Step by Step: a guide to HIV and AIDS policy development for the education sector. Caribbean Education Sector HIV and AIDS Capacity Building Programme.

Caribbean and UNESCOs 2006 series Good Policy and Practice in HIV and AIDS Education. Further the Mobile Task Team on the Impact of HIV/AIDS on Education (MTT) in South Africa had developed the rapid policy development process. Used in a number of African countries this approach involves bringing together a multi-sectoral group to develop an initial draft policy. This process reverses the traditional approach in which a first draft may only emerge after long consultation review and deliberation. This interactive consensus-building process concentrates on getting 80% of the drafting accomplished during a four-day workshop. EDC partnered with MTT in piloting this approach in the Caribbean and based these tools on that Caribbean experience. The division of Health and Human Development Programs at EDC designed this toolkit as part of the CARICOM-funded project Caribbean Education Sector HIV/AIDS Capacity Building Programme. This toolkit was developed to guide Ministries of Education particularly in the Caribbean region through the rapid policy development process towards a specific outcome: an effective HIV and AIDS policy for the education sector that is linked with an achievable implementation plan. Ten tools are provided to assist education sector leaders and staff in the policy cycle process from planning to evaluation. (excerpt)