http://www.search4dev.nlOnline library for Dutch development cooperationenwww.kit.nldpcmedewerkers-uba@uva.nldpcmedewerkers-uba@uva.nlFri, 17 May 2013 23:10:49 CEST/d/dprn/graphics/bbhead.gifhttp://www.search4dev.nlhttp://www.search4dev.nl/record/345466http://www.search4dev.nl/record/345466This is the annual report of VSO Netherlands for 2007/2008. VSO Netherlands is a member of the international development organization VSO, that works through volunteers to fight poverty in developing countries. VSO's work revolves around six development goals: disability, education, health, HIV and AIDS, participation and governance, and secure livelihoods. Within the VSO goal areas, VSO Netherlands pays special attention to people living with HIV and AIDS and to disabled people.VSO Nederlandhttp://www.search4dev.nl/record/345465http://www.search4dev.nl/record/345465This is the annual report of VSO Netherlands for 2008/2009. VSO Netherlands is a member of the international development organization VSO, that works through volunteers to fight poverty in developing countries. VSO's work revolves around six development goals: disability, education, health, HIV and AIDS, participation and governance, and secure livelihoods. Within the VSO goal areas, VSO Netherlands pays special attention to people living with HIV and AIDS and to disabled people.VSO Nederlandhttp://www.search4dev.nl/record/339294http://www.search4dev.nl/record/339294The SNV Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV), Zanzibar Association of Tourism Investors (ZATI) and Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO), with support from the Norwegian Embassy have conducted the Tourism Value Chain Analysis in Zanzibar, mapping the financial flows within the industry, and the values accruing to ‘the poor’. With more than 100 interviews and over 300 tourist exit surveys, followed by a thorough analysis, the study concluded with suggestions for interventions to increase the participation of ‘the poor’ in the industry. This report summarizes the main findings of the study.B. SteckK. Woodhttp://www.search4dev.nl/record/288495http://www.search4dev.nl/record/288495This is the annual report of VSO Netherlands for 2003/2004. VSO Netherlands is a member of the international development organization VSO, that works through volunteers to fight poverty in developing countries. VSO's work revolves around six development goals: disability, education, health, HIV and AIDS, participation and governance, and secure livelihoods. Within the VSO goal areas, VSO Netherlands pays special attention to people living with HIV and AIDS and to disabled people.VSO Nederlandhttp://www.search4dev.nl/record/288494http://www.search4dev.nl/record/288494This is the annual report of VSO Netherlands for 2005/2006. VSO Netherlands is a member of the international development organization VSO, that works through volunteers to fight poverty in developing countries. VSO's work revolves around six development goals: disability, education, health, HIV and AIDS, participation and governance, and secure livelihoods. Within the VSO goal areas, VSO Netherlands pays special attention to people living with HIV and AIDS and to disabled people.VSO Nederlandhttp://www.search4dev.nl/record/288492http://www.search4dev.nl/record/288492This is the annual report of VSO Netherlands for 2006/2007. VSO Netherlands is a member of the international development organization VSO, that works through volunteers to fight poverty in developing countries. VSO's work revolves around six development goals: disability, education, health, HIV and AIDS, participation and governance, and secure livelihoods. Within the VSO goal areas, VSO Netherlands pays special attention to people living with HIV and AIDS and to disabled people.VSO Nederlandhttp://www.search4dev.nl/record/288490http://www.search4dev.nl/record/288490This publication explains how VSO volunteers support partners and colleagues in mainstreaming HIV into their development work. The emphasis is on facilitation and sustainability rather than doing, taking over and dependency. The VSO volunteers in these examples accomplish this by helping partners identify resources, whether funding or training opportunities. They work together to understand the ways that HIV has an impact on the areas of their work and impedes social development, the cycles of depravation causing vulnerability to HIV, and HIV making poverty worse. Special attention is paid to the role of stigma and fear of discrimination as barriers to effective intervention and care of people living with HIV. One of the lessons learned is that integrated HIV/AIDS responses should plan beyond the goal of increasing awareness to more practical, people- or community-centred solutions.M. WilkinsD. Vasanihttp://www.search4dev.nl/record/288485http://www.search4dev.nl/record/288485The 2007 VSO-RAISA Regional Conference was held in Pretoria, South Africa. It brought together stakeholders from different sectors to create a forum for discussing innovative solutions to emerging issues affecting caregivers in community based organizations. Objectives included focusing on the challenges of care to women and children, identifying good HBC (home-based care) practices, discussing policy and legal frameworks for HBC, raising awareness of caregivers’ needs, exploring how to engage men in HBC, and establishing networks for lobbying and advocacy. The purpose of the RAISA initiative is to support existing efforts in Southern Africa to respond to the HIV & AIDS pandemic, by strengthening the capacity of civil society and government to develop and work with partners in the implementation of a sustainable and effective multi-sectoral response to HIV & AIDS. The initiative works primarily (although not exclusively) on issues of prevention, treatment, care and support, and mitigating the socioeconomic impacts of HIV & AIDS. The initiative has a particular focus on people living with HIV, orphans and other children made vulnerable by AIDS, women and girls and youth.R. HamiltonS. Porterhttp://www.search4dev.nl/record/288481http://www.search4dev.nl/record/288481A conference on men, HIV & AIDS was organized in Pretoria by the Regional AIDS Initiative of Southern Africa (RAISA) of Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) between 11-13 February 2003. Seventy-one participants, mostly from Southern African countries with a few from East and West Africa, examined how to engage men in the response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The conference was structured around 10 parallel streams: Enlisting men as people living with HIV/AIDS; Men in prevention and advocacy; Marketing; Home based care; Man to man transmission; Male reproductive health; Boy child and construction of masculinity; Boy child and peer pressure; Men and cultural beliefs; Stigma and Violence. A description of the main threads of analysis follows, weaving patterns of how men in Southern Africa relate to HIV/AIDS. A key issue is that deeply held notions of masculinity lead to high-risk behaviour for HIV infection among men and women. Research and surveys across the region show that men are socialized into a notion of masculinity as sexual prowess, risk taking behaviour and male dominance and superiority over women.M. Patonhttp://www.search4dev.nl/record/288480http://www.search4dev.nl/record/288480A conference on food and security in a world of HIV & AIDS was organized in Pretoria by the Regional AIDS Initiative of Southern Africa (RAISA) of Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) between 2-4 November 2006. The conference provided a platform for discussing improved linkages between food security analysis and HIV & AIDS work in southern Africa. It was recommended to: strengthen the capacity of families; mobilize, support and advocate for community initiatives; ensure access to essential services for vulnerable people; aim to keep mothers alive; ensure that governments protect the most vulnerable; teach about food in schools; and advocate for food security and fair trade in international debates and forums. From a rights perspective it is important to respond with policies and programmes which address labour scarcity; promote agricultural diversity; mainstream HIV & AIDS in agricultural-extension programmes; extend micro-finance schemes; advocate for food rights; and to hold governments accountable. It was also recommended that programmes on food, nutrition, health, the environment, livelihoods and education should integrate with HIV & AIDS programmes for sustainability, effective community empowerment, and to maximize the use of limited resources.P. BrouardT. Langford