International HIV/AIDS Workplace Education Programme (Headquarters component)

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. To share best practices and facilitate communication with the NPCs, a web-based tool for management and communication has been created. The on-line management and communication tool links all NPCs with the management team in Geneva via Internet. This on-line community has a key feature, which allows continuous monitoring of project activities in each country according to the workplan. There is also a discussion room where the NPCs can pose questions of common interest to the programme management team as well as to each other. A Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) Toolkit specify to the workplace has been developed in collaboration with FHI. The Toolkit has been pre-tested in an Anglophone and a Francophone country. NPCs and project stakeholders are trained to utilized it and developed BCC strategies and programmes. Funding has been used to top up budget of country projects in Belize, Benin, Cambodia, Ghana, Guyana and Togo. Support is provided at the country level to reach 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/02/46/USA

Admin unit

ILO-AIDS

Start date

30/09/2003

End date

30/09/2007

Total allocation

2044771

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

2044771

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