Capacity Development
We work with development projects, governments and non-government organisations to build the capacity HIV and mainstream workforce to deliver effective HIV prevention and care. Example of this work include:
Working with Australia’s National Association of People Living with HIV (NAPWA) and Igat Hope (the Papua New Guinea national PLHIV organisation) to add people with HIV into clinical teams as HIV Health Support Officers in PNG: more
Providing organisational development assistance to emerging civil society groups in Indonesia (including SW, MSM and TG groups): more
Development and delivery of APMG’s course on Managing IDU HIV Programs, delivered in Kazakhstan, Thailand, Indonesia and Turkey: more
Providing regional coordination for HIV Treatments Literacy groups across Asia and the Pacific through the International Treatments Preparedness Coalition (ITPC): ITPC Website
Developing a manual on Assessing Capacity and Providing Technical Assistance for Harm Reduction Programs in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia: manual
Providing organisational development assistance to civil society organisations in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan: more
Developing a paper on latest developments in MARPs outreach: (available soon)
Assistance to the All-Ukraine Network of PLHA to implement their grant as a Global Fund Principal Recipient: more
Training government, UN and NGO managers from Middle East and North African countries in Managing HIV programs among MSM and Transgender People: more
Assisting International HIV/AIDS Alliance build capacity of community-based organisations in China by developing their relationships with government entities; and build capacity of methadone clinics in China to retain IDUs in treatment: more
Capacity building for the Russian Harm Reduction Network/ESVERO in its role as a GF Principal Recipient: more
Developing key global guidance documents on managing needle-syringe programs (WHO), training outreach workers (WHO), reaching high coverage with harm reduction programs in developing/ transitional countries (UNAIDS), advocacy for harm reduction; best practices in harm reduction in Russia (World Bank), Toolkit on Governance of Opioid Agonist Medication Treatment for the Asia region (AusAID):
- Starting and managing needle-syringe programs
- High Coverage Sites: HIV Prevention among Injecting Drug Users in Transitional and Developing Countries. Case Studies
- Advocacy Guide: HIV/AIDS Prevention for Injecting Drug Users
- Toolkit on governance of opioid agonist medication treatment: methadone and buprenorphine
Assisting in developing the WHO/UNAIDS/UNODC Technical Guide for countries to set targets for universal access to HIV prevention, treatment and care for injecting drug users: link
Developing a manual on working with drug injecting sex workers: Where sex work, drug injecting and HIV overlap: practical issues for reducing vulnerability, risk and harm: more
Facilitation of workshops for the development of a voluntary counselling and testing scale-up plan in southern India (FHI)
Training for people living with HIV in running self-help groups in Ukraine
Development of APMG’s Managing Sex Worker HIV Programs training course
Assessing training needs and developing a five-year Training Plan for Human Resource Development for the Central Asia AIDS Control Project
Developing WHO’s training curriculum for national AIDS Program Managers in South-East Asia and for district health officers in Africa

