The SEEP Network HIV/AIDS and Microenterprise Development working group is partnering with The CYES Network to share lessons and improve communications across practitioners working on issues relating to HIV/AIDS, children, youth and economic strengthening. The following is an excerpt from the HAMED invitation to engage in the group's activities this year. Access the full invite here.
Colleagues,
On behalf of the SEEP working group on HIV & AIDS and Microenterprise Development (HAMED), we would like to extend an invitation to all interested parties to participate in our 2009 learning agenda. We will be exploring best practices in integrated health and economic development programming for communities affected by HIV &AIDS.
This year, we will be focusing on three key themes related to HIV/AIDS and microenterprise development:
1. Microinsurance
2. Savings led approaches
3. Cash transfers/ social protection interventions
Economic strengthening for vulnerable children and youth is an important issue that cuts across all three of these. We believe it is impossible to separate discussions on youth and children from discussions on appropriate financial services (microinsurance, savings, cash transfers) for communities affected by HIV & AIDS. Therefore, we are eager to collaborate with the CYES Network to investigate how health, financial and social services can best be designed, implemented and monitored to support the holistic development of children and youth affected by HIV & AIDS.
