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Linking social support to development

FOCUS AREA & PRINCIPLES	ACTIONS	HOW
FOCUS AREA #1: Legitimising current realities, innovations and coping strategies for the poor and chronically ill
De-stigmatise and lower discrimination Start from what’s really happening on the ground (need to feed volunteers in SA case study): legitimise and destigmatise the reallocation of time and resources Mainly women (volunteers and care givers) legitimise institutional response and reduce transactional costs	Attach value to the unrecognised, underestimated, and under-valued work of volunteers. Find ways to reward volunteers (including the elderly) looking after orphans (UWESO).	RENEWAL to fund action research on types of incentives that can help promote volunteerism for home-based and orphan care transmission of agricultural knowledge and skills, labour inputs, etc. by gender and age group Explore incentives such as: Uniforms for volunteer workersNGOs to offer awards to care givers and/or volunteers. Create a National Carers’ Day. Use the radio to report on caregiver’s work Establish Association of Carers Explore with Government occasional official visits to recognise the services of volunteers and caregivers. Establish respite care to enable volunteers to access support to counselling services to review what they are doing and what they will be doing in the future Provide access to condoms in the workplace Decriminalise commercial sex workers
FOCUS AREA #2: Targeting resources to volunteers, care givers and facilitators
Support family care givers and volunteers who provide support and skills to care givers to enable them to do their work, most carers are dispersed and unorganised; must reach them as individuals most volunteers are women	Support, strengthen and fund CB volunteer groups (these identify households, refer them to social security and provide health/education agricultural support). This is more feasible than trying to reach large numbers of individual carer givers Empower volunteers and destigmatise their work (which is risk work) Provide uniforms and recognition and provide them with protective kits Career paths and certification of skills of volunteers Volunteers farm on behalf of AIDS households, e.g. communal land allocated, vegetables grown Allocate land to home-based care volunteer agencies (e.g. RSA) Volunteers feel they cannot visit a household without taking food (link with WFP or others to distribute food aid)	Much of this is happening in RSA but funding is fragmented not coordinated. Much to learn from other countries and from nuns.
FOCUS AREA #3: Working with what’s there/Creating what is not there in terms of welfare systems
better targeting of existing resources to communities ensure the most needy benefit how to fit with existing social structures structures have to be variable and flexible find least resource-intensive options. Avoid political correctness	Mentoring of orphans; employment opportunities/private sector Support existing AIDS initiatives and programmes Facilitate access of AIDS-affected households to existing social systems (grants, school fee exemptions, etc.)	Examples: E.g. use local private/government agricultural cos. resources (technology/seeds) to develop home garden project with carers. e.g. use home care workers to facilitate access of AIDS-affected households to welfare payments Role of NGOs: facilitating and making it possible for excluded groups to participate (e.g. seeds to relieve time, mediation between employer and group). Participation and representation on local targeting groups (e.g. food relief/OVC committees); e.g. 50% women, PLWHAs, children; independent review mechanism. E.g. Government/NGO/FBO staff to seek out non-participants, vulnerable households, find out what blocks benefits, how to address
FOCUS AREA #4: Governance, Leadership and Organisation
combine efficiency with charisma well-linked to outside expertise and resources well developed, organised structures charismatic champion/ change agent foster external links, allow flexibility and direct links focus on each organisation’s comparative advantage, strengths and experience when there is no charismatic leader, foster leadership skills identify, support and work through people with leadership skills complementarity among specialised organisations building on what people are doing locally	Provincial AIDS councils coordinate and allocate tasks Linking sectors to help solve problems	Recognise trade-offs; charismatic leaders and formal administrative structure Decentralisation in decision-making and action at a local level. Start with what is on the ground. Target group and build on structures and processes as near as possible to this group, e.g. existing organisations (home-based care, education, etc.) coming together. Home-based care, agriculture and educationOrganic local solutions National strategy that encourages local solutions with active and appropriate involvement by private sector, NGOs, CBOs, faith-based organisations and government with clearly defined roles and responsibilities

Run through example of ARVs and agriculture Scaling Out: Rural radio Theater Volunteer Exchange Visits Carers Grants NEXT STEPS Solicit proposals on AIDS mitigation projects from governments, NGOs, UN and bilateral agencies. Select the best and present them in a Roundtable Meeting where AIDS mitigation project proposals are presented, reviewed in a consultative/planning process and presented for funding to selected donors. Organise meeting to present new thinking to key donors and aid ministers. Country-based discussions with ag/rd practicioners on mitigation issues at local/national level. Pilot district multi sectoral processes; district reviews MASAF Malawi to mainstream HIV and needs facilitator Review national safety nets policies; build in scenario planning on changing needs

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