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AIDS Business Coalition Tanzania (ABCT)

Background

Since the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility has been applied to emerging problems such as the AIDS epidemic by the Global Compact of the United Nations, companies have increasingly contributed to the national and international responses to HIV and AIDS. Assessments conducted in Tanzania in 2002 and 2003 showed that companies were concerned about HIV but few had corporate policies in place as a response to the AIDS epidemic. Only some sectors have reacted early to the HIV epidemic, notably the mining corporations and big multinationals in the tea business. In 2004, 23 companies of the early corporate responders to the AIDS epidemic formed the AIDS Business Coalition Tanzania (ABCT). The GTZ regional project AIDS Control in Companies in Africa (ACCA) has been highly involved in this initiation process and has supported the Coalition since then as part of the Tanzanian German Programme to Support Health (TGPSH).

Objectives
Establish ABCT as a strong advocacy organization, a service provider and the representative of the private sector concerning HIV/AIDS workplace programmes and the national response to AIDS.

Approach

The ACCA project within TGPSH has collected a wealth of experiences from supporting companies in setting-up HIV workplace programmes since 2000. The concept of HIV/AIDS workplace programmes includes

a.      Set-up of a human resource structure and policy to run the programme

b.      Prevention and education activities

c.       Interventions to promote and enhance care, treatment and impact mitigation of AIDS

d.      Monitoring and evaluation

e.      Community outreach

These experiences are fed into ABCT and adapted to the national context. ACCA has also established an Africa-wide network of companies, business coalitions against AIDS and sector specific business organizations to enhance and facilitate the process of mutual learning. The idea is to strengthen ABCT and other business coalitions so that they can convince companies to join the business community active against AIDS, to feed back concerns and needs of the private sector to government institutions as TACAIDS, and to provide services that facilitate activities against HIV and AIDS at the workplace.

Activities

§      Joint development of a business and annual activity plans for ABCT

§      Application for nationally and internationally provided funds

§      Support of the organizational development of ABCT

§      Support of networking with government and other organizations working in the field of AIDS or with the private sector

§      Support of workshops, trainings and sensitization meetings

§      Joint development of training and promotion materials

§      Development of advisory services provided to member companies

§      Introduction of a costing analysis of HIV/AIDS and other monitoring surveys