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>>	Major National programmes
PEPFAR Global Fund Uganda AIDS Control Project (UACP) The YEAH Campaign AIDS in Emergency Settings(NACAES) The AIDS Competence Programme(ACP) Uganda Think Tank on AIDS(UTTA)

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>>>> Major National HIV/AIDS Programmes - The AIDS Competence Programme(ACP)

The Ugandan AIDS Competence Process

Combining learning from local responses to HIV/AIDS with the knowledge management expertise and the experience of human capacity development, the AIDS Competence Process (ACP) has been designed for various groups and organisations to build on their existing strengths to respond. Lessons, information, principles and strategic orientations can influence HIV/AIDS interventions at any point, provided they are action-oriented.

The ACP was adopted by Uganda AIDS Commission and partners with consensus on its concepts , to strengthen explicit learning from local responses both between partners at the same levels, as well as to learn from grassroots experience based on its conviction that groups have the ability to respond and can lead the response themselves.

Rounded Rectangle: AIDS Competence means that we, as people in families and organizations and in policy making, acknowledge the reality of HIV and AIDS, act from strength to build our capacity to respond, reduce vulnerability and risks, learn and share with others and live out our full potential.

The AIDS Competence assessment allows groups to self-assess their level of performance in ten practices for AIDS Competence , and then set targets for the improvement of specific practices. Access to comprehensive services for prevention and care are among the practices assessed. By comparing their levels of performance with others', they identify those with whom they might exchange insights from experience. By capturing experience and offering advice this shared knowledge can be reused by others. The AIDS Competence Assessment has so far been used in Uganda by UAC, UNASO, NAFOPHANU, AMICAALL, Concern Worldwide, IRCU and the SCEs for Line Ministries and Media, Culture and Arts. Furthermore, ACP was introduced to the district AIDS Focal Persons of the UACP districts and during the local action planning for the GLIA Refugee component.

Below are links to some tools and reports from the ACP processes in the country.

AIDS competence satellite report

AIDS competence tool UNASO

AIDS Competence Assessment NSF

AIDS assessment tool-luganda version

Concern experiences with self assessment tool

Flyer AIDS Competence NAC

Report AIDS Competence Workshop 6 and 7 July 2005 - version 2

National Forum of People Living with HIV experiences

Progress report ACP October 2005

Project Agree KM Uganda, 12 may

AMICAALL Experience with the AIDS Competence Tool

You can join the international Constellation for AIDS Competence through www.aidscompetence.org or join knowledge sharing on Ugandan experiences in the AIDS response by sending a blank e-mail to join-partnersuganda@eforums.healthdev.org.