All Together Now: Community Mobilisation for HIV/AIDS

This toolkit uses participatory learning in action (PLA) principles to take communities through a process of organising for sustained, community-based action on HIV/AIDS issues. The first two sections cover the principles of community mobilisation. The order of mobilisation for HIV/AIDS addressed in the materials is: prevention, care, support, treatment, impact mitigation.

The toolkit enumerates the stages of bringing the community together as:

• mobilising around HIV/AIDS;
• assessing the HIV/AIDS situation in the community and creating a plan;
• acting to implement the plan;
• monitoring, evaluating, and reflecting on activities that make up the plan; and
• scaling up action on HIV/AIDS.

The toolkit looks at policy, legal implications, establishing care as a continuum, and gathering activists and reviewing ethical codes of conduct with them. Once the groundwork for mobilisation is laid, the book gives detailed information on the implementation of each step of the PLA process. It is illustrated with visual demonstrations of community actions for the various parts of the process.

Accompanying this mobilising and framework-building toolkit is a second toolkit of 100 exercises called "Tools Together Now" that gives action activities for the stages of this framework.