January 2015 Workshop
TB/HIV gender assessments: Building the capacity for TB activists to advance gender equality through national and Global Fund programmes
[Note: The January 2015 workshop was not formally part of the Women4GF initiative. It is summarized here nonetheless because its focus, associated documentation and discussion are all highly relevant to Women4GF. Also, the workshop was co-organized by Women4GF’s hosting organization, AIDS Strategy, Advocacy and Policy (ASAP).]
More than 30 participants from a total of 21 countries gathered in Nairobi, Kenya from 13-15 January 2015 for a workshop aimed at supporting them to advance gender equality in their nations’ TB/HIV responses. AIDS Strategy, Advocacy and Policy (ASAP) organized and co-hosted the workshop along with the Stop TB Partnership, the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the Global Coalition of TB Activists (GCTA).
The main objectives of the workshop were twofold:
- to help improve the capacity of the participants ‒ all of whom are TB, HIV and/or gender equality advocates ‒ to ensure that essential TB and HIV programmes fully reflect the highest quality gender-equity standards; and
- to provide space for community-based advocates to review and give feedback on a new TB/HIV Gender Assessment Tool developed by UNAIDS with the Stop TB Partnership (and supported by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria).
The workshop consisted of a series of informational presentations about TB and gender, as well as the Global Fund, and group work in which participants reviewed the draft Gender Assessment Tool and associated documents.
Background Information and Documents
The following documents are the full text of several of the presentations delivered at the workshop. Additional materials, including a meeting report, will be made available once they are finalized.
TB and gender equality: building a movement
The full text of a presentation, by a representative of the Global Coalition of TB Activists (GCTA), at the a January 2015 workshop on TB and gender in Nairobi, Kenya. The presentation includes background information on the different impacts of TB on women and men as well as definitions of key terms that can help clarify important gender equality and equity issues in TB responses.
TB and gender: some of the evidence (results from a rapid review)
The full text of a presentation, by a Jhpiego South Africa’s HIV/AIDS and TB Regional Technical Advisor, at a January 2015 workshop on TB and gender in Nairobi, Kenya. The presentation summarizes findings from a “rapid review” of evidence regarding TB and gender in scientific and research literature.
Journal article on gender in TB research
An article titled “Gender in tuberculosis research” from the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease in 2008. By using tuberculosis as a case study, the authors “outline the contribution of gender studies in the control of disease and highlight the ongoing challenges that need to be addressed to enhance the understanding of the role of gender in public health.”
TB, gender and the Global Fund
The full text of a presentation, by the Technical Advisor of the Global Fund’s Community, Rights and Gender Department, at a January 2015 workshop on TB and gender in Nairobi, Kenya. The presentation summarizes recent developments at the Global Fund in regards to helping “genderize” programmes, including the implementation of the Gender Equality Strategy (GES). Opportunities for Global Fund support to community groups and advocates are also discussed.
Overview of the TB/HIV Gender Assessment Tool
The full text of a presentation, by a UNAIDS representative, at a January 2015 workshop on TB and gender in Nairobi, Kenya. The presentation provides an overview of a new Tool that aims to support in-country stakeholders to improve national programmes from a gender equality and equity perspective. At the time the workshop took place, the Tool was still in draft format ‒ and the feedback and input from workshop participants was to be used to help finalize it.
Lessons learned from application of the HIV Gender Assessment Tool
The full text of a presentation, by an African gender expert, at a January 2015 workshop on TB and gender in Nairobi, Kenya. The presentation summarizes some findings and observations from her work in applying UNAIDS’ HIV Gender Assessment Tool in several countries, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. The new TB/HIV Tool is based to a significant extent on the HIV-specific one.
More information about the workshop can be obtained by contacting ASAP at info@asapltd.com.
October 2013 Workshop
From 27 — 29 October 2013, TB advocates met in Paris to focus on gender equality and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund).
Outcomes Statements
Download a PDF of the statement
Read the statement online
Meeting Reports
Presentations
The UNAIDS Gender Assessment Tool for National HIV Responses
Gender Equality and HIV Programming — a Spectrum
Actions from Joint Civil Society Delegations Consultation on NFM
Photos
Background Documents
To download a document, right click (or, control click if using a computer made by Apple) on the document’s link.
This range of documents provides a varied insight into the Global Fund, the new funding model (NFM) and the Gender Equality Strategy (GES). For those who have limited knowledge of the Global Fund this is a useful video introduction to the Global Fund (just 10 minutes long):
Introduction to The Global Fund
Global Fund Documents
The Global Fund Strategy 2012-2016: Investing for Impact
Gender Equality Strategy
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) Strategy
Community Systems Framework
HIV and Human Rights Information Note
TB and Human Rights Information Note
Community Systems Strengthening (CSS) Information Note
TB and Community Systems Strengthening (CSS) interventions
Community Systems Strengthening in the New Funding Model
Harm Reduction for People Who Inject Drugs Information Note
SOGI Information Note: Addressing Sex Work, MSM and Transgender People in the Context of the HIV Epidemic
Explaining the Global Fund
Global Fund 101
Global Fund Related Acronyms
Background to NFM and Guidance
Gender in The Global Fund: Overview of the New Funding Model [New]
Global Fund Strategic Investment Information Note
Civil Society engagement in NFM: CCM Pilot concept paper
UNAIDS Support to Countries in the New Funding Model
ICASO Civil Society Global Fund Application Preparedness Guide
Assessments of NFM
Communities Consultation on the NFM: Final Report
Communities Consultation on the NFM: Action Plan
Communities Consultation on the NFM: Final Statement
NFM Rapid Assessment (by the Open Society Foundation)
The Experience of Zimbabwe with the Global Fund’s New Funding Model
Evaluations of Gender Equality Strategy and SOGI
Formative Evaluation of Gender and SOGI Strategies (PANGAEA)
Global Fund response to PANGAEA evaluation
Global Coalition on Women and AIDS Statement
2011 report: Community-based evaluation of Global Fund’s Gender Equality Strategy from Fundación para el Estudio e Investigación de la Mujer (FEIM) and International AIDS Women Caucus (IAWC)
ASAP Background Paper on Gender and the Global Fund
Informal Paper of the Gender Equality Strategy Implementation Review
Gender and TB – Key Documents
Voices from the Field: Need to make TB programmes more gender sensitive, Citizens News Service and Women4GF
Personal stories of women and transgender with TB/MDR—TB/TB—HIV, Citizens News Service
Tackling TB and HIV in Women: An Urgent Need — Global Coalition on Women and AIDS
Gender and HIV — Key Document
Mainstreaming Gender into National HIV Strategies and Plans
A Useful Resource
Global Fund Observer is a newsletter that explains and explores the world of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. It is published by Aidspan about twice a month.
Outcomes of the July Global Retreat
Outcomes Statement
Meeting Report
Full Evaluation
Meeting documents
Pre workshop questionnaire
Agenda
Logistics note
Logistics — accommodations, getting there
Private Documents
Meeting Evaluation
Side Events
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