Municipal Partnership Program City of Toronto, Canada

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Municipal Partnership ProgramCity of Toronto,
Canada South East District, Botswana
4th Africities SummitNairobi, KenyaSeptember
20, 2006
Special Session on Localising Responses to
HIV/AIDS Achievements and Constraints
Presentation by T.K. Gamodimo CHBC
Coordinator, South East District, Botswana
Barbara Emmanuel Senior Policy Adviser, City
of Toronto, Canada
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Agenda

• Introduction
• Partnership City of Toronto South East
  District
• Federation of Canadian Municipalities
• Background
• The Beginning
• Diagnostic Mission
• Areas of Focus
• Palliative Care/Stigma and Discrimination
• Youth Engagement Strategies
• Questions/Comments

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A Partnership

• A Partnership between the City of Toronto, Canada
  and the South East District, Botswana
• Goal to build community capacity in both
  Toronto and the South East District to address
  issues of HIV/AIDS

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An Important Programme

• Part of the Federation of Canadian
  Municipalities (FCM) Municipal Partnership
  Programme (MPP)
• Facilitates local govt to local govt
  relationships
• Work together
• Exchange visits

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The Beginning

• Stephen Lewis role
• Canada must be active in the fight against
  HIV/AIDS
• Why Municipal Partnerships?
• Closer to the community
• Why Botswana?
• High rate of HIV/AIDS infection

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Diagnostic Mission

• Created in February 2002
• Purpose
• Involved a variety of community players
• To determine the communitys needs
• Define the partnerships goals and purpose

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Key Areas of Focus
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What is Palliative Care?

• An approach that improves the quality of life of
  patients who face life-threatening illnesses and
  their families
• Prevents and relieves suffering
• Identifies, assesses and treats pain and other
  physical, psychosocial and spiritual problems

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Palliative Care

• Community Home Based Care (CHBC)
• Issue Arising Available services but lack of
  skills
• Skills Transfer

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A Cross-Cutting Issue Stigma Discrimination

• Encourage those in the community to use govt
  services for HIV/AIDS testing, treatment and
  support

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What is sport as a tool for development?

• Uses sport to engage youth in community
  development projects
• To address issues that are having negative
  impacts on communities
• Goal to use sport to address issues surrounding
  HIV/AIDS

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South East District Youth Football League

• Football league owned and operated by the youth
• Over 70 teams registered U12-A17 10 of these
  are female teams
• League referees trained by the Botswana Football
  Association
• Football league incorporates Kicking AIDS Out
  Concept (KAO)
• Develops and empowers females

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Tools to Measure Progress

• Focus Groups/Observation
• Report Writing

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Sponsors/Partners

• Internationally Commonwealth Games Association
  Canada (CGAC), UK Sport, Mathare Youth Sports
  Association (MYSA)
• Nationally South East District Council,
  University of Botswana (in progress)

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• Questions/Comments