How we work
To make a real difference, the Alliance focuses on integrated responses to HIV that combine preventing HIV infection, facilitating access to treatment, care and support, and lessening the impact of AIDS. We emphasise the importance of working with people who are most likely to affect or be affected by the spread of HIV. These are often people from marginalised groups who are the most vulnerable and the hardest to reach.
Alliance staff and consultants provide technical support, often alongside financial support, to in-country intermediary organisations, which the Alliance calls 'linking organisations'. They in their turn provide financial and/or technical support to non-governmental and community-based organisations in their countries. This means that the Alliance builds local skills and local institutions, rather than directly planning, managing and implementing programmes.
We have learned that the most successful responses to HIV and other development challenges are built upon local leadership, commitment and responsibility, and are supported by knowledge, learning and resources from elsewhere. With our support, local non-governmental and community-based organisations are particularly well placed to facilitate community responses, as well as to bridge effectively the needs and capacities of poor people and poor communities with broader health and development efforts.
