Community Systems Strengthening - Civil Society Consultation

During February and March 2010, the Alliance and the International Council of AIDS Services Organizations (ICASO) conducted an online consultation together with country-level key informant interviews to solicit views from civil society on the draft framework that was developed to outline community systems strengthening (CSS for short).

The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has developed the CSS Framework in collaboration with other stakeholders to make it clearer the range of community strengthening activities the Global Fund is mandated to support.
The specific aims of the civil society online and country-level key informant consultation were to:

• Solicit maximum input and feedback from civil society on the content, substance and usefulness of the CSS framework
• Enable dialogue and encourage positive contribution towards improving the framework to ensure it meets the requirements of civil society organizations, key populations and networks most affected by HIV, TB and Malaria
  

The findings of this consultation were fed into a two-day face-to-face Civil Society consultation meeting held in March 2010 where all the inputs received from civil society were collated and fed into the CSS framework process.  

You can read the results of the online and key informant consultations here.

You can read the two day face to face consultation workshop report here.

You can access the four presentations from the workshop here:

• Framework to support Community Systems Strengthening
• Civil society online and key informant consultation
• CSS Framework
• Monitoring and evaluation of community systems strengthening

1. READ THE DRAFT CSS FRAMEWORK

You can read the latest version here, available in English only. The previous version is also available in French, Spanish and Russian.

Don’t have time to read the full version? We’ve read it for you – and condensed the vital information.

Read the ‘We’ve read it for you’ summary document, in English, French, Spanish or Russian. (Please note, the summary documents are based on the previous version of the framework so don't take into account recent amendments.)

2. JOIN THE CSS FORUM. Join the online forum which will be used to send out regular updates on the CSS framework and related information, to join send an email to Join-cssframeworkconsult@eforums.healthdev.org

For further information email Taline Haytayan at the Alliance.