Project Database
EFAIDS Programme
| Country: | Botswana |
| Start Date: | 2006-06-01 |
| Deadline: | 2010-12-31 |
| Host organisations: |
Botswana Teachers' Union
(BTU)
|
| Co-operating organisations: |
Education International
(EI)
World Health Organisation (WHO) Education Development Center (EDC) |
| Related Links: | |
| Grouping: | EI Education For All-HIV/AIDS Prevention (EFAIDS) Programme |
Project Summary:
The Botswana Teachers’ Union emphasised the theme of Greater Involvement of People Living with HIV and AIDS (GIPA) in their activities during 2008. Workshops using the EFAIDS training manual on GIPA were held in eight regions of the country. From these workshops resulted in some 240 teachers completing training on GIPA. An additional 37 school HIV coordinators also received GIPA training.
BTU is increasingly seen as a leader in interventions on education for HIV prevention, and national organisations use it as a yardstick for their own work and recognise it as an example of good practice. BTU World AIDS Day celebrations were well attended, and government ministers participated. Three BTU EFAIDS coordinators benefitted from capacity-building training organised by the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions under ILO’s SHARE (Strategic HIV/AIDS responses by enterprises) Programme.
Together with local NGOs, UNESCO and UNICEF, the BTU worked with parents to overcome obstacles to school attendance. This cooperation with UNESCO resulted in the BTU EFAIDS coordinator attending the Southern African countries summit in South Africa in September 2008 at the invitation of UNESCO, where achievement of Education for All was discussed. Together with the EFAIDS coordinators from ZIMTA and LAT the BTU EFAIDS coordinator publicised the work of the EFAIDS Programme. The positive response to the work carried out under the EFAIDS Programme led to a resolution that future meetings should include representation from teacher unions. Subsequently the BTU EFAIDS Programme, in partnership with the UNESCO Harare office conducted a 2 day workshop to foster advocacy skills among Teachers Living with HIV. The workshop was well received and led to the establishment of a network for TLWH which will operate under the BTU umbrella.
In Botswana, just over one fifth of the government budget is reserved for education, but only a small proportion of spending on education is allocated to primary level. The national prevalence of HIV is high, second only to Swaziland, with one quarter of adults aged 15-49 living with the disease.
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