Promoting the Code of Good Practice for NGOs Responding to HIV/AIDS at ICAAP 2005

23 June 2005

The Alliance has co-hosted an event to promote the Code of Good Practice for NGOs Responding to HIV/AIDS at the Seventh International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific.

"The Code is a crucial resource for global efforts to scale up the response to HIV/AIDS and we are delighted to be promoting the Code at the International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific," said Alliance Executive Director Dr. Alvaro Bermejo.

"In recent years there has been growing momentum to address the global HIV/AIDS crisis with a considerable increase in the number and range of NGOs involved in responding to the challenges presented by HIV/AIDS. Together with significant changes in the global funding environment, this growth in action on AIDS is welcome but it also poses new challenges."

The Code of Practice for NGOs Responding to HIV/AIDS was developed to help address these new challenges by:

  • outlining and building wider commitment to principles and practices, informed by evidence, that underscore successful NGO responses to HIV/AIDS
  • assisting 'Supporting NGOs' to improve the quality and cohesiveness of our work and our accountability to our partners and beneficiary communities
  • fostering greater collaboration between the variety of 'Supporting NGOs' now actively engaged in responding to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and
  • renewing the 'voice' of NGOs responding to HIV/AIDS by enabling us to commit to a shared vision of good practice in our programming and advocacy.

"It’s a critically important document that reflects international best practice on a wide range of organizational and programming principles" concluded Dr Bermejo.

The workshop at ICAAP provided an overview of the Code, examples of how it is being used globally and in Asia and what more can be done to promote in the region, including how organisations can sign up to it.

The workshop was chaired by the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific and Alliance Trustee, Dr Nafis Sadik. It was organised by the Alliance in association with the International Council of AIDS Service Organizations and IPPF.

You can download an pdf with details of the event.

For more information contact Joseph O’Reilly