Topics:

1. HIV/AIDS Workplace Tools & Guides

2. Tools for National Business Coalitions against HIV/AIDS

3. Industry-Specific Tools (Transport, ICT, Mining, SMEs and informal sector)

4. Access to Funding Resources

5. Civil Society Tools

6. Multisector Approaches

7. Other

1. HIV/AIDS Workplace Tools & Guides

CDC Business Responds to AIDS/Labor Responds to AIDS (BRTA-LRTA)

• HIV/AIDS Workplace Manager's Kit and User's Guide: The Manager's Kit includes all the resources businesses need to build comprehensive HIV/AIDS workplace programs. The kit, which is available in English and Spanish, reviews the five components of the BRTA/LRTA programs and enables managers to: develop HIV/AIDS policies for their workplaces; train managers to conduct HIV/AIDS workshops; educate staff/workers about basic facts about HIV/AIDS and its effect on the workplace; educate staff/workers' families; and promote community service and volunteerism.

Futures Group/Constella

• Futures Group AIM-B: AIDS Impact Model for Business: AIM-B is an economic and demographic model designed to help managers analyze how HIV/AIDS is affecting their businesses and project how it will affect them in the future. This simplified on-line version of AIM-B estimates the main direct costs of HIV/AIDS in health, recruitment, and benefit costs.
  
• Futures Group Workplace Policy Builder (WPB) is software designed to assist companies in developing their own HIV/AIDS policies through a participatory process. WPB guides the user through the process of developing a policy, step by step.

Family Health International (FHI)

• FHI Workplace HIV/AIDS Programs: An Action Guide for Managers (en français): The workplace action guide from FHI's IMPACT Project is a practical, hands-on "how-to" guide, advising managers on how to create workplace programs in the developing world - and how not to. These lessons are illustrated with candid case studies of employers' experiences with HIV in the workplace.

GTZ

• GTZ ACCA Toolbox was developed to support ACCA (AIDS Control in Companies in Africa) Initiatives in Namibia, Tanzania, Zambia and Kenya. The toolbox provides companies with information planning and implementing a workplace programme in a company as well as establish the measures that will allow the programme to flourish as a sustainable organisational structure. The ACCA toolbox contains a wealth of current documents, templates, guidelines and other tips to assist the company in managing the lifecycle of a workplace programme.

International Finance Corporation (IFC)

• IFC Good Practice Note on HIV/AIDS in the Workplace outlines the costs of HIV/AIDS to businesses and gives companies concrete advice on designing and implementing workplace programs.

International Labour Organization (ILO)

• ILO Code of Practice on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work (en français) The Code of Practice is the framework for action related to the workplace. It contains key principles for policy development and practical guidelines for programmes at enterprise, community and national levels.
  
• ILO Implementation Manual for the ILO Code of Practice on HIV/AIDS and the world of work (en français): An education and training manual designed to help ILO partners understand the issues and apply the ILO Code
  of Practice on HIV/AIDS and the world of work, which was adopted in May 2001.
  
• ILO HIV/AIDS Behaviour Change Communication: A Toolkit for the Workplace
  
• ILO-AIDS Publications (en français)

2. Business Coalitions against HIV/AIDS

• “HIV/AIDS Business Coalitions: Guidelines for Building Business Coalitions against HIV/AIDS,” a toolkit published in English and in French by the World Bank Group in collaboration with the World Economic Forum, UNAIDS and CCA, provides practical, operational, timely and relevant guidance to companies and/or leaders in the private sector who want to combine forces in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
  
• "The State of Business Coalitions in Sub-Saharan Africa" details efforts in 27 countries to support businesses in addressing HIV/AIDS. The study provides guidance to nascent coalitions; shares best practices, benefits, and achievements of developed coalitions; and highlights key challenges facing these organizations.

3. Industry-Specific Tools

SMEs and Informal Sector

• A Handbook on HIV/AIDS for Small Business Associations and Service Providers
  Responds to the needs and constraints of small and micro enterprises, formal or informal, by providing practical guidance for those who regulate, advise and support them.
• Know More about HIV/AIDS: A Toolkit for Workers in the Informal Economy Provides guidance for trade associations and organizations with informal sector members.

Transport Sector

• HIV/AIDS: Transport Workers Take Action An ITF Resource Book for Trade Unionists in the Transport Sector

• Highway for Hope This ITF film focuses on the principal transport corridor through East Africa, running through Malawi and into Southern Africa. The film highlights the risk of truck drivers on the highway from Uganda to Kenya and demonstrates how ITF campaigns are helping to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS.

ICT Sector

• The Energy Solutions Toolkit for ICT Projects is designed to help ICT program managers, decision-makers and entrepreneurs select the most cost-effective mix of ICT and energy systems for projects in off-grid and poorly electrified areas.

Mining Sector

• The IFC "HIV/AIDS Guide for the Mining Sector" offers a compendium of resources including tools, information and strategies that will help mining companies and others within the mining communities to implement HIV/AIDS programs in the workplace.

4. Access to Funding Resources

• The World Bank Private Sector MAP Brochure
• The World Bank Private Sector Manual (English, French and Portuguese)

5. Civil Society Resources

• Alertnet.org Member Directory
• A Clinical Guide to Supportive and Palliative Care for HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Directory of Development Organizations
• NEW RESOURCE! The UNAIDS Directory of Regional HIV Resource Institutions makes it easier to identify and contact the appropriate organisations for specific HIV-related activities.

6.Multisector Approaches

• APDIME Toolkit: Resources for HIV/AIDS Program Managers, developed by the The Synergy Project, is a resource to support program designers and managers in HIV/AIDS prevention, care and support programming in the developing world.
  
• Delivering Antiretroviral Therapy in Resource-Constrained Settings: Lessons from Ghana, Kenya and Rwanda presents many valuable lessons that can guide development and expansion of ART services in Africa and other regions
  
• FHI/UNAIDS Best Practices in HIV/AIDS Prevention Collection includes 20 state-of-the-art "best practices" which represent some of the most innovative, effective and comprehensive approaches to HIV prevention that have been implemented in non-industrialized countries to date. These case studies can be used by individuals, communities, municipalities, non-governmental organizations, businesses and governments.
  
• The InfoPositive Learning System: Teach everyone in your organization about HIV, AIDS, ARVs, STIs & TB.
  
• Turning Bureaucrats into Warriors: Preparing and Implementing Multi-Sector HIV/AIDS Programs in Africa - A Generic Operations Manual provides guidelines on developing and implmenting multi-sector HIV/AIDS programs from which countries and implementing agencies can learn and adapt for their own use. French version
  
• World Bank Toolkits, Key Readings and Related Links – Local Governance: This site is a selection of interesting toolkits, papers and websites that can be useful for contextualising local government responses to HIV/AIDS.

7. Other

• Local Governance and HIV/AIDS: A Toolkit for Impact Assessment and Strategic Planning The Local Governance HIV/AIDS Toolkit was developed to support any Local Authority (LA) to undertake two important and inter-linked processes; namely how to conduct an HIV/AIDS impact assessment and then utilise the information to plan an informed, well-grounded strategic response to the epidemic.

• Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children Support Toolkit. This toolkit, developed by Family Health International and the HIV/AIDS International Alliance Project, is a collection of information, tools and guidance on supporting orphans and other vulnerable children living in a world with HIV/AIDS.
  
• Advocacy Resource Book for HIV and AIDS in Zambia. In August 2005, The Futures Group published an advocacy resource book to support individuals, community groups, people living with HIV and AIDS, and other local and national organizations in Zambia in their efforts to positively influence the political environment and institutions in which HIV and AIDS initiatives and programs take place.

For a more complete list of existing guides and toolkits, please visit HealthAfrica.org and search the CCA/AllAfrica Global Media database.