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08BRIDGETOWN77
2008-02-05 20:59:00
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Embassy Bridgetown
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DOL ILO FUNDED PROGRAM IN BARBADOS WINDS DOWN

Tags:  ELAB BEXP ECON KHIV ILO LAB BB XL 
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SUBJECT: DOL ILO FUNDED PROGRAM IN BARBADOS WINDS DOWN


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TAGS: ELAB BEXP ECON KHIV ILO LAB BB XL
SUBJECT: DOL ILO FUNDED PROGRAM IN BARBADOS WINDS DOWN



1. (U) Summary: In December, 2007, DOL funding for the ILO/DOL HIV AIDS
in the Workplace program ended in Barbados. The ILO program held a
workshop in November 2007 to discuss the results of the program and
to look at next steps towards setting up a domestically funded
successor program. Key recommendations from the workshop included:
tailoring the message to fit the audience, designing programs to
target youth, and appropriate training of peer educators. Embassy
Bridgetown continues to be engaged in HIV/AIDS programs including
AIDS in the Workplace programs. Embassy Bridgetown Laboffs served on
the project advisory committee from the inception until the end of
the project. End Summary


2. (U) The ILO/USDOL HIV/AIDS Workplace Education Program hosted a
three-day Workshop," Expanding Circles of Sharing - Dissemination
Workshop" November 21-23, 2007 in Barbados. The Workshop presented
the project's achievements, outputs, good practice and
sustainability plan to the national stakeholders.


3. (U) The workshop discussed the achievements of the Barbados project,
lessons learned and the way forward, challenges and lessons learned
from programs at the enterprise level, and conducted a review of
effective monitoring and evaluation strategies. The workshop also
discussed the main findings from the impact survey of the Barbados
Program. The workshop also considered the resource mobilization
required to transition towards a domestically sustained program as
the ILO/DOL funding stream ended. ILO committed funding as a bridge
financing package to enable the program to continue in the interim.
The program director will be working with the social partners to
gain both governmental and private sector funding.


4. (U) The workshop ended with specific recommendations going forward:


A. A successor program should be considered to facilitate tailoring
of the message appropriately for the specific workplace, to
establish structures that persons with HIV/AIDS would know where
they could find support, and to encourage private sector
organizations to develop enterprise solutions for informal sector
problems.


B. Effective methods should be used to reach the youth with the
message about HIV/AIDS drawing from all sectors - entertainers,
sportsmen, churches, households, and blue collar workers.

C: Appropriate training of Peer Educators should be intensified to
ensure that there are health and safety committees with continuity
of the key aspects of the program in the workplace.


5. (U) Embassy Bridgetown remains engaged in the HIV/AIDS fight in the
region. For FY'07 the USAID HIV/AIDS program received $6.4 million.
CDC Caribbean Regional Office spent approx. $1.5mil in FY-07 on
HIV/AIDS programs in the region. This excludes CDC Guyana and CDC
Haiti who have bilateral programs and whose budgets are
significantly higher than ours.

OURISMAN