Use of Information technology for twinning aganist AIDS - SURVEY

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Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 2:38 PM

Subject: TWINNING AGAINST AIDS - SURVEY

TWINNING AGAINST AIDS - SURVEY

http://www.comminit.com/icad/

A call for your participation in a survey to find ways to respond more

effectively to HIV/AIDS through the use of information and communication

technologies (ICTs) to promote international twinning partnerships.

A twinning partnership is defined as:

A formal, substantive collaboration between two or more organisations

anywhere in the world in which AIDS Service Organisations, NGOs, research

and other institutions come together to contribute to each others work and

to learn from each other's experiences.

This survey is part of a process seeking input from around the world on

how

best to use ICTs to enhance the exchange of information, skills and

experience on HIV/AIDS prevention, care, treatment and support. It seeks

your participation to explore how ICTs can be used to improve and increase

the impact of such collaborations and solicits perspectives on what makes

for successful twinning/partnerships.

The process began with a forum to discuss twinning/partnership

Opportunities

hosted by the North American Council of AIDS Service Organizations

(NACASO)

in December 2001 and attended by representatives from 25 organizations

from

Latin America, the Caribbean, Canada and the USA. During this meeting a

number of obstacles to developing twinning/partnerships were identified

such

as the difficulty organizations have in meeting partners with similar

interests and the lack of a central place to share lessons learned from

working collaboratively. The forum decided, with the assistance of the

Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), to conduct a study that

would further elaborate the obstacles, needs, interests and capacities of

ASO's and other organizations working on issues of prevention, care,

treatment and support.

The survey questions are divided into sections which seek to identify:

1. the kinds of issues, challenges and opportunities that

twinning/partnerships might address.

2. how best to undertake twinning/partnership processes.

3. how important you think twinning/partnerships are as a strategy to

Fight

AIDS.

4. what experience your organisation has with twinning/partnerships and

What

lessons you have learned.

5. what kinds of information, skills, and experience you think you and/or

your organisation has to share with, or gain from, others.

6. what role internet based ICTs can play in advancing

Twinning/partnership

processes over the coming years.

In order to gain the most representative answers to these questions we

require input and information from the widest variety of people and

organizations engaged in responding to the HIV/AIDS crisis.

You can fill out the survey at http://www.comminit.com/icad/ through the

twinning against AIDS web site survey section or you can send an e-mail

requesting the survey to twinning@... and we will send a Word

version of the survey attached to you. Simply fill it in and send it back

to us via the same e-mail. The survey is available on-line and in Word in

English, French and Spanish.

The compiled information will be made available on the twinning against

AIDS

web site. Anyone looking for the results will find them there along with a

forum through which you will be able to join others in discussing,

critiquing and helping to refine the lessons drawn from the survey. The

results together with input from the discussion forum will be analysed by

an

international steering committee and a business plan for improving our

ability to share the skills, experiences, and knowledge that each of us

contributes in responding to the AIDS pandemic, will be prepared by next

September. Everyone who fills out the survey will receive by e-mail a copy

of the final report.

The process is coordinated by the Interagency Coalition on AIDS and

Development (ICAD) together with The Communication Initiative and an

international steering committee with representatives from the Global AIDS

Action Network, the Asia Pacific Council of AIDS Service Organizations

(APCASO), Policy Research International, Health & Development Networks,

Acción Ciudadana Contra el SIDA (ACCSI ), Consejo Latinoamericano y del

Caribe de Organizaciones No Gubernamentales con Servicio en VIH/SIDA

(LACCASO), the OneWorld Africa AIDS Channel, ICT4D at the International

Research Development Centre (IDRC), and the VSO Regional AIDS Initiative

of Southern (RAISA).

The success of this initiative depends on wide participation and we look

forward to your important contribution. Thank you.

twinning against AIDS

http://www.comminit.com/icad/

For Information:

Morry

Programme Director

The Communication Initiative

twinning@...

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