a basis for
  getting started
• It provides suggestions on how to move from
  planning to action, among others by
• Building on and strengthening coordination
  mechanisms
• Enlisting the support of champions
• Taking advantage of annual reviews and other
  existing review mechanisms
• Supporting capacity building
• Encouraging research and thematic discussions

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• This tool contains a comprehensive list of
  institutions and initiatives which provide
  information and support in key areas discussed in
  the toolkit, namely
• HIV and AIDS in general
• HIV and AIDS in education
• Gender and AIDS
• SRHR

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Support for the use of the Toolkit

• A PDF version of the Toolkit is available at
  http//unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0015/001566/15667
  3E.pdf
• Support and resources include
• A flyer providing an overview of the Toolkit
• Translations in French and Spanish (under
  development)
• A Training Guide for using the toolkit as part of
  training exercises (under development)
• In a limited number of cases, the IATT or IATT
  members may be able to provide technical support
  for the use of the toolkit
• Copies of the toolkit, the flyer and the training
  guide for distribution and training purposes can
  be provided upon request (info-iatt_at_unesco.org)

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About the IATT

• The Toolkit is a product of the UNAIDS
  Inter-Agency Task Team on Education
• The UNAIDS IATT on Education was established in
  2002 and focuses on accelerating and improving a
  coordinated and harmonised education response to
  HIV and AIDS
• Further information on the IATT on Education and
  for access to other publications please log on
  to http//www.unesco.org/aids/iatt
• For all information and to share your comments on
  the Toolkit please contact info-iatt_at_unesco.org