The Coalition on Children Affected by AIDS is a collective of private and public foundations and regranting organizations in the North and South. We work to improve the lives of children infected by and affected by HIV/AIDS, aided by key technical experts.

CCABA has contined to build on the momentum gained at the XVIIth International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, and the pre-conference symposium we organized with The Teresa Group called Children and HIV/AIDS: Action Now, Action How.

At a 3-hour strategy meeting in Mexico City on August 3rd 2008, CCABA developed our agenda for the next two years.

CCABA’s Agenda until 2010:

CCABA’s steering committee agreed to focus its activities on Universal Access for Children by 2010.  Furthermore, all of our products and activities should support advocacy for children and families affected by HIV and AIDS.  The following key projects emerged, all of which will have the goal of promoting Universal Access:

• Use networks and leverage its influence to convene meetings with people who normally don’t think about children affected by HIV/AIDS.

• A partnership to engage CCABA funder-partners, their grantees and other INGOs connected to CCABA in a common research project.

• Supporting and contributing to the monitoring of the effectiveness of donors.

As a means to achieving and promoting these goals, the following activities were supported:

• Keep working to influence the International AIDS Conference, with the next target being AIDS 2010 in Vienna.
• CCABA and The Teresa Group should organize another pre-conference symposium on children, in Vienna in 2010. We will partner with World Vision Austria.
• CCABA should be engaging with the Global Partners Forum on Children and HIV/AIDS.
• CCABA will develop its own agenda for children, which it will publicized as we lead up to the IAC in 2010.
• CCABA should ‘franchise’ its work raising children’s issues at the IAC by expanding this to other conferences. It could do so through its members and technical experts in Asia and Latin America.
• Funder-members of CCABA will work together to find ways of supporting grantees to increase their capacity in engaging in a research agenda and in advocacy for children.

For more information about our mandate, and our goals, click here.

 

**NEW** Global Action for Children seeking new Executive Director

The Board of Directors of Global Action for Children (GAC) is pleased to announce its recruitment of an entrepreneurial and dynamic leader to succeed Jennifer Delaney as the Executive Director.  GAC is dedicated to improving the lives of orphans and highly vulnerable children in developing countries by ensuring that all children have access to essential health care, education, food and nutrition, and the social protection they need to develop to their full potential.  Under Jennifer’s outstanding stewardship, GAC has grown quickly and impacted policy nationally and internationally, uniting GAC’s coalition partners and advancing a comprehensive approach to children’s well-being.   GAC is seeking assistance in identifying strong candidates and urge you to forward this note to those who may be interested in applying. 

A detailed job description can be found on the GAC website. Applicants should send a one-page cover letter and resume to applyto@globalactionforchildren.org