HIV/AIDS Consultants

HIV/AIDS PROGRAMME CONSULTANTS [3]
Contract Duration: ranging between 20-35 days
Fees are based on standard consultancy fees
Start date: September 1, 2005

CALL FOR CONSULTANCY WORK
HelpAge International is a global network of organisations, working with and for disadvantaged older people worldwide to achieve a lasting improvement in the quality of their lives. We link direct services work with policy, advocacy and campaigning work at national and international levels.HelpAge International (HAI) is a global network of not for profit organisations working with and for disadvantaged older people worldwide for a lasting improvement in the quality of their lives. Over the last 20 years, HAI’s network of organisations has been working with older people in poor communities in over 70 countries of the world.

Since 1992, HIV/AIDS has become a core element of HelpAge InternationalHAI’s work., especially with partner organisations in Africa and Asia. HAI’s focus is to support the crucial role older women and men are playing in the survival of their families and communities. HelpAge International’s interventions are community-based and take an intergenerational approach, and are underpinned by research, advocacy and capacity building with older people. HelpAge International’s approaches are participatory, community bBased and intergenerational. The approaches are underpinned by research, advocacy and capacity building with older people and in partnership with a range of development and academic organizations. HAI isWe are currently leading HIV/AIDS projects in 13 countries in Africa and Asia working with older people as agents of change, supporting their empowerment, promoting their rights and equal access to services and development opportunities,. HAI undertakes all the mentioned interventions with the key objective of ending age based discrimination and achieving poverty reduction.

HAI’s global aim is to ensure that global responses to HIV/AIDS include older people as care-givers and address the varying roles of older people in families and communities affected by HIV/AIDS through the implementation of programmes which address discrimination and the exclusion of older people in care and support, prevention, treatment and education.

With support from the United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), HelpAge InternationalHAI has launched a one year programme to increase the visibility of and improving support to older women carers of people living with HIV/AIDS, orphans and vulnerable children. HelpAge International’s global aim is to ensure that global responses to HIV/AIDS include older people, by documenting good practice and drawing a guide for partners and other implenting agencies. The programme has the following major expected results that HAI intends to undertake by commissioning expereinced consultants:
·A report mapping key stakeholders, existing care standards and guidelines in home and community based care, to analyse their applicability to the needs, rights and roles of older women carers and draw together a guide for HAI project partners and other agencies working in this area.

·Documenting good practice of support to older women carers of PLWAs and orphaned and vulnerable children within HAI programme intervetions, approaches and expériences in selected countries of Africa and Asia.

·Analysis of existing data sets and research for information on caregivers of PLWAs and orphaned and vulnerable children.

The findings of these consultancies are expected to be disseminated at various regional and international fora including ICASA conference in December, the GNP+ and Home and Community Care Conference in March 2006 and the Africa partners meeting in November 2005. In addition the findings will form the basis for the development of an advocacy strategy on older carers within the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS.

HelpAge InternationalHAI is inviting experieeinced consultants with knowledge and expereincea strong background on HIV/AIDS within an international development context preferably gained in Africa and who have knowledge in participatory approaches to work with communities, to submit their CVs and evidence of previous research experience . The proposal need to be submitted before 15th of August 2005.

Please send your enquiry for detailed TORs to :For more details of these consultancies and details of the major expected results, please request to see the full Terms of Reference, available from:

Amleset Tewodros
Regional Pprogframme Manager
HelpAge International,
Africa Regional Development Centre
PO Box 14888, 00800
Nairobi, Kenya
Email : [email protected], [email protected]
Website : www.helpage.org