Partnerships
Caregivers Action Network
The Caregivers Action Caucus was convened during the United Nation’s 53rd Commission on the Status of Women by four global organizations – Cordaid, HelpAge International, the Huairou Commission and VSO International. It was created to ensure that community-based home-based caregivers and their priorities were recognized in this annual governmental conference focusing on the Equal Sharing of Responsibilities between Women and Men, including caregiving in the context of AIDS.
CAN envisions a global AIDS response that fully recognizes, integrates and supports community-based care and support (including home-based care) as a key and fully resourced part of the health system and the national response to HIV.
This includes, in particular, the following five points:
1) Community caregivers are recognized, affirmed and supported by being including as decision-makers in design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of resources and programs.
2) Funding for caregiving increases in quality and accessibility, espceially direct funding support earmarked for community-led responses to AIDS driven by women.
3) Increased international funding of health care services so they may support the work of women and girl home based caregivers.
4) Development and fundamental rights are seen as integral to an effective AIDS response. This includes ensuring access to water, sanitation, basic services, promoting food security, and protecting and promoting women’s land and inheritance rights.
5) Poverty reduction through increase of basic services and social protection measures along with building of capacity of community based organizations to develop livelihoods initiatives.
For more information see the CAN website at www.caregiversactionnetwork.org
Cordaid
Cordaid has provided core funding support for the AIDS Campaign since 2003.Since 2007, they have been strategically partnering with the Campaign to link grassroots caregivers together for peer learning, to organize for recognition and support, and to ensure grassroots caregivers are able to speak on their own behalves in strategic policy venues. In 2009, Cordaid and the the Huairou Commission joined with HelpAge International and VSO International to form the Caregivers Action Network. For more information visit the Cordaid website.
Stephen Lewis Foundation
The Stephen Lewis Foundation (SLF) has supported the AIDS Campaign to organize Grassroots Academies (link?) to ensure home-based caregivers and grassroots women leaders can share skills, network, and build platforms for self-support. They have partnered with the Campaign to open strategic spaces at global policy venues for grassroots women to advocate for recognition and support.
SLF supports community-based organizations that are turning the tide of HIV/AIDS in Africa.
They support women who are ill and struggling to survive; assist orphans and other AIDS-affected children; reach heroic grandmothers caring for their orphan grandchildren; and sustain associations of people living with HIV and AIDS. Since 2003, SLF has funded over 300 projects in 15 countries.
For more information, please see the Stephen Lewis Foundation website
World YWCA
The Huairou Commission and World YWCA have partnered since 2007 to ensure grassroots women leading responses to HIV and AIDS have their issues and voices heard in strategic policy venues such as the International AIDS Conference.
The World Young Women's Christian Association (World YWCA) is a global network of women leading social and economic change in 125 countries worldwide. It advocates for peace, justice, health, human dignity, freedom and care of the environment, and has been at the forefront of raising the status of women since it was founded in 1894.
The World YWCA develops women’s leadership to find local solutions to the global inequalities women face. Each year, it reaches more than 25 million women and girls through work in 22,000 communities. This grassroots development experience shapes the organization’s global advocacy agenda. For more information, see the World YWCA website.
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