The Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking (HIVAN) and the World Conference on Religion and Peace (WCRP), hosted a capacity-building Resources to Share Fair on 08 July 2009.Held at Temple David, the forum featured a variety of presentations by various organisations and the partners also produced a CD of essential resources for use by attendees.

Paddy Meskin of the WCRP opened the day with an overview of the day’s proceedings. Her presentation can be downloaded here.

The U.S. Consulate’s Thula Hlongwane presented on the Consulate Office’s Resource Centre and activities. His presentation can be downloaded here.

Sue Frye of Diabetes Action presented on her initiative. Her presentation can be downloaded here.

Paul Ngcobo of the MRC TB Unit presented on the disease and the Unit’s activities. His presentation can be downloaded here.

Dr Anne Moyes of McCord’s Hospital presented on the hospital’s ARV programme. Her presentation can be downloaded here.

Gita Dickson and Charles presented on PACSA’s activities. Their presentation can be downloaded here.

Clive Lawler of Heartlines also presented. His presentation can be downloaded here.

Cookie Edwards of the KZN Network on Violence Against Women also presented. Her presentation can be downloaded here.

The Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking (HIVAN) and the World Conference on Religion and Peace (WCRP), hosted a forum entitled Sexuality and Prejudice, on 26 May 2009.Odette Geldenhuys, the Director of Pro-Bono.org (HIV/AIDS Legal Clinic) presented on What’s Law Got to Do with HIV/AIDS?Odette’s presentation can be downloaded here

HIVAN / WCRP Forums - The HIVAN / WCRP Forum has a new partner - the US Consulate. They have come on board to help sponsor more workshops, as well as enabling our members and colleagues to meet with some of their very interesting visitors. We had more than 14 Forums this year, including five Youth Peace Forums, and a special celebration for International Peace Day. Every forum has 60 to 90 people participating and the YPFs have over 1000 young people at theirs.
16 Days of Activism - WCRP and HIVAN joined with Diakonia and the KZN survivors of violence for a very successful 16 Days of Activism against Violence against Women. The E-campaign of “Ring the Bell! Stop the Violence!” also saw articles in the press, a march, a wonderful T Shirt campaign at the City Hall preceded by a beautiful service at Emmanuel Cathedral .

The Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking (HIVAN) and The World Conference on Religion and Peace (WCRP) recently hosted a Capacity Building Workshop. This Capacity Building Workshop introduced forum attendees to Indlu Finlandia’s Skills Training Manual - A Practical Guide to Grassroots Training in Southern Africa.

Aleta Armstrong, the Co-Author of this manual, presented to all attendees on this immensey useful publication. This guidebook is not an Academic work, but rather a practical sharing of the lessons learned to supplement theory with practical guidelines and suggestions. Whilst the manual was created through working in the handcraft sector, the underlying principles can be applied in any grassroots environment. Aleta’s workshop included a general discussion around the manual and a practical exercise which enabled participants to apply the principles within the training manual to their specific organisation and/or initiative.

The manual can be downloaded here

The World Conference on Religion and Peace (WCRP), Durban Chapter and The Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking, HIVAN recently held a Support Group Training workshop, hosted by the U.S. Consulate in Durban.

The target audience for this training was community service providers wishing to set up Support Groups, with the objective being to build capacity and leadership in the HIV / AIDS Service Community.

Training covered a variety of issues and areas including: Supporting Others and basic foundations for a support group; Supporting Caregivers and conflict resolution within a Support Group.

Please click here for a follow-up presentation on this training, as given by Charles Manda during July 2008.

The Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking (HIVAN) and the World Conference on Religion and Peace (WCRP), Durban Chapter, held a Capacity-Building Workshop on Gender-Based Violence at the end of January 2008.

Ms Emma Kang’ethe, Director of the African Women of Faith Network (Nairobi, Kenya) presented, alongwith Ms Dhunluxmi Desai, of the SA Hindu Maha Sabha and Paddy Meskin, of the World Conference on Religions for Peace.

To read the Keynote Address, please click here

To view the Presentation, please click here

The Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking (HIVAN) and The World Conference for Religion and Peace (WCRP) recently held a capacity-building workshop entitled Support Groups - A Vital Component of Healing.

This workshop, held in April 2007, was hosted at Temple David, McCord Road, Durban and had panel presentations focussing on: People living with HIV and AIDS (infected and affected); Victims of domestic violence; Children; Care givers and home-based carers.

To view the Sinosizo Presentation, please click here

To view the Support Group for People Living with HIV/AIDS, please click here

To view the Support Group for Domestic Violence Presentation, please click here

The Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking (HIVAN) and the World Conference on Religions and Peace, Durban Chapter (WCRP-DBN), held a Women’s Day Capacity Building Event entitled Women celebrating their human rights and standing up for them during August 2007.

This event included a report back from the African Women of Faith Network Regional Training Conference on Gender Based Violence, held in Nairobi Kenya. Speakers at this event included: Ms. Dhunluxmi Desai (SA Hindu Maha Sabha - SAHMS; Paddy Meskin (World Conference on Religion Peace - WCRP) and a representative of the Office of the Premier – Gender Machinery.

To view the presentation, please click here

HIVAN has a networking team dedicated to facilitating contact, communication and collaboration within and across the higher education, public, private, faith-based, non-government, and community-based sectors. HIVAN’s website, database, newsletters, reviews, and fora are all intended to enable and encourage these interactions. These fora are attended by community workers, volunteers and representatives from NGOs, FBOs, CBOs and government. They create a context for people and organisations to network and build contacts outside of the usual networks, raise knowledge levels and expose people to relevant and timely issues surrounding HIV and AIDS and creates dialogue between groups that don’t normally come in contact with each other. HIVAN’s networking fora are:

• The MRC KZN AIDS Forum
• Faith-Based Leaders and HIV/AIDS Researchers Forum
• Youth Fora
• Capacity-building Workshops
• Home-Based Care Workshops
• Contentious Issues Panel Discussion
• The HIVAN North and South Coast Communities Fora
• SHAPE
• The Public Health HIV/AIDS Journal Club Forum
• Internal HIVAN Forum

The Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking (HIVAN) and The World Conference on Religion and Peace (WCRP) held a capacity building workshop on 14 June 2006.

This workshop focused on “Successful income generation experiences: what works and what doesn’t”.

To view the Valley Trust’s presentation, please click here

To view the Sinikithemba Presentation, please click here

To view the Woza Moya Presentation, please click here

To view the Siyazama Presentation, please click here