USA Contribution to the ILO Programme on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work for the Year 2005

The ILO HIV/AIDS Workplace Education Programme covers three waves of three year projects each managed by a National Project Coordinator (NPC). The Programme Management Team in Headquarters provides administrative and technical backstopping for the implementation of these projects. Technical support includes expertise in the field of monitoring and evaluation, and behaviour change communication. Funding is being used to disseminate the lessons learned and good practices of projects part of the ILO/USDOL HIV/AIDS Workplace Education Programme. Funding has also been used to start a multi-donor funded project in Madagascar and to top up budget of existing projects in Belize, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Ghana, Guyana, Malawi, Sri Lanka, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago with the aim of reaching the following objectives: Development Objectives: 1. Reduced HIV/AIDS risk behaviours among targeted workers. 2. Reduced level of employment-related discrimination against persons living with HIV/AIDS. Immediate Objectives: 1. Improved knowledge and attitudes related to HIV/AIDS risk behaviours. 2. Increased awareness and use of available HIV/AIDS workplace services. 3. Reduced stigma against persons living with HIV/AIDS. 4. Increased knowledge of HIV/AIDS workplace policy. Sub Immediate Objective(s): 1. Increased availability of quality HIV/AIDS workplace services. 2. Improved HIV/AIDS workplace policies. 3. Increased levels of workplace collaboration and commitment by labour and management. 4. Increased capacity of workplace to offer comprehensive HIV/AIDS policy and programmes on a sustained basis. 5. Improved coordination and cooperation between tripartite constituents and other partners at the national level. 6. Improved national level policy framework related to HIV/AIDS in the workplace. 7. Increased capacity of tripartite constituents to support development of workplace policy and programmes.

Project symbol

INT/05/13/USA

Admin unit

ILO-AIDS

Start date

30/09/2005

End date

31/08/2010

Total allocation

1277000

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

1237094

Development Partners

USA, United States Department of Labor, Bureau for International Labor Affairs, Office of Trade and Labor Affairs

Country/Countries

Global

Outcomes

HIV/AIDS