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Women, Communities and Mining: The gender impacts of mining and the role of gender impact assessment

01/12/2009

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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This report informs mining company staff of the potential gender impacts of mining projects and introduces some tools and approaches that they can use to conduct a gender impact assessment of these projects. These tools should be of particular interest to community relations advisors as they are designed to help incorporate gender into community assessment […]

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Case study

Foundations for the Future: Strategies for the sustainability of JOHAP partners

01/08/2008

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

This study sets out to understand and share the successes and challenges of implementing partner strategies for organisational sustainability, through a case study of JOHAP (Joint Oxfam HIV and AIDS Program) in South Africa. The case study reviews literature on organisational sustainability then, through four JOHAP partner organisations, reviews how such sustainability can be achieved in practice. Aspects considered include: human resources; organisational change; […]

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Research report

Behaviour Change Theory in Practice: A review of four HIV organisations

01/11/2007

1 documents

60 pages long

Languages: English

Keywords

HIV and AIDS

Overview

The brief for this report was to produce case studies of behaviour change for HIV risk from Oxfam-partnered non-governmental organisations from the Limpopo province, in the ‘far north’ of South Africa. The research process aimed at locating behaviour change in social science theory and developing case studies of four organisations with a focus on the […]

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Case study

Youth Involvement in JOHAP Partner Responses to HIV and AIDS

16/10/2007

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

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Organisations working with HIV and AIDS are showing a growing understanding of the importance of involving young people in projects. Their participation as full, active and competent partners in program design, decisions, implementation, monitoring and evaluation is valued and sought. JOHAP undertook a case study project in order to understand better and to share successes and challenges […]

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Case study

Case Study on the Phelang Community Centre: Facilitating multi-sectoral collaboration in Limpopo, South Africa

11/10/2007

1 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Multi-sectoral collaboration is an effective strategy to achieve societal learning and change, through addressing large development issues including economic, social or infrastructure development. The strategy requires collaboration between government (the public sector or the state), businesses (the private sector) and civil society organisations. This case study aims to explore and understand multi-sectoral collaboration in the […]

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Research report

Community Engagement: Documenting strategies of the Australian Partnerships with African Communities Program partners

01/03/2007

1 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The Australian Partnerships with African Communities (APAC) Program set out for men and women in 132 southern African communities to lead their own development, to address the impacts of HIV and AIDS, to have increased food security, and to secure access to basic social services. Structurally, the APAC program had three objectives: Achieve food sovereignty […]

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Research report

A Gender Analysis of Targeted AIDS Interventions (TAI)

01/12/2005

1 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

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This report looks at the work of the Targeted AIDS Intervention (TAI) Project, an NGO in Pietermaritzburg, Kwa Zulu-Natal, South Africa, which is dedicated to HIV education and training, especially with men and boys. It looks at the impact of TAI’s work on both changing risk behaviour to reduce HIV, as well as the role […]

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Case study

Learning the Meaning of HIV and AIDS and Gender – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

20/06/2005

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The Gender AIDS Forum (GAF) is a Durban based South African Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) committed to enabling a deeper consciousness in women and men about the links between gender and HIV and AIDS. GAF is an activist organisation, a learning organisation and a knowledge creating organisation. This case study outlines the development of the organisation, […]

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Case study

Integrated Prevention and Care: Including men in care

06/06/2005

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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Centre for Positive Care (CPC) was founded in 1993, working with the communities of the Vhembe district in Limpopo Province of South Africa, providing information on STIs, HIV and AIDS, and teaching about safer sex and distributing condoms. Some critical factors led to the expansion of CPC: the rapid rise in the number of people […]

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Case study

Has the Impact of HIV and AIDS Affected the Lives of Rural ‘Gogos’?

06/06/2005

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

For some, growing old has been an opportunity to stand back from daily lfe and to enjoy some personal time. For others though, this has been a time when, traditionally, some forms of childcare have been the norm. The sometimes idealistic picture of quietude in old age is, for many, now being shattered by the […]

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