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Sonagachi
Research and Training Institute (SRTI)
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Since 2003 onwards there has
been a surge of HIV intervention initiatives both
at National and civil society level in South-Asian
subcontinent and more specifically in India.
During this time major group of donors in the
field of HIV namely (USAID, DFID, Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation) took serious note of the
epidemic and came forward in supporting and
providing financial support for rapid expansion of
HIV intervention program in this region.
However scaling up of intervention (and more
specifically among the HRGs) was not an easy task
in all these countries in the region .Most of the
policy makers faced a formidable challenge for not
having adequate human resource base to make
intervention operational and effective. All these
factors created a space and demand for quality
capacity building initiatives which was
immediately grasped by the DMSC. This has helped
DMSC to plan and develop an independent
organization to institutionalize programmatic
research and capacity building for large number of
newly recruited project staff meant for HIV
intervention program what has led to the
development of Sonagachi Research and Training
Institute. The institute thus created was based on
the aspiration of the Community with their
available resource and potential what they could
mobilize. |
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Present status of SRTI
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Registered on: 16.09.2004 |
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Present Staff Strength
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Technical staff - 6
Management and Office Assistants - 3
Community based expert - 7 |
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Activities Undertaken
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Training : Capacity
Building
Under SRTI following activities are undertaken: |
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A dedicated capacity building unit namely CLCAB
(Community led capacity assessment and building unit). Came into existence
around 2006. We constituted a full fledged capacity building unit called
Community Led Capacity Assessment and Building Unit (CLCAB) comprising of
6 technical staff. In addition to our own community members serving as
trainers,.We could rope in couple of renowned individuals in the field of
Public Health, both from India and abroad, who did play their role[and
some are still working with us] as visiting faculty / consultants for SRTI,
based at the heart of Sonagachi. Capacity building unit (CLCAB) lends
support to national level work in facilitating formation of community
based organization, Capacity Building (C. B.) of peers, handholding and
mentoring which has benefited a score of organizations from the states
like Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Delhi, Bihar and
Orissa. All together we have provided C. B. support to a large number of
civil society organization i.e. (around 75) NGO's / C. B. O's and around
350 participants from these organization has received support during last
3 years. |
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A dedicated research unit works in partnership with
Institution based researchers and academicians both in country and abroad.
[Till date a dozen of bio medical and operations research has been
undertaken by us.] |
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A dedicated publication unit is in operation (till
date has published more than two dozens of books, hundreds of booklets and
other printing materials). |
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A dedicated documentation unit manned by specialized
technical person. [Has developed about 6 short films,a dozen of QTVR, Web
based games in addition to other printing materials.) |
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A pool of experienced community and non-community
resource persons are in place to run Immersion and other Capacity Building
Program including mentoring. |
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A pool of renowned individuals representing different
disciplines e.g. public health, sociology, counseling, antitrafficking,
economics and also from STI background are also attached to STRI as
visiting faculty / consultants. |
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It is not just a set of academicians and public health
experts but a significant number of community based
experts (who have been working in the field for more
than a decade) constitute part of the capacity building
team of SRTI. The vast experience gathered over a period
of time and a strong human resource base constitutes the
backbone of the Training Institute. |
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Research Unit
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Researches undertaken till
date
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STD/HIV - Point Prevalence Study among the SWs of
Sonagachi in Calcutta, West Bengal jointly with All India Institute of
Hygiene and Public Health in the year 1995. |
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STD/HIV - Point Prevalence Study among the SWs of
Sonagachi in Calcutta, West Bengal jointly with Central Serological
Institute in the year 1998. |
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Research study on Dreams of sex workers and their
children once they achieve the workers' right conducted in the year 1999
in collaboration with GAATW, Bangkok. |
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The role of community development approaches in
ensuring effectiveness and sustainability of interventions to reduce HIV
transmission through commercial sex: A Case study of the Sonagachi
Project, Calcutta, India - conducted in the year 1999 in collaboration
with Population Council, USA. |
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STD/HIV - Point Prevalence Study among the SWs of
Sonagachi in Calcutta, West Bengal undertaken by the All India Institute
of Hygiene and Public Health in collaboration with DMSC in the year 2005. |
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Process documentation of the collectivization of sex
workers conducted in collaboration with PRAXIS India, conducted in the
year 2005. |
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Assessing the efficacy and impact of CLSI (Community
Led Structural Intervention) approaches among the Marginalized community (Sabars
of Amlasol, Paschim Midnapore, West Bengal) as a strategy of development
(2006 onwards). |
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Socio-economic status of the Marginal community (Bhumij
of Paschim Midnapore, West Bengal) conducted in the year 2007. |
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Stigma and discrimination vis-à-vis the occupational
challenges encountered by the entertainment workers called Nachni of
Purulia West Bengal conducted in the year 2007. |
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Socio-economical status, occupational issues and
challenges among the Construction Workers (ongoing study) in Kolkata city. |
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Socio-economic status, work environment and social
mobilization (2008) process among the House maids of Kolkata (2008
onwards) |
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Reducing HIV Risk in vulnerable populations : Rapid
Policy Assessment and Response supported by Indian Council for Medical
Research (India) and National Institute for Health (USA) (2008 onwards) |
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Evaluating the Social Movement Aspects of HIV
prevention in India, The Sonagachi case' (2007), a research study
undertaken by University of California, Los Angels (UCLA) in collaboration
with SRTI. |
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High Risk Groups (HRGs) Mapping in three major States
in India (Orissa, Bihar and Jharkhand) in 2008 (ongoing) to estimate
number of HRGs behavioral pattern social network and service utilization
by them. Supported by NACO (National AIDS Control Organisation), Govt. of
India. |
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Publication Unit
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Books published till date |
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Jibon o Jounata (in Bengali) |
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Brihannalader Jiban Satya (in Bengali) |
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Looking peers-as an agent of social change-A training
module of and for the peers [in English] |
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The lovers of Sex-workers-their issues and perspective
(in English) |
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Namaskar -occasional publication [in English) |
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Parliament March-by the sex-workers [in English] |
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Fallen learn to rise [in English] |
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Existing
Infrastructure
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DMSC run 52 offices in West
Bengal, with staff strength of around 1100; who
are engaged in different health and development
program (primarily HIV intervention). DMSC run 5
full-fledged offices in states like Tripura,
Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, and Chattisgarh (One in
each state) with staff strength of 24. DMSC took
an effort to develop a separate research and
training institute leading to the development of
SRTI by 2005. At present SRTI run 2 satellite
training centers one at Domjur (around 30 km from
Kolkata) another at Baruipur (95 km from Kolkata)
with all cutting-edge training facilities. Both
these training centre provide accommodation
facilities for trainees and faculty member (50
each). |
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Expanding the scope of the Institute
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We have planned to strengthen
and expand the domain and activities of existing
Institute to fulfill the rising demand in the
south-east Asia region. As envisaged a good number
of additional training program could be delivered
through SRTI.The list of the training program
[given in the Annexure 1] is based on the need
expressed by participants and program heads. We
have planned to maintain and sustain the quality
of Capacity building through linking our C.B.
activities with the 'Centre of Excellence' with
the Demonstration Sites both at Sonagachi and
three other intervention sites across the State of
West Bengal. |
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There would be an exchange visit of faculty members
with other renowned institutes in USA and Europe to bring our faculty
members at par with other institutes and universities. |
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A dedicated group of community trainers would be
housed in the centre who would play as full time trainer for effective
transfer of knowledge and skill to trainees. |
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A full fledged research team would be in place to
develop research protocol and to implement different research activities
in collaboration with other institutions and universities both at
international and national level. |
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A set of training tools could be developed keeping in
view the interest of various stakeholders. |
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Mechanism to deliver C. B. Initiatives
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The Training Institute is
expected to carry out : |
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Classroom Training |
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Hands on Training |
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Plan and execute Exposure Visits |
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Run structured Immersion program |
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Short term placement of trainees / Interns in the
training field (Ranging from one week to several weeks); 6. Arrange
special discussion session inviting renowned speakers / experts in the
field as guest faculty |
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Organize workshop / seminar etc |
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We planed to introduce digital training during the
second phase of development of the institute. |
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In addition to that the Centre will provide
capacity building support through: |
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Placement of community leaders as 'Graftees. |
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Providing consultancy services to civil society /
National program organization and other institution. |
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Mentorship |
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Short term placement of trainees in the demonstration
sites. |
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Linkage Development
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The proposed institute will have linkages with
universities in India and abroad |
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We have planned to develop this as a referral
Institute linked to WHO / other UN agencies. |
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The Institute has already developed strong linkages
with other community based organization and movements. Our present network
with varied types of organizations would be leveraged to carry out
operations research and policy level dialogue. |
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Long term perspective of SRTI
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We intend to develop SRTI as an independent academic
institution forging formal recognition from relevant academic regulatory
bodies in India. |
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In collaboration with National and International
organizations SRTI would establish a 'Quality control' mechanism for
Capacity building. |
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Running short term courses in partnership with
universities ( of public health importance) for undergraduate / graduate
scholars in the country. |
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Develop strategy and appropriate material on policy
dialogue in addition to facilitating dialogue between community
representatives with the policy makers. |
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Marketing and Packaging
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We would try to publicise SRTI
to project its significance to different agencies
and government Institution using various tools and
strategies. We would like to develop/publish : |
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Brochure |
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Website |
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E-forum |
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Advertisements |
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Tele promotion |
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But in addition to that we wish to develop an
elaborate marketing strategy to reach out to our
probable consumers. |
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Organizational Structure [what we envisage in the
developed stage of the institute]
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The organizational structure
of SRTI will be Deemed / Affiliated / Registered.
The policy making functions will be managed
through the board of Directors through 3 main
bodies focused at Research, Capacity Building and
policy dialogue. |
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The highest policy making body would be the Board of
Management. The Director / Principal will be the chairman of this board.
The Executive Council will consist of both community and non community
members. |
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The main task of the Executive Council will be
implementing the complete administrative matters. |
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The Research Advisory Committee is responsible to
guide all round progress of research at the Institute and its application. |
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The Academic Council is responsible for all issues
relating to the education and training. |
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The Director is overall Administrative Head of the
Institute. The Joint Directors in addition to extending support to the
Director in the area of Research, Training and Administration will be
responsible to co-ordinate educational and research activities at various
levels. |
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Proposed Organogram (in phases)
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Support Needed
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During the 1st phase of
development SRTI envisaged to expand and sustained
C.B. activities and would be a 'Center of
Excellence' in the region. Based on our limited
resource we succeeded in fulfilling a section of
felt needs duly articulated by various civil
society organizations including Govt.
Institutions.
Since last couple of years due to various
interconnected factors the demand for C.B. has
increased by many folds. The existing structure
and human resource base of SRTI is felt inadequate
to met up those needs and demands. In addition to
that there has been a speedy growth of HIV
intervention program in the region which has
further fueled the need of C.B. related activities
both for community base interventions and State
supported activities primarily in countries like
Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Pakistan etc
in addition to India. At present the major section
of the trainers linked to SRTI support both the
activities namely the ongoing HIV Intervention
program as well as C. B. activities They had to
maintain quality work at the field level in
addition to supporting C.B. for participants both
in country and abroad. In the process either the
intervention or the quality of C.B. initiatives is
likely to get compromised. In addition to that our
infrastructure and allied facilities are unable to
cope up with the rising demand. In the recent past
a large number of participants from different
parts of the country have attended our program for
short term visit, attended specialized training
and workshop, received other CB supports in terms
of hand holding, mentoring etc. Participants
representing various categories of staff members
namely program manager, Peers, Community members,
in addition to Policy makers, Media personnel did
attend our C. B. initiatives. |
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Year wise break up of participants attended SRTI
run C.B. activities
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Member |
Peers |
Project
Manager |
Policy
Maker Media persons |
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2005 |
86 |
52 |
128 |
20 |
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2006 |
80 |
65 |
119 |
25 |
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2007 |
32 |
70 |
36 |
31 |
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2008 |
52 |
72 |
57 |
33 |
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Under these circumstances we are proposing
following development plan to make our effort
effective and sustainable: |
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We are planning to increase number of training
faculties including improvement of coordinating mechanism through, hiring
an experienced Training Coordinator. |
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To increase the human resource (Both community leader
and technical personnel) base for C. B. activities. We propose to hire
full time trainer[12] from among the community member. |
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To develop training modules, tools etc. as per
requirement in addition to support ongoing and additional C. B. activities
- We propose to hire 6 consultants representing different disciplines. |
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We intend to develop communication policies and
strategies for the Institute. |
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To develop a small but fully independent research team
to carry out program related operations research, which would help
identify gaps and challenges in the program, to identify and qualify
community level issues e.g. mobility of sex workers, discrimination by the
service provider, structural barrier to utilization o0f services, etc. |
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Annexures
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Annexure 1 : Visiting
Faculty/Technical advisor
A set of renowned individuals in the field of
HIV/AIDS have agreed to be visiting faculty for
the Center. They are: |
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Dr Debashis Mondal, Director of International
Foundation for Sexual Health, UK. |
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Mr Dallas Swendermen, Project Director, UCLA-NPI
Centre for Community Health. |
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Mr Toorjo Ghosh, Assistant Professor, University of
Pennsylvania, USA. |
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Mr Moni Nag, Professor, University of Columbia, USA. |
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Dr Sekhar Chakraborti, Deputy Director, NICED. |
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Dr Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus, Director, Center
for HIV Identification Prevention & Treatment Services (CHIPTS), USA. |
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Professor Pamela Gillies, Principal and
Vice-Chancellor, Glasgow University, UK. |
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Mr Sekhar Basu Mallik, Chief Financial Administrator,
West Bank Hospital. |
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Dr Swarup Sarkar, Inter Country Program Development
Advisor, South-East Asia & Pacific Inter country Team, UNAIDS. |
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Dr Debapriya Mallik; Director, Human development and
Research Institute (HDRI). |
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Dr Sunderaman, Freelance Consultant. |
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Annexure 2 : Courses
The Institute will offer various training and
capacity building programs to
organizations/individuals who are engaged in HIV
intervention program. The Research unit will carry
out both Quantitative and Qualitative research
specifically to help proper designing of the
program including identifying shortfalls in
developing strategies and implementing program and
also to identify various issues and challenges
with an objective to address those.
The activities of Capacity Building Unit as
envisaged
Following Regular Courses have been planned to be
implemented in the 1st phase of expansion.
Learning on Community mobilization
approaches.[3days] |
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How to form a community based organization. |
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Addressing issues and challenges in a community based
organization. |
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How to initiate and sustain community led HIV
intervention program. |
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How to identify structural barriers with an objective
to address. |
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Clinical courses on STI management
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These courses will be offered
to physicians, physician assistants, nurse and
other clinicians who diagnose, treat and manage
patients with sexually transmitted infections in
private and public settings. |
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Fundamentals Of STDS In Clinical Practice (5 Days)
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Existing staff members of DMSC
and distinguished specialists from the country
will work together as a team to help update
participants regarding informations, tools and
techniques required to provide quality STI
services.
Participants will learn: |
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Epidemiology, sexual history taking, diagnosis,
treatment and management of STDs (Syndromic Management), as well as other
modes of STD/HIV interactions. |
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Clinical issues related to STDs in infants and
children, adolescents, and pregnant women. |
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Laboratory methods, pharmacology and case studies. |
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Client-centered counseling, partner treatment etc. |
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Refresher Course On STDs (2 Day)
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Practicing clinicians will
learn epidemiology, sexual history taking,
diagnosis, treatment and management of
syndrome-based treatment for STDs. This course
will be presented following an interactive and
experience sharing mechanism.
Participants will receive skills-based training
focusing on the examination of the male and female
genital organs. Participants will engage in
experiential learning with expert clinicians
working in our demonstration sites. |
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Sexual Risk Assessment And Risk Reduction:
Effective Dialogue With Patients (2 Days)
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Skills-based workshop will be
designed to help clinicians gain experience in
conducting risk assessment and risk reduction
approaches with dealing their patients in
community settings. Participants would learn to: |
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Obtain a thorough and accurate sexual history. |
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Communicate with patients about their sexual risk. |
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Apply evidence-based behavioral approaches to STD/HIV
risk reduction counseling. |
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Orientation On STD For Non-Clinicians (2 Days)
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Designed for people working in
STD/HIV prevention and education who are not
medical doctors, this comprehensive course will
help participants to learn the basics of STDs,
including epidemiology, STD transmission dynamics,
STI symptoms and consequences of illnesses, all
from a health education perspective.
Participants will learn about: |
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Common STDs, sites of infection, symptoms and
consequences. |
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Local and national STD trends and statistics. |
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The connection between HIV and other STDs, including
how STDs may increase the chances of HIV transmission. |
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How to provide clear and simple risk-reduction
messages about STDs. |
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Behavioral Intervention Courses (5days)
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This course will be designed
to provide skills-based training to STD/HIV
prevention specialists, public health and family
planning staff members, outreach workers, health
educators and others involved in STD/HIV
prevention . Behavioral intervention courses will
use interactive, participatory learning methods to
help develop skills needed for designing,
implementing and evaluating effective behavioral programmers. |
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Applying Behavioural Theory To STD/HIV Prevention
(2 Days)
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This Course will provide an
introduction to behavioral science with an
emphasis on primary prevention and focuses on the
practical applications of behavior science based
applications in HIV intervention program. |
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Applying Structural And Environmental
Interventions To STD/HIV Prevention Programme (5
Days)
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Learn how to translate
structural and environmental interventions
strategies even in Behavioral issues,[ such as
those applied to smoking, drinking and injury
prevention], what could be useful to strengthen
STD/HIV prevention programmes. Participants will: |
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Learn the various aspects of Structural Interventions
approaches and strategies to address barriers in intervention. |
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Understand the impact of Community Led Structural
Interventions. |
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Learn how to improve effectiveness of HIV intervention
at different stages of development and implementation including the
community led approaches to structural intervention. |
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Addressing Institutional And Domestic Violence:
Instituting Assessment And Referral System (3
Days)
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Intended for providers working
directly in STD, HIV or related client-based
settings, this interactive course will examine the
relationship between STDs, HIV and domestic and
structural violence.
Participants will learn how to screen for
Incidence of violence and factors fueling violence
and provide appropriate referrals as part of a
useful public health intervention. The training
program will help providing appropriate skill to
develop strategy to address and to monitor impact
of violence reduction strategy in HIV prevention
program. Participants will: |
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Recognize the dynamics of violence including gender
base violence and its implication in HIV intervention program. |
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Describe how domestic violence adversely impact
interactions between sex-workers clients/fixed lover. |
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Identify essential components of domestic violence and
its influence in HIV prevention program. |
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Identify structural violence and its implication in
sexual health services. |
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Risk-Reduction Through Client-Centered Counseling
(2 Days)
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This training will enhance counseling
techniques, with an emphasis on assessing and
reducing risk for HIV and STIs.
Participants will: |
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Learn protocols of various counseling model and how to
adapt them to meet client needs. |
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Identify important factors that may influence client
behavior. |
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Address perceived barriers to behavior change and
develop a risk-reduction plan that corresponds to client identified risk
behavior. |
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Supporting Self-Disclosure of HIV Status (1 Day)
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Designed for staff working
with people living with HIV in both prevention and
care programmes, this interactive skills-based
course will explore the many issues surrounding
self-disclosure of HIV status over time.
Participants will: |
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Describe some of the complex contextual issues
surrounding self-disclosure of HIV status. |
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Explore benefits and concerns of serostatus disclosure
for clients and providers. |
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Incorporate risk reduction counseling regardless of
disclosure decision. |
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Training & Handholding On How To Handle Field
Level Issues And Challenges (10 Days)
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Share with staff who have
years of field experience in both urban and rural
community settings.To identify the common pitfalls
of field work, and learn how to keep oneself safe
and secure along with the community while
conducting work activities. Participants will
learn: |
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To identify potentially unsafe field situations. |
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One needs to be aware of when assessing an
environment. |
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To recognize behavioral characteristics of
individuals, mainly of the locality, who may pose a threat. |
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Techniques for building rapport with individuals,
which includes pimps, malkins, etc., in a field setting. |
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Techniques for building rapport with local community
clubs and its members. |
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Advocacy with local political leaders and police
officials. |
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Advocacy with Government officials who are in-charge
of the local offices. |
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Short Courses
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Pre Marital Counselling (12
Weeks)
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This training will enhance
counselling techniques, with an emphasis on
assessing and reducing premarital problems and
tensions.
Participants will: |
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Learn protocols of various counseling model and how to
adapt them to meet premarital needs. |
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Counseling On Sexual Problems (12 Weeks)
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This training will enhance counseling
techniques, with an emphasis on assessing and
reducing tensions due to various sexual problems.
Participants will: |
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Learn protocols of various counseling model and how to
adapt them to meet client needs in relation to various sexual requirements |
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Addressing Sex And Sexuality Related Issues And
Challenges In Day To Day Practices (4 Weeks)
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Learn how to assess the
importance of the issue of 'Sex and Sexuality' in
a NGO or C. B.O settings .The importance of
addressing the sexual issues of the targeted
populations in a given community settings.
Participants will learn : |
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Find out the importance of 'Sex and sexuality. |
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How to develop communication strategy on sex-
sexuality. |
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Values more and practices vis-à-vis its impact in HIV
prevention program. |
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Transgender And MSW - Intervention Strategies And
Approaches (3 Weeks)
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Share with staff about field
experience in community settings and the problems
faced by the Transgender and MSWs. Participants
will learn: |
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To identify issues and challenges in their life and
occupation. |
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Factors that propagate stigma and discrimination. |
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To recognize behavioral characteristics of
individuals, mainly of the Transgender and the MSWs and their risk
assessment. |
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Community-Level Intervention Trainings
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Programme Evaluation for
STD/HIV Prevention (2 Days)
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Share with staff about field
experience in community settings and the problems
faced by the Transgender and MSWs. Participants
will learn: |
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Understand uses of process monitoring, process
evaluation, outcome monitoring and outcome evaluation. |
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Select appropriate evaluation methods for measuring
programme outcomes. |
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Distinguish between qualitative and quantitative
evaluation methods. |
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Develop an evaluation plan for an STD/HIV prevention
intervention. |
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Social Mapping (2 Days)
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Develop skills to design and
evaluate prevention programme. Emphasis will be on
determining the effectiveness of current
programmes in addressing factors that influence
high-risk behaviors in targeted populations.
Participants will: |
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Understand uses of Social Mapping for carrying out an
intervention program. |
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Project Designing (2 Days)
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Develop skills to design a
project plan for prevention programme. Emphasis
will be on determining the effectiveness of
starting a project in addressing factors that
influence high-risk behaviors in targeted
populations. Participants will: |
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Understand uses of various techniques of planning a
project. |
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Community Led Advocacy Program (2 Days)
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DDevelop skills to advocate
with community key influencers for prevention
programme. Emphasis will be on determining the
effectiveness of an advocacy program for the
stakeholders in targeted populations. Participants
will: |
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Understand the importance of advocacy and the
appropriate method of doing it. |
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Promoting Self Regulatory Board SRB (2 Days)
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Develop skills to plan and
start Self Regulatory Board at each and every red
light zone: |
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Understand the importance of such a Self Regulatory
Board. |
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How to engage local policy makers and local government
in developing SRB. |
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Develop an effective strategy to run and manage a SRB. |
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Programme Support Courses
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Need Assessment And Survey
Design (2 Days)
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Learn how to conduct effective
community assessments and identify the STD/HIV
prevention needs of targeted populations in a
given community setting. Understand advantages and
disadvantages of various survey instruments, how
to measure different variables and formulate
appropriate questions. Participants will: |
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Learn how to conduct focus groups and key informant
interviews. |
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Design quantitative and qualitative questions for
survey tools to measure knowledge, attitudes and beliefs, intentions,
skills, and behaviors. |
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Become familiar with survey data collection,
tabulation and analysis. |
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How To Use Surveillance And Epidemiology Data In
Improving STD/HIV Intervention Programmes (2 Days)
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Learn how to access
surveillance and epidemiology data to inform
programmes and prioritize STD/HIV services.
Understand how to assess patterns and trends for
prioritizing intervention elements and strategies
in interventions. Participants will learn. |
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Find up-to-date HIV/STD and related data. |
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Interpret charts, tables and figures. |
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Understand data presentation and its pitfalls. |
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Become familiar with statistical terms and their uses
in public health. |
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Programme Management Courses
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Budgeting And Accounts
Maintenance (3 Days)
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Learn how to prepare budgets
depending on the needs of the targeted populations
in a given community setting. Understand Accounts
with the involvement of the Community members.
Participants will: |
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Learn how to prepare budgets for a NGO or C. B.O |
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Learn how to maintain Accounts in a NGO or C. B.O |
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Protecting Rights of Community (3 Days)
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Learn the laws and rights
applicable to a given community setting.
Participants will learn to: |
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The pros and cons of various laws and rights which are
creating barrier for community led interventions. |
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Annexure 3
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Team of Consultants &
Trainers |
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Technical Consultant |
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Training Director |
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Surviellance / Research / Mis Consultant &
Community Trainer |
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Std Management Consultant & Community Trainer |
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Advocacy Consultant & Community Trainer |
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Documentation & Media Consultant & Community
Trainer |
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Gender Consultant & Community Trainer |
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Community Mobilizer Consultant & Community Trainer |
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Individual Role and Qualifications: Technical
Consultant (Dr Smarajit Jana)
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Would provide support for 10
days/month in the year I and 6 days/month in the
year.
His role and responsibilities would be: |
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Envisioning SRTI and laying down process |
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Strategize Capacity Building and Operational Research |
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Organizational building |
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Overall supervision of developing and adaptation of
module / training tools |
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As a mentor to support and hand hold staff members of
SRTI |
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Training Director / Chief Knowledge Management
Officer
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His / her role and
responsibilities would be: |
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Administration |
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Team Building |
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Day to day supervision |
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Oversee financial system |
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Program Monitoring and Implementation |
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Training Consultant should have qualification of
Master of Social Sciences/ Public Health with
minimum of 7 years experiences of providing
training of HIV/AIDS/RCH programme staffs. |
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Administrative Assistant & Finance Officer
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His / her role and
responsibilities would be: |
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To provide support for all the programs. |
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Ensure compliance with the various funding agencies. |
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To maintain accounts. |
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To provide logistics as and when required. |
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Administrative Assistant should be an MBA graduate
with minimum of 3 years experience of managing a
training unit. |
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Surviellance / Research / Mis Consultant &
Trainer
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His / her role and
responsibilities would be: |
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Will develop work plan and activity |
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Strategize Capacity Building |
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Develop and adapt an appropriate curriculum |
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Tools and methodology for training |
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Managing training program |
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Design Operational Research |
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Monitor the whole training activities |
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MIS Consultant should be with qualification of
Diploma/Master in Public Health or Social
Sciences; with minimum of 7 years experience in M
& E of HIV/AIDS/RCH programmes with working
experience with NGO/C. B.O is essential. |
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STD Management Consultant & Trainer
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His / her role and
responsibilities would be: |
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Help develop strategies, tools etc. required to run
STI management and quality assurance services. |
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STD Management Consultant with a qualification of
MBBS and Diploma/Master in Dermatology/Venereal
Disease, with a minimum of 5 years experiences of
providing treatment of STI including management of
Opportunistic Infections for HIV/AIDS cases out of
which 3 years experience of working with targeted
intervention/NGO run program will be an added
advantage. |
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Advocacy Consultant & Trainer
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His / her role and
responsibilities would be to help develop policies
and strategies in consultation with communities
including development of appropriate tools and
methodologies: |
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How to carry out advocacy, networking, and
communication both intra and inter-organizational personnel or bodies in
policy and culturally sensitive way |
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Preparation of Press Release as and when required |
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The Consultant should be a professional in
communications and should have adequate knowledge
and experience in undertaking jobs in development
projects at national level. He/she must have a
minimum of 7 years experiences in the relevant
field. The candidate should be very much
culturally sensitive to deal with the various
issues of CSWs and must have 4 years experience of
working with the civil society organization. |
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Documentation & Media Consultant & Trainer
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His / her role and
responsibilities would be: |
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Provide leadership in documentation and dissemination
of the same, thus adding values to programme |
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Improvement of the 'Documentation Skills' of all type
including process documentation |
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Documentation Consultant should have a
qualification of Masters in Social
Sciences/Journalism and preferably 7 years
experiences in the related area in RCH/HIV/AIDS
programme or similar. Experience working with
media will be an added advantage. |
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Gender Consultant & Trainer
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His / her role and
responsibilities would be: |
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To develop course curriculum |
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Prepare training tools on gender related issues e.g.,
gender based violence |
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To oversee the implication of gender in program and
organizational matter |
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The Gender Expert should have a qualification of
Master of Social Science and training on gender
and sexuality with a minimum of 5 years
experiences of providing gender consultancy to
reproductive health implementing agencies out of
which 3 years experience of working for the
'Empowerment of Sex Workers' is essential. |
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Community Mobilizer Consultant & Trainer
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His / her role and
responsibilities would be |
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To develop appropriate policy and strategy documents
for CM. |
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To orient participants on basic principles of
community mobilization. |
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How to develop and sustain leadership in the process
of community mobilization. |
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The Community Mobilizer expert should have a
qualification of Master of Social Science with a
minimum of 5 years experiences of providing
leadership training out of which 3 years
experience of working for the C. B.O sector is
essential. |
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