Activities for City AIDS Americas
The City-AIDS Americas initiative involves three components:
1. Face-to-Face training:
• By holding best practice sharing seminars for at least 20 cities delegations per year in collaboration with the UNITAR-CIFAL Network
2. Observatory on local good practices:
• By establishing and facilitating web-based collaborative exchanges on good practices on a continuous basis
• By documenting and making available good practices to field practitioners
• By following-up with individual cities the specific commitments and objectives for improvement that they set during workshops and offering support to identify solutions to potential local obstacles
• By facilitating peer to peer assistance via email, teleconferences and on site visits
• By helping cities benchmark their practices versus other cities in the Americas
3. Training of Local Facilitators and Coaching
• By training selected facilitators to use the strategic framework for assessing AIDS Competence in order for relevant groups at city level to identify their own capacities, plan the development of those competencies and exchange know-how between those who have something to share and those willing to learn
• By adapting the self-assessment framework for AIDS Competence to the local context and engaging relevant public and private partners in cities, countries, regions and globally to implement the knowledge sharing process.
• By providing knowledge management tools and techniques to encourage continuous learning at city level between stakeholders, with other groups and networks, and the scaling up at national level with other cities.
• By creating the capacity to capture good practices of any groups on the response to AIDS, share this know-how through networks, and connect with the people who gained experience by the using web-based tools also locally.
