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Overview
The Ethiopian Business Coalition Against HIV/AIDS (EBCA)
Abeje Tesfaye (MA)Programme Manger
Presentation Outline
Basic Fact on AIDS Impact of AIDS on Business What EBCA Do EBCA Values and Strategies EBCA Partners EBCA Services and Success Challenges and Lesson Learned Way Forward
Basic Facts Ethiopian Summery
Number of people living with the virus –1.3 million People newly infected with HIV in 2005/6 – 128,922 HIV prevalence in Urban – 10.5% in Rural 1.94%
Addis Ababa Summery Number of people living with the virus – 207, 270 People infected with HIV in 2005/6 – 20,940 HIV prevalence – 11.72% No of AIDS orphans – 109,130
Service users in Addis Ababa VCT users – 222,645 in 158 sites, PMTCT users – 27,564 in 35 sites ART users – 14,474 in 42 sites
Impact of AIDS on Business
HIV/AIDS and Workplace in Ethiopia
Over 1.3 million Ethiopians between the age 15-64 years in the labour force were estimated to live with HIV/AIDS in 2003 (ILO Esti. )
The ILO estimates suggest that in Ethiopia, the economy lost over US 234 million (7%) annually from 1992-2002 because of labour loss
Workplace provides the key venue for initiating effective programmes of prevention and care related to HIV/AIDS and protect the skills and experiences losses due to HIV/AIDS.
What EBCA Do
• EBCA come in to being when local business leaders came together in November 2004.
• 10 of the most powerful local businesses associations signed MOUs with the EBCA.
• Goal: Protect the business community from the threat of HIV/AIDS in collaboration with partners at all levels.
• Roles: To provide community leadership, Serve members, Serve businesspeople and vulnerable groups in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
EBCA Values
Holistic and comprehensive approach; United approach, where businesspeople at all
levels come together; Based on shared knowledge, expertise and
best practice; Businesspeople themselves play the leading
role in shaping the response; Efficiency in the human and financial
resources; Full participation of PLWHA and vulnerable
groups; Management understand more about the
disease; and Stop discrimination & stigma.
EBCA Strategies
The major strategy was HIV/AIDS mainstreaming in businesses through
• Bringing together businesses and partners with the EBCA,
• Assessment of HIV/AIDS in the businesses, • Information and experience exchange and • Technical capacity building for HIV/AIDS program
development in companies.
EBCA Partners Members:
More than 108 member and collaborating business Companies
Funding Partners: World Bank Institute (WBI), Action Aid Ethiopia, Initiative Africa, DKT
Ethiopia, UNAIDS, VSO Ethiopia, German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), UNCIEF, Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Implementing partners National HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Office, National Partnership
Forum on AIDS, Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, ILO, business associations (e,g, Employers Federation and Chambers of Commerce), community organizations and others.
Regional and Global Partners ARCAN, PABC, GBC and etc
EBCA Services
EBCA provide and learn from companies experience:
Knowledge: Regular information, experience sharing and other events on HIV/AIDS.
Support: Trainings and consultations to carryout HIV/AIDS activities for your business.
Networks: Connections to HIV/AIDS resources and services in Ethiopia and Africa.
Promotion: Opportunities to promote the HIV/AIDS actions of your company
EBCA Successes
Mobilized the business sector and increased membership from 12 in 2004 to 62 at the end of 2006.
Our interventions are guided by an action framework and road map for HIV/AIDS control, which has evolved through local consultations and according to best practice
Our HIV/AIDS report card helps businesses to evaluate their HIV/AIDS response, according to targets for workplace program development.
Member companies moving from information to service provisions e.g. VCT service, OVC and PLHA care, support tasks, created local
referral and networking system to facilitate ART provisions,
Going beyond the workplace- Companies extend support PLHA and their families, PLWHA are coming out to teach their colleagues
Cont…
EBCA chair the business sub sector in the NPF on AIDS,
Trained 262 workers from 41 companies on leadership, resource Mobilization, policy and clinical aspects of AIDS (only in 2006).
Managed to take part in the 16th International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada and recognized for our leadership commitment.
Our 6 HIV/AIDS modules continue to guide on how to initiate and frame workplace HIV/AIDs programmes and activities.
EBCA task force continue to deal with capacity need assessment and technical,
information and experience sharing related to HIV/AIDS.
Promoted best practices and leadership experiences of member companies on a well distributed weekly local business newspaper.
EBCA Challenges
Internal-EBCA Limited staffing, funding and material base
External-Members• Limited capacity to invest on HIV/AIDS• High turn over of technical staff• Problems of doing what was committed• problems of inconsistency• the isolation of infected persons
Partners- perception problem • Absence of ‘strong business sector’• Resource gap• Policy loopholes to the business sector
Actions Taken
Diversifying the resource base of EBCA and broaden membership and partnership menu to share resources, experiences and technical experts
Continuously advocate and work with business mangers, government sector offices and trade union representatives
Target technical support at management and trade union levels to ensure the active participation of workers at all levels.
Acknowledge, award and disseminate information on best practices, exemplary leadership and organizational responses.
Lessons Learnt
With basic support, local businesses can be mobilized to take ownership of their HIV/AIDS response.
Identifying local champions helped mobilise community leadership.
Workplace events have helped encourage local businesses to do better on HIV/AIDS, and create a sense of ownership to the company and generate demand for EBCA’s services.
Assessment of HIV/AIDS enabled the companies to understand HIV/AIDS impacts and how to plan for HIV/AIDS, as well as monitor their HIV/AIDS response.
Way Forward
Expanding our membership and sources income
Existing government policy on HIV/AIDS and NPF
Improvement on Ethiopia's post election crisis and return of development partners-funding opportunities
Partnership with GTZ will assist to develop EBCA’s capacity and member companies
We believe the commitment of business in the fight against HIV/AIDS is a Win-Win game
Experience will led us to excellence!!!
Thank you!!!