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Self Assessment

The Ten Practises of AIDS Competence
  • Acknowledgement and Recognition
  • Inclusion
  • Linking care and prevention
  • Access to Treatment
  • Identify and address vulnerability
  • Gender
  • Learning and Transfer
  • Measuring change and adapting our response
  • Ways of working
  • Mobilising resources


Jean-Louis Lamboray of the Constellation for AIDS Competence
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 How competent is our community to deal with the challenges of HIV/AIDS? Where are we today? Where do we want to be in the future?

New!

From 1 July 2007, the Constellation has updated the Self Assessment tool.

Read about the changes and why they were made
Usa Duongsaa discusses in more detail why the Coaches of the Constellation decided to make these changes.
View the updated Self Assessment Framework
Download the updated Self Assessment Framework

 
Self Assessment is a powerful tool because:
  • It gives back a voice to the people
  • It stimulates dialogue
  • It surfaces local reality
  • It defines priorities
  • It ensures that actions are relevant to the local context
  • It ensures follow-up
  • It leads to the formulation of lessons learned
  • ...which can then be shared

The Self Assessment framework allows you to assess yourself on 10 practices (see left). You assess yourself at a level between Level 1 and Level 5. The levels for each practice are defined in the Self Assessment Framework, but you can understand them in general terms as follows:
In a Self Assessment, a community agrees upon:

  1. A level (from 1 to 5) for each practice.
  2. A target level for each practice.
  3. The practices on which they want to concentrate.
  4. Actions they want to undertake to reach the target levels.
  5. A time frame within which they will reach each target level.
  6. Indicators which will let them know that they have reached each target level.
The Self Assessment Framework
View the Self Assessment framework (will open in a new web page)
Download the Self Assessment framework (Word Document)

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