World AIDS Campaign (WAC)

The World AIDS Campaign brings together national, regional and international civil society groups around the call for governments to honour their HIV/AIDS commitments under the slogan “Stop AIDS, Keep the Promise.”

In this HIV Leadership through Accountability programme, the role of WAC is to support the growth and operation of sustainable national campaign platforms. This is done by engaging stage by stage in the following activities:

• Mapping and stakeholder consultations: consulting with civil society organisations and networks to assess their interest in, level of engagement around, and support needs relating to Universal Access campaigning, advocacy and lobbying. Linking this to information on democratic space in the country.
• Ongoing development of campaign plans: Identify agencies to participate in a national steering committee to develop a campaign plan and begin detailed discussions.
• National Civil Society meetings: with agencies representing the fullest range of constituencies, to identify campaign priorities and support the formation of a Civil Society campaign platform. Key elements of these meetings include:
  • Ensuring that people living with HIV have a key role to play in the campaign leadership.
  • Providing the information and skills to enable interested agencies to monitor national AIDS plans and programmes.
  • A communications and mobilisation plan with the necessary supporting tools and resources.
• Building external support: linking to regional, continental and global networks which can provide support, which have successfully tackled similar campaign challenges and which will lessen the sense of isolation. This promotes 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 the platform.
• In-country staff support: at this stage a part-time staff member will be recruited to help guide and inform the in-country campaign work and act as a link back to WAC. Over time this role will be integrated into local agency structures.

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