India Learning Network

FHI360 and UoM

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Sanjeevsingh Gaikwad

HIV Prevention approaches

Community Engagement

and Ownership

Poverty;

Lack of support

structures

Decreased social status;

Decreased autonomy

Entry into SW

Violence

Vulnerability to HIV

Social ostracism

Access to services

Sex Work

HIV

Behavioral

Biomechanical

Biological

External factors (Social legal framework)

MARPs

ServicesImplementingAgencies (IAs)

(NGO Partners, Peer Educator, Outreach worker, Counselor, Nurse, Physician)

(BCC session, STI consultation, Condom demonstration, Crisis response )

(Male, Transgender, Brothel, Street, Home, Bar based female SWs)

Police

Laws

Enhancing factorsObstructing factors

Societal support

Government Support/Donor

Regular review

The Model

the Sub-Processes

Analyze

DoAct

Plan

COSTCheck

ObserveStudyTrack

EXCELExecute

CompleteEffectLearn

BIDBrainstorm

InnovateDevise

SIMStrengthenImprovise

Modify

The Learning Package

• Mapping and Risk assessment• Saturating coverage of MARPs• The Science of Scaling Up• Integrating demand generation mechanisms• Strengthening service delivery -Microplanning• Individual tracking• Risk based segmentation• Data driven execution and data use for program improvement• Community ownership, management and monitoring• Communication approaches• Coordination with Government and Partners• Transfer to Government and Communities for sustainability

The India Learning Network aims to:

Contribute to global HIV prevention practice by disseminating the approaches and lessons from scaled HIV prevention interventions in India

Exposure of HIV programmers, policy makers and implementers from key countries and

Provision of technical assistance and follow-up support.

through

Key Activities

• Developing a pool of learning resources • Conducting learning visits • Providing alternate learning opportunities• Post visit follow-up • Direct onsite technical assistance • Online technical assistance • Virtual technical assistance• Contribution to policies, plans and programs of major

stakeholders

Flow Chart

Technical Assistance- Immediate follow up

- Online TA- Virtual TA- On site TA

Guided replication for Tier 1 and Tier 2 Countries

Strategic selection of Participants for learning visits

Conduction of learning visits customized to participants needs

InformationExchange networks

Development of reports, guidelines SOPs and policy

documents

Bridge Project

Africa – Focus countries

FHI 360

Tier I

Tier II

UoM

Tier IEthiopia, Kenya,Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia,

Ghana,Nigeria,South Africa

Technical Assistance

Online• Email contacts and

customized sharing of tools, manuals and repository with selected participants

• Customized mentoring through email and chats

• Theme specific mentors for selected participants

Virtual• Virtual training sessions through webinars• Fixed time theme specific group chats and webinars• Training of trainers on manuals and tools through virtual

classrooms

Status…

• Visits from Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria, Ethiopia conducted

• Technical assistance started in Kenya, Ethiopia, South Africa

• Webinar on Strategic Behavior communication developed

• Repository of tools and manuals available on India HIV portal

• Information networks are being established• Point persons in all seven focus countries