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Fighting Stigma & Discrimination: Fighting Stigma & Discrimination
Vaidyanathan K
Programme Coordinator
CARE
The situation now: The situation now Low prevalence
Drug users as HRGs
Multi donors
Multi (most of them new) partners
Absence of denominator
The data: The data Total Popn., 140 + m
Sex ratio 106
Ave. HH size 5.5
% children below 14 41
Primary schools 63,000 +
Secondary schools 15,000 +
Teacher – pupil ratio 1:66
The Size estimate: The Size estimate IDUs 40,000
Female sex workers 90,000
Male Sex Workers 150,000
Hijiras 15,000
Clients 3.1 million
Programme Gaps: Programme Gaps Conceptual understanding
Several components un covered
New initiatives just begun
CARE – Education - HIV: CARE – Education - HIV Budget $ 56 m / year
95+ % on programme
Donors 7
Food security, health, Education, prog. Development
In HIV over a decade
In education over 5 years
Approaches: Approaches Rights based
Lively hood security
Advocacy
Partnership
Gender
Local capacity building
SHGs
Access, relevance, quality A Case study: Access, relevance, quality A Case study CHOLEN – 2 example
180 schools
15000 + students
600 teachers
3 districts, 18 unions, 8 upzillas
Achievements: Achievements Increase in gross enrollment
Increase in attendance
Low drop outs
Mastery in competency level increased
Community mobilisation & ownership
Gender inequity reduced
Improvement in teaching & learning skills
What could be done?: What could be done? Pilot experiment
Segmenting Information, education & skills
Demystifying the myths & taboos
Culture sensitive knowledge management
Using the successful models for advocacy & project implementation
Local coordination
The Core need: The Core need Strategic planning
Get to know the links and gaps
Optimisation of resources
Identify & Use the apriori expertise
Support the partner who has the depth and spread in both sectors