From brothel to boardroom: Prospects for community leadership of HIV interventions in the context of global funding practices

Cornish, Flora; Campbell, Catherine; Shukla, Anuprita; Banerji, Riddhi

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2011.08.018

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“…Such realities, coupled with the growing difficulty for NGOs to attract long-term and multi-sectorial funding, have led Kelly and Birdsall to conclude that “the funding environment in which they [large-scale HIV programmes] exist actively undermines the unique contributions usually attributed to CSOs and it has done relatively little to strengthen the capacity of the sector as a whole” ([2], p.1587). Cornish and colleagues argue that this ‘new managerialism’ forces NGO workers to conform to rigid global management standards, which are ill-suited to engage and empower local actors [22]. It is arguably this context which has led to the failure of some NGOs in our study setting to engage with community groups in a meaningful and empowering way, resulting in social representations that influence how community groups position themselves for NGO partnership-working.…”

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“…Looking at NGO-CBO partnerships for HIV prevention amongst sex workers in India, Cornish and colleagues [22] found NGOs, despite their commitment to empower and engage local community structures, to undermine this potential by prescribing global management standards. Community organisations, in order to access resources, had to conform to certain funding practices, professionalising them in a way that distanced them from the very localism that attracted them funding in the first place.…”

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Getting off on the wrong foot? How community groups in Zimbabwe position themselves for partnerships with external agencies in the HIV response

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BackgroundPartnerships are core to global public health responses. The HIV field embraces partnership working, with growing attention given to the benefits of involving community groups in the HIV response. However, little has been done to unpack the social psychological foundation of partnership working between well-resourced organisations and community groups, and how community representations of partnerships and power asymmetries shape the formation of partnerships for global health. We draw on a psychosocial theory of partnerships to examine community group members’ understanding of self and other as they position themselves for partnerships with non-governmental organisations.MethodsThis mixed qualitative methods study was conducted in the Matobo district of Matabeleland South province in Zimbabwe. The study draws on the perspectives of 90 community group members (29 men and 61 women) who participated in a total of 19 individual in-depth interviews and 9 focus group discussions (n = 71). The participants represented an array of different community groups and different levels of experience of working with NGOs. Verbatim transcripts were imported into Atlas.Ti for thematic indexing and analysis.ResultsGroup members felt they played a central role in the HIV response. Accepting there is a limit to what they can do in isolation, they actively sought to position themselves as potential partners for NGOs. Partnerships with NGOs were said to enable community groups to respond more effectively as well as boost their motivation and morale. However, group members were also acutely aware of how they should act and perform if they were to qualify for a partnership. They spoke about how they had to adopt various strategies to become attractive partners and ‘supportable’ – including being active and obedient.ConclusionsMany community groups in Zimbabwe recognise their role in the HIV response and actively navigate representational systems of self and other to showcase themselves as capable actors. While this commitment is admirable, the dynamics that govern this process reflect knowledge encounters and power asymmetries that are conditioned by the aid architecture, undermining aspiring efforts for more equitable partnerships from the get-go.

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“…Reflecting the dynamic, temporal nature of knowledge encounters, the cases studied also illustrate how, even within powerfully constrained contexts, more transformative encounters can be sustained. These examples point to the importance of developing rich, concrete understandings of others' lifeworlds and to the capacity to take the perspective of the other and grant it legitimacy (Cornish et al, 2012). The more transformative elements evidenced within the partnership also underscore the point that transformative encounters are not about neutralising difference, but about establishing productive tensions between different perspectives and knowledges in order to generate novel, shared ideas and strategies.…”

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Partnerships as knowledge encounters: A psychosocial theory of partnerships for health and community development

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Jovchelovitch

2013

J Health Psychol

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In this article, we present a psychosocial theory of partnership, illustrated with case studies from Cambodia and Brazil. Partnerships are conceptualised as encounters with the knowledge of self and others, entailing processes of representation and communication between all stakeholders involved, and shaped by institutional and sociocultural contexts. We argue that partnership is an evolving practice that requires critical reflection and the creation of enabling institutional contexts. As such, it must be understood not as a tool for intervention, but as part of the intervention and definition of success.

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“…A representative of an LGBTQ+ coalition, which also includes several groups of gay male sex workers, shared that many sex workers who participated in such meetings often felt as if they are not taken seriously as partners. She asked the group if their participation could thus be understood as a Btoken gesture.Ŝ he alluded to the fact that Bcommunity participation^is often a donor requirement (see WHO et al, 2013;UNAIDS, 2012;Cornish, Campbell, Shukla, & Banerji, 2012). A government representative responded that he often did not know how to make use of the information sex workers provided during policy meetings, and then asked the research team to explore this further.…”

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On Tensions and Opportunities: Building Partnerships Between Government and Sex Worker-Led Organizations in Kenya in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS

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Nencel²,

Sabelis³

2018

Sex Res Soc Policy

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This research reveals how the experienced Btokenism^by sex workers' representatives who take part in HIV prevention and care partnerships hinges on a lack of expertise by Btechnical experts^to make use of the different types of knowledge brought to the policy table by them. The article further explores other tensions and opportunities within HIV prevention and care partnerships in Kenya, including the effect of criminalization and devolution on the partnerships.

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From brothel to boardroom: Prospects for community leadership of HIV interventions in the context of global funding practices

Cited by 30 publications

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Getting off on the wrong foot? How community groups in Zimbabwe position themselves for partnerships with external agencies in the HIV response

Getting off on the wrong foot? How community groups in Zimbabwe position themselves for partnerships with external agencies in the HIV response

Partnerships as knowledge encounters: A psychosocial theory of partnerships for health and community development

On Tensions and Opportunities: Building Partnerships Between Government and Sex Worker-Led Organizations in Kenya in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS

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