Regional Workshop on Theatre for Development (TfD) and Sexuality

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Dear Colleagues,

Save the Children UK, Office for South and Central Asia Region is organizing

a regional workshop on Theatre for Development (TfD) and Sexuality in

Nagarkot, Nepal from the 18th to the 26th of March 2002.

We have been using TfD, which promotes greater involvement of the

participants, the groups or community that is addressed in the whole process

of identification of issues, and responding to the issues identified in its

work on sexual health and HIV/AIDS in countries of South and Central Asia.

Participatory methodologies have increasingly been used in work on HIV/AIDS.

The limitations of information and providing message in bringing about

behavior change to reduce risk of HIV infection is well known, information

does not automatically translate to behavior change.

This dynamic process that TfD entails stimulates thinking, debate and

discussion in issues around sex or sexuality, questioning practices that

increase risk or harm among the groups or communities addressed. We have

seen that the resulting interventions are culturally and contextually

appropriate in addressing these issues, it brings about community ownership

and involvement.

We have very limited seats open to external participants for the first phase

of the workshop from the 18th to the 21st of March 2002 open to development

professionals working on issues around sexual health, HIV/AIDS, gender and

related issues using participatory tools. Persons interested have to bear

their own cost for to and fro flights to Kathmandu, accommodation and cost

for food (based on actuals). There are no additional participation fees,

however.

Please write at the earliest to Vijay Rajkumar, vijay@... for

details. We will however reserve the right to select participants (as we

have limited seats).

Best regards,

Vijay Rajkumar,

Save the Children (UK),

Office for South and Central Asia Region

P O Box 5850 Kupondol, Kathmandu,

Nepal

Tel: 977-1-527152, 523924

Fax: 977-1-527266

E-mail vijay@...