COMMUNITY-FOCUSED RESULTS
Conducting context analyses for advocacy
“ In Cambodia, Asia Catalyst is helping
us build the capacity of our members of
women living with HIV to understand
human rights, gender-based violence,
and HIV-transmission modes. We are
working to identify what issues women
living with HIV face in the community,
and how to solve them. It is important to
build their knowledge with Asia Catalyst’s
training. Because, sometimes stigma and
discrimination happens because people do
not understand how HIV can be spread,
and what human rights all people-even
those with HIV-share.
One of the issues that we face are the
number of competing priorities in our
country. If a community is worried about
having enough food to eat, how can we
most effectively get them to care about the
discrimination and violence faced by the
women living with HIV among them? Asia
Catalyst’s context analysis exercise
taught us how to think critically and
strategically about these realities. ”
Tailored Coaching participants in
Beijing. Asia Catalyst photo, 2015.
CBO leaders from Cambodia, including
participants from The Cambodia
Community of Women, pose outside of
an Asia Catalyst workshop in Thailand.
Asia Catalyst photo, 2015.
- The Cambodia Community of Women
Living with HIV
Regional Rights Training participants, 2015
“We really like Asia Catalyst’s
“Asia Catalyst’s CBO Catalyst workshop
training methodology
and curriculum. We have
participated in different
trainings, but most of the time
we don’t have any chance to
ask questions. . . but for Asia
Catalyst’s coaching, we just
stopped and discussed any
questions that arose.”
series has been one of the most
valuable trainings I’ve had. I realized
the importance of advocacy and, for the
first time, our organization decided to
do advocacy—previously we only did
service provision.
We can now use Asia Catalyst’s subgrant to implement advocacy activities.
Since participating in the training, I have
also been promoting democratic values
in our organization.”
- Baishui Zhu Can, a Chinese
CBO, on Asia Catalyst’s Tailored
Coaching program
- Mao Mao Yu, Anhui Hefei Youth Health
Service Center
CBO Catalyst participant, 2015
Activists complete a strategic planning
exercise during a Tailored Coaching
workshop in Hangzhou, China. Asia Catalyst
photo, 2015.
Asia Catalyst photo, 2015.
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