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6 Programme Management and Organizational Capacity-building
Engagement with non-state organizations and institutions
This includes:
• other CBOs/NGOs or community-led organizations of sex workers
• religious and other community groups
• media
• other CBOs/NGOs working on related areas (social entitlements, rights, violence, health, etc.).
Capacity-building helps sex worker organizations analyse the significance of socially powerful groups
or institutions, such as religious groups and the media, and learn how to engage and influence them.
Examples include changing a church’s focus from condemning sex work to respect for people with
HIV, or encouraging newspapers to report positively and accurately about sex workers’ efforts to
reduce HIV infection.
Box 6.10
Case example: Sex worker networks
Once sex worker collectives form, they can integrate with regional, national and global sex worker
networks. For example, Karnataka Health Promotion Trust in India uses a “federal” model of governance
in which local sex worker collectives form sub-district, district and state committees to increase the
negotiating power of sex worker collectives at multiple levels. The Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers
connects sex worker projects from across the entire region. The Global Network of Sex Work Projects has
representation from sex worker organizations across the world.
6.8 Resources and further reading
Strategic planning and programme management
1. Planning guide for the health sector response to HIV/AIDS. Geneva: World Health Organization, 2011.
http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2011/9789241502535_eng.pdf
2. Planning and Managing for HIV/AIDS Results: A Handbook. Washington, DC: Global AIDS Monitoring and
Evaluation Team (GAMET), World Bank Global HIV/AIDS Program, 2007.
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTHIVAIDS/Resources/375798-1103037153392/Results_
Handbook_31Oct2007.pdf
3. Guide to the strategic planning process for a national response to HIV/AIDS. Geneva: United Nations Joint
Programme on HIV/AIDS, 1998.
http://data.unaids.org/publications/IRC-pub05/jc441-stratplan-intro_en.pdf
4. Practical guidance for scaling up health service innovations. Geneva: World Health Organization and
ExpandNet, 2009.
http://www.expandnet.net/PDFs/WHO_ExpandNet_Practical_Guide_published.pdf
5.