Colleagues, find feedback on ACP conducted in Trinidad and Tobago. I think that there is much we can learn from this feedback.
- 1. What do you expect from this event?
- More info on networking +goal setting
- The exposure to a new approach of dealing with HIV/AIDS, its spread and impact and a greater understanding of the role of communities, all stakeholders.
- I expect to learn “new” skills, concepts, ways of implementing projects for the greater good of all, especially the PLWHA
- Active participation, sharing , learning, to return to my organization to continue the sharing. Effectively operate my NGO to better serve the community/clients to inform my ministry in moving forward
- To sensitize community organizations in building their capacity
- Learning the ways of Guyana and how it can be applied to our country
- To be able to leave here with a solid plan in place to take back to my NGO
- To increase my knowledge about AIDS and how I may be able to help those living with it in communities
- To better handle the disease form people also to educate my friends who do not take time to understand. With the knowledge I hope to receive here I will now have a comprehensive view on the disease
- I expect to learn more about HIV/AIDS and what I can do to stop the epidemic from happening
- Learn and understand more about HIV/AIDS in order to help people understand HIV/AISD in my community and country
- I want to learn to organize and have a successful support group, a group with love, togetherness, a group which will support each other and even people outside of the group
- To gain new knowledge, build networks, strengthen networks. To be able to build the capacity of the HIV community to prevent new infections and reduce secondary infections
- I expect to be informed clearly with the information on HIV and how to use the tools so that I can take back to my organization and community what I have learnt about SALT
- To acquire necessary know how and financial support to the unified fight against the spread of HIV
- More information and better communication between support groups and shareholders and private sector and government ministers
- ‘to be able to develop an effective working tool to mobilize communities and execute various programs/initiatives on HIV issue hope to know how to tread in the sphere of HIV, see and learn how the new process, be a part of the team involved in the process after gaining the tools. Becoming a better provider and a more SALTy human dreaming being.
- 2. Which part(s) of the workshop was/were most useful/interesting?
- I enjoyed the activities used to encourage group effort, thinking and change of ways
- The whole workshop
- Vision
- Learning intervention tools/approaches eg. Dreaming, AAR, strengths
- SALT
- The interactions and the techniques which were taught eg. SALT, SMART, WOT, WOW, AAR
- The question and answers: are you human? SALT
- Self/community assessment, tool The river diagram
- From my opinion the workshop was very interesting
- AAR
- SALT and the questions and answers
- All parts of the workshop was useful and interesting because all go hand in hand one with another
- The practical SALT visit
- Everything about the workshop was useful in whatever way, whether it was good or bad, I have learnt from that
- Linkages of NGOs
- The mechanism taught about SALT
- The field trip
- 3. What else do you think you’ll need for providing balanced support/intervention to people in your community?
- Transparency, financial and human support
- Some form of technical support
- Technical and financial support; plan or strategy
- Transparent funding
- A place to meet with each other so that we could continue
- Commitment
- Total commitment from the community
- Support from my team
- A common place of meeting once a month
- Continuous information
- The genuine support of the key personnel/stakeholders, the government UNAIDS
- Support from my organization
- More interaction with government organizations and other NGOs
- After conference support
- List and perspectives of what CBO and other stakeholders are doing
- A database and referral directory of all who participate, interact and make policies in the area of HIV/AIDS
- 4. List some of the strengths that you came across that you did not realize before
- The ability to exist in a room with so many different personalities with different moods (patience!! And a focused need
- Level of tolerance in work with varied personalities. Pulling almost instinctively positives/strengths
- Tolerance
- My ability to communicate
- AAR
- When everybody came to an agreement
- My ability to communicate
- Commitment, dedication, sincerity
- I have been always and always will be aware of my strength
- NONE
- The valued impact of NGO’s
- Advocacy
- 5. Please share with us, at least one way, in which you will use the information and or skills provided/obtained
- I will be using my new skills in my organization
- Through my involvement with FPA I intend to use it in my interaction with my clients and test the process on a small scale
- Presentation to my principals at the ministry, contact groups in my district
- SALT
- It will be take to my organization and be thoroughly assessed
- By doing the same demonstration shown at the workshop to people that may need help
- I will use the self- assessment tool as a pre-requisite for Training of Trainers
- To better move m y community forward in the fight against HIV/AIDS
- In my women’s group meeting
- Doing the same demonstration
- I will use the dream building in order to know what the community wants and combine SALT to make it happen
- By practicing the same SALT process with my organization
- To share with my community and foundation
- To transfer knowledge to my up and coming south NGO members
- Personally, institutionally and on a community level
- Networking with others and sharing the information
- Use the tool(SALT) in my work
- Advocacy
- 6. What improvements/changes would you suggest for another workshop of this kind?
- To me a lot of time was wasted
- None at this time, it’s a process
- Opportunities for participants especially CBO’s to share their experiences (Strenghts, challenges)
- Stronger focus and organization
- That everyone keep an open mind to each other’s views. A level of respect must be attained
- Breaking the barrier, more civilian interaction
- A little more time could have been spent on the workshop
- Hand out, hand out
- A bit longer
- Everything was just fine
- Invite more people
- Longer timeframe
- Handouts besides trusting the process
- More genuine and inclusive ( with all stakeholders reps) dialogue from the conception to the implementation by the UNAIDS and government
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