Case Studies

KP REACH is a three-year (2016-2018) Global Fund financed programme formulated by “Key Population” networks and NGOs in Southern Africa to address the higher levels of HIV infection among sex workers, men who have sex with men, and transgender people. Lesbians and other women who have sex with women were included in this grant as a “key focus group”.
Over the years of implementation, the Coalition of African Lesbians (CAL) has led the KP REACH Learning component of the KP REACH project. While the overall aim of the project is reduced HIV incidence and mortality among key populations in Southern Africa through improved access by key populations to HIV prevention, testing and treatment services, the learning mechanism has been particularly concerned with the role of knowledge and learning in advocacy, political action and organising, and programming.
An assumption in the implementation of this project has been that stronger networks will work more effectively with their members and partners in-country and that this in turn will strengthen the work on access to health services in the context of HIV.
In-country conversations have opened up space for critical engagement around issues that activists face in the work around access including challenging the politics of knowledge and of money, navigating scarcity whether real or artificial, individual as well as collective/communal wellness and wellbeing, and building healthy solidarities.

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The report focuses on the final Co-creating Conscious Learning cultures (CCLC) conversation that took place in Lusaka Zambia from the 13th – 14th August, 2018. The conversation was led by The Coalition of African Lesbians(CAL) with support from TransBantu Association Zambia. It is part of the work that CAL has to do in all 8 southern African countries where the KPREACH project is being implemented. Specifically, the conversation falls under the KP LEARNING component of the KP-REACH project. KP LEARNING falls under objective 2 of KP REACH which is:
“To improve data collection/ evidence use, knowledge management, scale up and replication of best practice for more responsive national level programming and policies for improved access to HIV prevention, testing and treatment services for key populations and key focus groups in at least 75% of the participating countries by 2018.”
The expected key outputs for this conversation were Case studies which focus on the work that in country organizations are implementing. Another expected output was the audio/visual recording of participants’ experience of the methodology and content of the CCLC. The purpose of the workshop was also to establish what philosophy shapes the work of the different organisations as well as appreciate the strategies that different organisations use to advocate for access to HIV prevention, testing and treatment services. The case studies directly contribute to Output 7 and Output 8 of the KP LEARNING component which are:
Output 7: Findings from at least 75% of the 8 planned annual national good practice learning workshops disseminated
Output 8: National good practice models documented as case studies made available a year on KP REACH NET (8 per country a year from December 2016)

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This report describes the key conversation points and lessons learned in the Co-Creating Conscious Learning Cultures workshop held in Lavumisa, in the Kingdom of eSwatini on the 28th of the 29th of August 2018. This workshop was the last conversation that forms part of a series of conversations held in 2016 and in 2017 for the 3-year Key Populations – Representation, Evidence and Advocacy for Change in Health (KP REACH) program, which aims to reduce HIV infections and HIV-related deaths among key populations in Southern Africa through improved access by KPs to HIV prevention, testing and treatment services.
The workshop is part of the KP REACH Learning component of the program, which is led by CAL. This component is expected to strengthen the political work, programming and organising of the four networks in this Project – the African Sex Worker Alliance (ASWA), Southern Africa Trans Forum (SATF), African Men for Sexual Health and Rights (AMSHeR), and CAL. It will do this by exploring, analysing, and providing evidence of what works in advocating for access to health services for KPs (men who have sex with men, sex workers, transgender people, women who have sex with women and other marginalized groups) in the context of HIV and AIDS, and so shape the advocacy messaging to influence policy and other decisions makers at a local, national and sub-regional level.

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This report outlines key conversations that took place during the Co-Creating Conscious Learning Cultures Conversation facilitated by the Women’s Leadership Centre under the KP REACH Learning Programme of the Coalition of African Lesbians (CAL). The 2-day Conversation was held Heja Game Lodge outside Windhoek, Namibia, from the 26th- 27th September 2018. The Conversation was part of the 3-year Key Populations – Representation, Evidence and Advocacy for Change in Health (KP REACH) programme, which aimed to reduce HIV infections and HIV-related deaths among key populations in Southern Africa through improved access by KPs to HIV prevention, testing and treatment services. The project facilitated analysis, documentation and the sharing of good practice of working models and approaches from within the Southern Africa region.
The Women’s Leadership Centre only joined this programme in 2018, with the aim of broadening the understanding of Key Populations to include rural women living under customary law and exposed to harmful cultural practices that expose them to high risk of HIV infection. For example, the HIV prevalence rate has been close to 50% over the past ten years among women in Zambezi Region in Namibia, as indicated in the national bi-annual sentinel surveys of the Ministry of Health and Social Services.

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Centre for the Development of People (CEDEP) in partnership with Coalition of African Lesbians (CAL) are implementing the Access to Health program through the KP Reach Grant in Malawi. The project is being implemented under the KP REACH Learning component in 8 countries; Malawi, Botswana, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Swaziland. The Coalition of African Lesbians is a feminist, pan Africanist membership-based network working for transformation in power relations and to create a world where everyone can live in dignity and freedom. CAL two main programming areas are Advocacy and Learning and Development.

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The KPREACH conversation in Lesotho was held from the 29th – 30th August 2018 in the capital Maseru. Modelled as part of similar final conversations happening in all 8 countries this was intended to provide a forum for the conclusion and rounding off of the programme implementation in Lesotho. The conversation being the last one planned KPREACH activity in Lesotho meant this was intended as a rounding off session with planning and commitments for the sustainability of the work that has been done thus far.
At the initial conversation in October 2016, it was said that these conversations are expected to workshops will also explore, analyze and provide evidence of what has worked, what needs improvement and of good practices that have shown strides in implementation of providing a more responsive and inclusive health services in an effort to curb the non-ceasing spread and stigma of HIV and AIDS. This program was specifically tailored to look at populations that have
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been found to be most vulnerable to new and continued HIV infection, namely key populations and the various challenges that they face in the advocacy, implementation and daily work of advocating for the right to health in their respective contexts.

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The purpose of this conversation was to deepen discussion and analysis around KPRL, as well as strengthen understanding and knowledge of the question of organising, status of our learning and knowledge creation to elaborate on pertinent conversations around road mapping, solidarity and collaboration in our organizing cultures and how they can strengthen our work, critical thinking and generating ideas and solutions that work in the context of access to health in Botswana. The space offered activists to meeting and connecting platform and produce our own lessons learned throughout the KP REACH project and how we envision the use and sustainability of our knowledge. W ensured that it be a safe space to come together to share experiences and lived realities, learn from each other and explore creative and a collaborative way to represent ourselves.
The proposed outcomes were:
• To explore how national organising mechanisms have worked and how these look-the role of civil society
• To collectively identify ways of working, i.e. values and practices that can/ have strengthen our organizing;

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