Capacity Building a Namibian HIV and AIDS Network Organization to Better Understand its Constituency

1. Stronger health systems. Greater health impact.
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2. BLC’s work in Namibia
• Building Local Capacity for Delivery of HIV Services in
Southern Africa Project (BLC), 2010-2015
• BLC strengthens organizations in Southern Africa to
effectively address challenges of the HIV and AIDS
epidemic
• In Namibia civil society organizations (CSOs) critical role
in addressing high HIV prevalence (18.8%)
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• Namibian Network for AIDS Service Organisations
(NANASO)
• Global Fund Principal Recipient
• Network & advocacy organization
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3. Location of 234 CSOs
35.6%
25.1%
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4. First nation-wide CSO mapping & capacity
assessment
• Adaptation of tool
• BLC Organizational Capacity Assessment Tool
• National Strategic Framework
• Training
• Protocols & indicate benefits up front
• Questionnaire & participatory capacity assessment
• Accompaniment Management Sciences for Health
Development Data
NANASO Report
of data collection, Data cleaning
ownership & Training Piloting writing &
collection capturing & & analysis
buy-in disseminatio
tools consolidation
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5. Evidence of Success and Achievements
• Teams led by 8 trained NANASO staff
(3 Male; 5 Female)
• Prepare for fieldwork
• Identify CSOs: snowball-sampling
• Record GPS coordinates of head offices
• Administer questionnaire & conduct
participatory assessments
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Members
• Capture & clean data assessment team after the group interview was completed.
• Visited 234 CSOs August 2011- April
2012
• For the first time
• Throughout 13 regions
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6. Registration, Communication & Capacity Scores
• Types
• CBO 82.5% 69.3%
66.6%
• National 15.8%
Community-
• International 1.7% 51.1%
Capacity score
47.9% based
• MoHSS 17.5% National
• Legally registered 9.8% Management Sciences for Health
International
• NANASO members Average
53.8%
• Communication
Type of organization
• Emails 44.9%
• Websites 15.4%
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7. Challenges & Solutions
• Limited funding
• NANASO vehicles; BLC fuelled
• Assist NANASO meet its conditions precedent as a Global
Fund Principal Recipient
• Despite challenges; determination
“NANASO is passionate to make the study a success…put
NANASO on the map!” Former Executive Director
• Tracing CSOs & securing meetingsfor Health
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• Snowballing through the Regional AIDS Coordinating
Committees (RACOCs)
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8. Lessons Learned
• It takes close partnership, collaboration, time & resources
• NANASO has a huge networking and advocacy role to play
• Share information with strategic partners
• USAID, Government of the Republic of Namibia - Regional AIDS
Coordinating Committees, UNAIDS, Corporate, etc
• BLC & other partners have role to continue building
NANASO’s capacity
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9. Conclusions
• NANASO better understands its constituency
• Updated evidence-based database
• Strategically and effectively utilize information to meet
members’ needs
• Improved capacity > Improve service delivery > relevance
• Approach can be replicated by other networks to
understand their constituency
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10. Questions & Comments
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11. Stronger health systems. Greater health impact.
Saving lives and improving the health
of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people
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by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public
health.
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