Civil Society Platforms

Within each country, over a two-year period, World AIDS Campaign catalyses and facilitates sustainable national campaign platforms. This is done by engaging in the following activities:

Mapping and stakeholder consultations

Consulting with civil society organisations (CSOs), existing civil society (CS) partnerships or campaigns to assess their needs, interest in, capacity and commitment to national efforts around Universal Access; outlining the levels of CS engagement, and the current state of accountability mechanisms in country.

Ongoing development of campaign plans

Ongoing commitment from the national steering committees to develop objectives, targets and partnerships for comprehensive campaigning and mobilisation at all levels.

National CSO meetings

with CSOs representing the fullest range of constituencies, to consultation outcomes and support the inception of a CS campaign platform. Follow up actions include:

The integration of PLHIV perspectives with leadership in national campaigning.
Sharing the baseline research methodology enabling stakeholders to monitor national AIDS plans and programmes to inform campaign messages on leadership and accountability for Universal Access.
A communications and mobilisation plan with the necessary supporting tools and resources.

Sub-Regional workshops

to engage and link neighbouring countries for joint campaigning work.

To share campaigning experiences, best practices and lessons learned.
To access more effectively information on Universal Access, governance and transparency.
To promote a coordinated approach to campaigning and mobilisation.

Monitoring and Evaluation

to develop in partnership, national Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) processes to monitor campaigning impact and good governance for CSOs.

Linking national campaigns with regional and international efforts

CS’s own experience and agenda should feed into specific regional campaigns as well as opportunities for international exposure, for example as part of country delegations to UNGASS meetings. Evidence and experience at national level as well as linking to PLHIV and CS networks at regional level will be critical for informing regional and international activities, including the contributions to consultations, development of policies and programmes and representation at international bodies.

For more information on the Africa Roadmap (regional campaign platform) please click here

For more information on the civil society campaign platforms please click here