Praxis Paper 4

Building Organisational Resilience to HIV/AIDS: Implications for Capacity Building

by Rick James, March 2005

Available in English, French, Spanish, Chinese and Russian

"Important paper - we will use it" (Pete Morgan)

HIV/AIDS is fast becoming the worst ever human disease disaster. The economic and social costs are escalating. For civil society organisations (CSOs), HIV/AIDS is leaving a significant proportion of their beneficiary groups sick, further impoverished and more vulnerable – thereby directly undermining programme impact. The pandemic is putting CSO relationships with donors and other CSOs under pressure. HIV/AIDS is also having an immense impact on the internal organisation of CSOs. There is therefore a desperate need to build not just individual, but organisational resilience to the disease.

This paper highlights the vital role of capacity building providers in ensuring that organisational resilience to HIV/AIDS is brought onto the agenda of their clients. Capacity builders need to be very aware of the issues and have the competencies to support clients in addressing HIV/AIDS mainstreaming in their external programmes and relationships as well as in their internal organisation. It will require HIV/AIDS specialists to develop OD skills as well as OD practitioners developing knowledge and skills in HIV/AIDS. HIV/AIDS will require capacity building practitioners to adapt both the content of their services and methods of delivery.

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