The document discusses measuring HIV/AIDS competence at the community, facilitation team, and organizational levels. It provides examples of how communities in different countries have measured their own progress in areas like awareness, inclusion, vulnerability, gender issues, and learning. It also discusses how facilitation teams can self-assess and organizations can adapt to support local responses. Key principles are that communities measure their own progress, and indicators are set at each level rather than being imposed from outside.

1. Measuring AIDS Competence Our experiences The Constellation – 14 Oct 2009 Nairobi 14-10-2009 The Constellation for AIDS Competence

5. Community We share Building the dream Initial SALT visit Facilitate self-assessment Action plan SALT visit Self- measure change Self-measure change After-Action-Review Knowledge Fair Knowledge assets Peer assist Community Facilitators SALT 14-10-2009 The Constellation for AIDS Competence we care we assess our situation we act we hope we measure change we learn & adapt

6. Level 1 – Community level Assessing our AIDS Competence 14-10-2009 The Constellation for AIDS Competence Level 1. Indicators that show us we are aware Level 2. We react Level 3. We act Level 4. Continuous action, systematizing what we do Level 5. The practice is part of our life-style 1. Acknowledgement and Recognition We know that HIV and AIDS exist. We know enough about HIV/AIDS to respond when something happens. We publicly recognize that HIV/AIDS is affecting us as a group/community and take occasional action We regularly discuss AIDS, and have a common program of action to respond. Our response to AIDS is part of our daily life. We know our own HIV status and act from strength. 2. Inclusion We are aware of the importance of involving others. - those affected and infected We co-operate with some people to resolve common issues. We in our separate groups meet to resolve common issues (e.g. PLWA, youth, women). Various groups share common goals and define each member’s contribution. Because we work together on HIV/AIDS we can address and resolve other challenges facing us. 3. Linking care and prevention We have the basic knowledge for prevention and care. We understand the link between care and prevention. some of our actions link care and prevention We systematically link care and prevention activities. Care strengthens our relationships and helps us to change our behaviour 4. Access to Treatment We access basic medicines We have access to simple treatment. We access treatment for more opportunistic infections, but not ARV. Some of us are using ARVs regularly. All those in need of ARV drugs are using them effectively. 5. Identify and address vulnerability We know who is most vulnerable within our community We help those more vulnerable to HIV than ourselves. Our response includes some specific actions to address our own vulnerability to HIV. We systematically address our own factors of vulnerability Our actions to address vulnerability to HIV strengthens us in addressing other challenges.

7. Level 1 – Community level Assessing our AIDS Competence 14-10-2009 The Constellation for AIDS Competence Level 1. Indicators that show us we are aware Level 2. We react Level 3. We act Level 4. Continuous action, systematizing what we do Level 5. The practice is part of our life-style 6. Gender We are aware of gender issues and how they are related to HIV/AIDS We notice gender issues in our HIV/AIDS work and respond to them We have started to address gender issues in some of our AIDS work We regularly consider gender in our HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support We have mainstreamed gender issues in all our HIV/AIDS work. 7. Learning and transfer We want to learn and share with others We adopt good practice from outside. We sometimes share our points of view to draw lessons from our actions. We learn, share and apply what we learn regularly, and seek people with relevant experience to help us. We continuously learn how we can respond better to HIV/AIDS and share our experiences with others. 8. Measuring change and adapting our response We are aware of the importance of measuring change and adapting our response. We begin consciously to self measure but we do not yet adapt the result for improvement. We adapt our response and occasionally measure the improvement We systematically adapt and can demonstrate measurable improvement We see implications for the future and continuously adapt to meet them while measuring the change process 9. Ways of working We are aware that AIDS challenges our ways of working. We focus on our own strengths to respond. We work as teams to use our collective strengths and resolve problems as we recognize them We regularly find our own solutions to access experiences and lessons learnt from others. We continuously seek to improve our ways of working and share our experience with others. 10. Mobilizing resources We wait for resources from others who tell us how to use them. We act when resources are provided to us. We take some initiatives based on our own resources. We regularly identify and access additional sources of support to complement our own strengths. We continuously use our own resources and access other resources to achieve more, and have plans for the future.

10. Example 1 – repeated self-assessment on AIDS Competence "We have done the Self Assessment several times. Each time we did the current level and the target for the future. So what we did was to take the results of last time and looked at what the targets were for last year and we looked at whether we had met those targets. Our concern was about the practices that did not make the target. And here we talked about what happened, why did we did not meet the target that we had set last year and how we could improve themselves more in that regard.“ Ms. Charkaporn Pandontong, Ta Tum Sub-district, Lamphun, Thailand 14-10-2009 The Constellation for AIDS Competence

11. Example 2 – repeated self-assessment on vulnerability Street children in the cities of Bacolod and Iloilo self-assess quarterly their risk behaviour with young peer educators and sex workers. "The children now openly discuss about sexuality. They first do their self-assessment individually and then share it with their peer group. They are proud to measure their own progress." "I would say that about 90% of them are changing. They go for STI screening and are going to school again instead of roaming around in the streets. They stop or reduce sex work and earn money by creating arts and selling them during fund-raising campaigns,” John-Piermont Montilla, Founder KGPP NGO, The Philippines 14-10-2009 The Constellation for AIDS Competence

12. Level Acknowledgment and recognition Inclusion Care and prevention Identify and address vulnerability Level Level Level C omparison of AIDS competence indicators pre- and post-community self assessment in 5 Bangkok districts Example 3 – comparing progress of districts with SA 14-10-2009 The Constellation for AIDS Competence Pre-intervention Post-intervention year 1 Post-intervention year 2

14. Example 5 – Verifying service uptake with control group 14-10-2009 The Constellation for AIDS Competence

15. Example 6 –Self-assessment results including baseline 14-10-2009 The Constellation for AIDS Competence

26. Linking HIV Competence to global frameworks & indicators Outcome Framework 2009-2011 Global Fund outcome framework UNGASS Indicators Multi Sectoral AIDS Program (MAP) 14-10-2009 The Constellation for AIDS Competence

30. Connecting local responses 14-10-2009 The Constellation for AIDS Competence books full of ‘best practices & lessons learnt What are the top ten things I need to know? Where can I get more detail? What can I re-use? Who can I talk to?

31. 14-10-2009 The Constellation Practice 3 - Linking care and Prevention Description of level 5 (our vision): Care and prevention are not seperated. They are used in an integrative way. Care is used in the wider sense of the word and includes emotional, spiritual and psycho-social care. Care strengthens relationships and helps to change our behaviour. Recommendations Experiences Blog link for full story & contact details Video (2 min) Existing resources If target groups take the lead in care and prevention strategies, responses will be more creative, effective and sustainable. Understand, engage and change! A NGO in San Kampaeng district in Thailand took care of children affected by HIV. Later they became teenagers with very relevant experiences and were succesfully involved in prevention efforts for the younger generation. http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/2028109:BlogPost:2541 AVERTUNAIDSNCA It's not shampoo, it’s a condom! In Bombay, the AASDHA project took advice of sexworkers and made condom packages that look like shampoo packs to avoid the stigma around it. http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/unconditional-giving Tuktuk drivers in Mattakkuliya give free rides to VCT centre. Through strong community invovlement and use of music events, tuktuk drivers (amongst many others) cared for their passengers, provided prevention messages and referred people to VCT http://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blogs/tuktuk-drivers-in-mattakkuliya