Phansup community engagement framework

Engaging Communitiesfor Health and Development

Philippine NGO Support Program (PHANSuP), Inc.

A joint Initiative of the Philippine NGO Support Program (PHANSuP), Inc.

and the Philippine National AIDS Council (PNAC) for the Fifth AIDS Medium Term Plan for 2011-2013

supported by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance and the MAC AIDS Fund

From GIPA to MEPA…

Meaningful Engagement of Peopleliving with and those At-risk of HIV and AIDS

Community Engagement Strengthening for the Philippine HIV Response (CES4PHR) Program



....Go to the community

.......Live with them,

...........Learn from them

...................LOVE them

Start with what they know, build with what they have.But with the best leaders, when the work is done;the task accomplished, the people will say:

Lao Tsu. China, 700 BC

"WE HAVE DONE IT OURSELVES”



What is Community Engagement?**

Deepening our thoughts of what “engagement” is and how it differs from merelyparticipation and involvement, we have found it useful to see them as separateand distinct; and see involvement and participation as steps on the way toengagement such that:

Involvement… is about involvement in community activities in a variety of different ways.

Community involvement often starts with agenda and programmes that originate outside the

community.

Participation… is about people being active partners in the regeneration of

communities – contributing and sharing in the decisions that affect their lives.Participation should enable people to have a degree of power and control in theprocesses with which they are involved.

Engagement… is about continuous dialogue – the development

and maintenance of relationships and actions between communities andorganisations where decisions, are shared and based on mutual andgrowing understanding; and actions are accountable, transparent andmeaningful.

** Adopted from: http://changesuk.net/themes/community-engagement/



When people involve themselves in the services provided by

their duty-bearers, they benefit to fill their NEED

When claim-holders participate in decision-making processes,

they are claiming fulfillment of their HUMAN RIGHTS

When claim-holders engage with their duty-bearers,

their NEEDS are filled and HUMAN RIGHTS fulfilled

The Response is NEEDS-based

The Response is RIGHTS-based

The Response is Relationship-based



The involvement of the community makes their role as “need-bearers” and those who provide their needs as “service providers”

The participation of the community in decision-making makes themas “claim holders” and the service providers as “duty-bearers”

The engagement between the claim-holder and the duty-bearermakes their role as “power-holders” in the response to HIV

MostEmpowering

Empowering

LeastEmpowering

“I access services because I have a responsibility to address my own and my peers‟ HIV risk and vulnerability as

well as my country”

“I go to my service providers because it is my right to access the

services afforded to me by law”

“I go to the clinic because I need the services for my illness”



From GIPA to MEPA

The meaningful engagement of people living with HIV and those at-risk (MEPA) – is a process in which communities, their groups andleaders are empowered to be “Meaningfully Engaged” to a responsethat respond to their life issues together with their duty-bearers.Community engagement contribute to the response to HIV and AIDSin all areas of Assessment, Planning, Implementation, Monitoring andEvaluation

greater involvement meaningful engagement:

At PHANSuP, we are „Engaging Communities forHealth and Development‟



PHANSuP’s

7 Key HIV Community

Groups

PLHIV

LGBT

Male Sex

Workers

Female Sex

Workers

Street Youth

PWID

OFWs

The MePA Process: Meaningful Engagement of People Living with and

those At-Risk of HIV/AIDS



Community Engagement Mechanism

Engagement

Outcomes

(Relationship-based)

Partnership

Outcomes

(Rights-based)

Response to HIV or

any other issues

Involvement

Outcomes

(Needs-based)

Individual outcomes

(BCC)

Duty bearer: Government/CSOs

Claim holder: Communities

The Engager:



Case Study: Community Engagement for Building a Unified

(C.E.B.U.) Response Project

Duty bearers: Government/NGO

Claim holders: Communities

PHANSuP: Community Engager

City Health Department

HACT-VSMC

Social Hygiene Clinics

MSMs and Transgender

Female Sex Workers

Local NGOsPeople Who Inject Drugs

PLHIV

Cebu Response Project:MOU signed by

PWID, PLIHIV, Sex Workers community groups with Local Government and PHANSuP

5th

AIDS Medium Term Plan

Male Sex Workers

AIDS Society of the Philippines

Department of HealthUN Agencies

and the UNAIDS

IHAA

USAID

Philippine National AIDS Council



4 Pillars of Community Engagement

Pillar 1

Constituency Development

A well-functioning Community-

based Groups

(CBGs) with civically-engaged members

Pillar 2

Knowledge Management

Communities sharing

experiences and

transforming these into

useful knowledge

that address their

vulnerabilities

Pillar 3

Policy Advocacy

Communities articulating their voices

to campaign their causes

and influence enabling

policies that engage them

in the development endeavours

Pillar 4

Service Delivery

Communities driving the increased uptake of

services at the local providers through social

mobilisation



Community Groups Engaged in Key Priority Areas for HIV

Laoag

Tuguegarao

Baguio

Angeles

Olongapo

Legazpi

Ormoc-Tacloban

Cebu

ManilaQuezon City

Pasay City

Mindoro

Malay-Boracay

IloiloBacolod

Cagayan de Oro

DavaoGeneral Santos

Zamboanga



Communities with Injecting Drug Use Behaviours (People who Inject Drugs)

3 PROJECT SITES

Cebu City

General Santos

ZamboangaCity

2 Community-based Groups

1 Service Delivery Champion: Social

Hygiene Clinic

1 Community-based Group

2 Service Delivery Champions: Reproductive Health and Wellness

Center and Human Development and Empowerment Services

1 Community-based Groups

1 Service Delivery Champion: Social

Hygiene Clinic

4 CBGs and

4 Service Delivery Champions



Communities with High MSM Behaviours in HIV Key Priority Cities

10 Learning Alliance Hubs

ZamboangaPeninsula

Tacloban, Ormoc, Leyte

Street Youth

General Santos City

Iloilo, Boracay, BAcolod

Male Sex Workers

Pimps of Sex Workers

4 MSM in Cyber Space

Tourism Frontlines

Gay and Transgender Groups

Cebu, Mandaue, Lapulapu

Laguna, Mindoro

Cities of Manila, Pasay,

Quezon

Baguio, Angeles, Olongapo

Davao Region

Bicol Region

PLHIV



Philippine NGO Support Program, Inc. (PHANSuP) www.facebook.com/phansup

PHANSuP, one of the two pioneer independent national linking organizations of the UK-based International HIV/AIDS Alliance (www.aidsalliance.org) , is a health and development NGO with more than 19 years of solid experience in engaging communities co-create lasting, people-centered solutions to health and development inequities and disparities.

PHANSuP and the Philippine National AIDS Council (PNAC) forged a Partnership Agreement on 2 November 2010 aimed to accelerate local responses to HIV and AIDS through the “Community Engagement Strengthening for the Philippine HIV Response (CES4PHR) Program” using PHANSuP’s Framework on “Meaningful Engagement of People Living with HIV and those At-risk (MePA)” as a key strategy in initiating, implementing and sustaining an effective HIV response at the local level.

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