UNFPA’s WORK WITH FBOs Meeting of Religious Leaders to Assess Response to HIV & AIDS November 2011 Toronto, Canada Dawn Minott Technical Specialist UNFPA Headquarters, HIV/AIDS Branch

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AREAS OF HIV WORK Most at Risk Populations Strategic Planning Women and Girls Comprehensive Condom Programming Linking HIV & Sexual Reproductive Health Young People

 FBOs, religious leaders and religious institutions, are important partners in the process of development, particularly when it comes to influencing behaviour, attitudes and perceptions.  FBOs and religious groups have enormous outreach, both actual and potential, and manage the oldest, most far-reaching and diverse array of social service delivery mechanisms. Assumptions underlying UNFPA’s engagement with FBOs

 UNAIDS, EAA & Partners (Global) Inter-Faith Prayer Breakfast during High-level Meeting on AIDS  Interagency Task Force on Engaging FBOs for the MDGs (Global)  Strategic Learning Exchange: Faith, Development & Partnership course offered by UN Staff College to Senior UN staff  World Young Women’s Christian Association (Global)  International Women’s Summit: “Women Creating A Safe World” SNAPSHOTS OF INTERVENTIONS: Strategic Partnerships & Alliances

 Regional Strategy for Engagement with Faith Communities as Culture Agents (Latin American region)  Regional Framework for Partnership with Interfaith Organizations (African region)  Regional consultation resulted in framework to scale up support to FBOs for promotion of gender equality and maternal health SNAPSHOTS OF INTERVENTIONS: Strategic Partnerships & Alliances

 National Forum of FBOs established (Venezuela, and replicated in Colombia & Mexico) Roster of theologians from different religious traditions Publication on common priorities between FBOs and UNFPA Common training manual for seminarians on SRH Q&A directory addressing stigma and discrimination from a theological perspective SNAPSHOTS OF INTERVENTIONS: Strategic Partnerships & Alliances

 Religions for Peace and Latin American Council of Churches (Latin American region) Prevention of GBV Support Interfaith Committee on HIV Prevention, Treatment & Care Addressing stigma and discrimination Promoting MDG 5 (reducing maternal mortality) SNAPSHOTS OF INTERVENTIONS: Strategic Partnerships & Alliances

 Women Faith & Development Alliance (Asia-Pacific region) Enhancement of women’s status – addressing poverty and gender equality  Campaign for Accelerated Reduction of Maternal Mortality Reduction in Africa (Africa region)  Promote and advocate for intensified implementation of Maputo Plan of Action for Reduction of Maternal Mortality in Africa SNAPSHOTS OF INTERVENTIONS: Strategic Partnerships & Alliances

 Youth-friendly Spaces in community worship places Adolescents SRH, gender-based violence (Guyana)  Faith Network Ecumenical Counseling Center on combating Gender-based Violence (Malawi)  Supported development of National Plan Against gender-based violence  Radio debates by clergy addressing the church and gender-based violence SNAPSHOTS OF INTERVENTIONS: Strategic Partnerships & Alliances

 Anglican Diocese: Senior clergy as partners in addressing SRH, gender, GBV and masculinities and to create enabling environment for information and service integration into Diocese programmes (Guyana)  INERELA+: Increase organizational capacity to work in defense of the rights of communities most vulnerable to HIV (Global)  EAA: Theological Consultation on HIV Prevention (Global) SNAPSHOTS OF INTERVENTIONS: Capacity Strengthening

 Training 200 Islamic scholar missionaries to address RH issues (Sierra Leone) Leaders of religious communities on gender-based violence and to include gender-based violence in marriage counseling (Malawi)  Training of Trainers for religious leaders to link Islamic precepts with health priorities (Tajikistan) Spin-off – specialized institute for State training for religious leaders being promoted SNAPSHOTS OF INTERVENTIONS: Capacity Strengthening

 HIV prevention activities addressing human rights, stigma and discrimination reduction against people living with HIV and their families (Honduras)  Study to map FBOs response to violence against women and children (Asia-Pacific region - done by Asia Pacific Women Faith & Development Alliance)  Research on gender-based violence and published findings – “Gender-based Violence from Buddhist Perspectives” (Sri Lanka) SNAPSHOTS OF INTERVENTIONS: Technical Assistance

 EAA: Multi-Faith Pre-conference and Networking Zone (IAC2010, Vienna)  Armenian Apostolic Church: “GBV and the Christian Value System in Armenian Families” session for clergy Addressing men’s engagement in anti-GBV movement and the importance of Priests’ work in promoting male involvement  Religious Affairs Committee: awareness raising of religious leaders on HIV, reproductive health, STIs, gender issues (Tajikistan) SNAPSHOTS OF INTERVENTIONS: Advocacy & Awareness Raising

 Direct funding  Provision of technical support  Service delivery entry point (particularly in context of HIV)  Through collaboration with NGOs  Through collaboration with UNAIDS family UNFPA’s Collaboration with FBOs