5-6 November 2007 - Cape Town, South Africa

Link to Action Points

The Stop TB Partnership's Working Group on Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization held its first full meeting since the Working Group's launch in 2005. The two-day meeting, which was held prior to the Union World Conference on Lung Health, was attended by close to 100 participants, including members of the Working Group as well as other interested parties.

The Working Group met in a plenary for the opening session and then separated into the individual sub groups: 1) Global Advocacy for Social Mobilization and 2) ACSM at Country Level. The agendas for both Sub Groups were based on the Working Group's workplan for the next biennium and included presentations on best practices and in-depth discussions on supporting other working group and initiatives to ensure better synergy in all ACSM efforts.

Other topics discussed per Sub Group include:

Sub-Group on Global Advocacy for Resource Mobilization

• Resource mobilization and national advocacy
• Involvement of civil society and TB affected community
• Media, messaging and upcoming events

Sub-Group on ACSM at Country Level

• Best practices at country level
• Quality ACSM technical assistance
• ACSM tools for implementers

Action Points

• DRAFT - ACSM at country level action points
• DRAFT - Global advocacy for resource mobilization action points

Key Documents

• Full agenda for Global advocacy for resource mobilization sub-group meeting
• Full agenda for ACSM at country level sub-group meeting
• Draft biennium workplan for ACSM Working Group

Presentations

Presentations from ACSM at Country Level Sub Group Meeting

Session 1: Best Practices at Country Level

CSM Bangladesh: BRAC Experience
Kenya: ACSM and TB/HIV Stigma
Sudan: National Partnerships to Stop TB

Session 2: Quality ACSM Technical Assistance

ACSM: Your Ally in TB Prevention and Care Efforts
Planning ACSM Activities for TB Control: Asia Regional Training
Indonesia activities in ACSM
ACSM Technical Activity: Kenya's Experience

Session 3: ACSM Tools for Implementers

Implementation: Patients' Charter for TB Care
Implementation: Community Empowerment Guidelines
Growing Social Mobilization in Community Gardens: six steps for building mass movements to Stop TB in high burden countries

Session 4: Supporting other Working Groups and Initiatives

Task Force on Retooling
XDR/MDR-TB Response Plan
Spreading Stop TB National Partnerships
Using information, dialogue & advocacy platforms to facilitate civil society responses to AIDS & TB

Presentations from Global Advocacy for Resource Mobilization Sub Group Meeting

Session 1: Resource Mobilization and National Advocacy

A Centre for Resource Mobilization
Stop TB National Partnerships
Creating Regional Partnerships

Session 2: Civil Society/TB Affected Community Involvement

Patients/TB affected community and civil society involvement
Engaging civil society for resource mobilization

Session 3: Media, Messaging and Events

Working Groups Collaboration to Raise and Enhance Awareness of TB/HIV

Tackling drivers and determinants of TB: Is there a role for the ACSM Working Group?

List of participants

For more information please contact Ms Young-Ae Chu at chuy@who.int.