The Huairou Commission and GROOTS International AIDS Campaign is seeking a lively and outgoing intern/part time staff support to work on our Campaign and the main initiative- the Home-Based Care Alliance.

The Huairou Commission AIDS Campaign

The Huairou Commission AIDS Campaign serves as a platform for grassroots organizations responding to HIV/AIDS on the ground to link globally for peer exchange, joint activities and advocacy. We have built a platform that has positioned grassroots women as agenda-setters, monitors and evaluators of the resources entering their communities earmarked for fighting HIV and promoting community development. Our AIDS Campaign prioritizes supporting, documenting and exchanging strategies and precedents in which home-based caregivers have been able to build long-term structures in their community for on-going engagement with local authorities, formal health systems and NGOs. The Huairou Commission is a facilitating member of the new Caregivers Action Network.

The Home-Based Care Alliance

The Home-Based Care Alliance initiative brings caregivers together to effectively and collectively advocate for transparency and accountability in HIV/AIDS programming and resource-allocation. The overall goal of the Home-Based Care Alliance is to draw recognition to and valorize grassroots women's work. As it stands, those who are providing the major response to AIDS are sacrificing their sparse income and their energy in service to their communities. They have no voice in policy circles; most receive no outside funding. This invisibility of women's work is symptomatic of gender and class marginalization and impoverishment.

With support from partner NGOs and networks, caregivers have organized in order to link to health services and anti-retroviral treatment, lead governance responses, such as monitoring resources coming into communities in response to AIDS, and in many places have become involved in issues surrounding women's land and inheritance rights. Home-based caregivers are seeking ways to create a sustainable response to AIDS in their communities.
Objectives of Home Based Care Alliance

• Build the capacity of home-based caregivers to share experiences and strategies through peer learning, and build a collective voice and collective strategies for supporting community care
• Establish home-based caregivers as monitors and evaluators of resources and services for AIDS responses
• Surface the contributions of grassroots communities, particularly women home-based caregivers, in mitigating and managing the pandemic and leading coping strategies
• Provide policy-makers access to relevant, current data and community priorities related to HIV and AIDS through the work of home-based caregivers 
• Claim leadership spaces for grassroots women, especially in the constituency-level AIDS and other development committees that governments mandate to make decisions on HIV/AIDS-related community priorities 
• Reduce corruption and duplication of programs by coordinating HIV/AIDS intervention through the leadership of home-based caregivers

Responsibilities and Opportunities of AIDS Campaign Senior Intern will include

Support the Campaign staff to:

• Track consultative process with network members to prepare for Sub-Regional Academies and International AIDS Conference including convening dialogue and planning processes
• Research national health and AIDS related policies
• Organize events such as ICASA and Sub-regional Academies including flights, accommodations, visas etc.
• Contribute to general administrative tasks as needed
• Maintain regular communication with core leaders and communicate with partners
• Fundraise and grant management 
• Develop materials for publicity and advocacy.

Required skills/competencies

• General knowledge of and interest in international development, public health initiatives, women's unpaid care work, Sub-Saharan Africa and the global AIDS response
• Highly organized, works accurately with attention to detail
• Collaborative but able to work independently
• Ability to work and communicate effectively with people from diverse backgrounds
• Strong communications skills (written and oral, formal and informal) in English 
• Passion for organizing, social justice, and grassroots-driven, bottom-up processes.

Minimum commitment: 15/20 hrs a week through to mid-May.

To Apply
Please send a resume and cover letter highlighting your experiences, interests and enthusiasm to:
Becca Asaki