Global Youth Coalition on

HIV/AIDS and UNGASS

WHRAP-SEA Capacity Building Workshop on

Advocacy

Hanoi, 4-7 April 2011

Who’s GYCA?GYCA is a youth-led global network of over 4,500 young leaders and adult allies working on youth and HIV/AIDS in 150 countries world-wide. GYCA's mission is to empower young leaders with the skills, knowledge, resources and opportunities they need to scale up HIV/AIDS interventions amongst their peers.

GYCA mandates

Stakeholder Analysis-UNGASSUNGASS process

United Nations General Assembly on HIV/AIDS is started on 2001 under a special session initiate by UN Secretary General. The session is a functional commission of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), It is the principal global policy-making body. Every year, representatives of Member States gather at United Nations Headquarters in New York to evaluate progress on HIV/AIDS, identify challenges, set global standards and formulate concrete policies to promote HIV/AIDS programme and policies by using UNGASS annual report.

UNGASS-the processRegional consultation: selection made by

UNAIDS national and regional offices.Civil Society representatives can join the

session but no power to vote yet present the report.

Government will send country delegation, to create compilation of recommendation based on the UNGASS report.

2008 Community research using UNGASS Indicator Youth Shadow Report

10 Countries

Youth-ledVerified by academia

Quanti-QualiUtilize original

indicator

Findings: Limited information on age disaggregated data. UNGASS Commitment failed-

The United Nations Secretary General’s reports that in 2007, national surveys found that 40 per cent of young males (ages 15-24) and 36 percent of young females had accurate knowledge regarding HIV — still well below the 95 per cent goal for young people’s HIV knowledge .

Invest on youth leadership-questionable A recent mapping of youth organizations and initiative across 21

countries in Asia done by UNFPA indicates that there is no well-established and functioning regional level youth-led network focusing on sexual and reproductive health including HIV; and it leads to scarcity of national and community based young people-led network as the problem of sustainability and support.

FIND R! Relevant Process/ EventConferences, Global Fund CCM, CSW, CPD

Relevant Key PersonRelevant Bodies/Agencies

What We do Next?UNGASS Youth Working Group Join Global Women Steering Committee of

HIV/AIDSE-Course: Political Advocacy, Project

Management, Setting up national initiativesSmall Grant Funding mechanism Join Common Ground Advocacy Team-Civil

Society Organization

GainsOn UNGASS:

CIVIL SOCIETY BOARD UNDER UNGASS PROCESS—YOUTH REPRESENTATIVE

REGIONAL CONSULTANCY

Related Event:Global Fund ATM Youth Board

DelegationMALI YOUTH SUMMIT

Advocacy Roadmap SWOT Analysis

Problem Tree- Root causes, problem, consequences

Setting goals and targets using PSMART Objectives (including research)

Identifying key stakeholders-beneficiaries, allies, opposition, influencers, decision makers

Understanding and analysing the position of your supporters, so as to develop strategies to work with them

Communications-identifying skills needed Choosing your approach-

Policy analysis proving the case for change and alternatives Demonstrating solutions

through positive project work Action research

documenting the impact of the policies or good practice of other groups .

Awareness raising either with the individual or the general

public Campaigning

highlighting, publicising and mobilising public support

Building partnerships and networking Media work

raising awareness to the media, and through them the general public and others

Mobilising the general public to put pressure on the decision makers

Creating ways for people to act for themselves

Monitoring and Evaluation mechanisms

Coordination mechanisms within the network/organisation

Visit www.gyca.org to learn more and to join us in the fight to end the

spread of HIV and AIDS!