Solthis Therapeutic Solidarity and Initiatives for Health

CAPACITY BUILDING

Context :

In Cameroon, sexual and gender minorities are victims of multiple discrimination and stigmatization in the health care sector and in society in general. Created in 2010, Humanity First Cameroon (HFC+) is a Cameroonian community-based association fighting HIV/AIDS and promoting and protecting human rights. HFC+ works primarily with vulnerable populations identified as most at risk, including men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender people. The organization carries out activities in several areas: prevention and management of STIs and HIV/AIDS, advocacy for better access to health care for sexual minorities, and monitoring, education and protection of the rights of sexual minorities. Their activities are carried out in four units: the Sexual Health and Prevention Unit, the Care and Treatment Unit, the Human Rights and Advocacy Unit and the Gender and Women’s Leadership Unit. Solthis was selected by Expertise France at the request of HFC+ with the desire to make its community-based expertise more visible and to strengthen its communication skills and capacities in order to improve the visibility of its activities.

General objective :

Provide an organizational diagnosis of Humanity First Cameroon Plus (HFC+) and help build the organization’s communication capacity.

Specific objective:

OS1: Develop an organizational diagnosis of HFC+ in order to identify strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and risks and to establish an organizational strengthening plan.

OS2: Strengthen the structure’s capacities in the area of communication and advocacy

Expected results:

R1: An organizational diagnosis of the HFC + structure is available, with a focus on the following areas

• The associative project and strategy
• Governance, gender
• Program management
• Communication/advocacy
• Business model and resource mobilization

R2: A budgeted and reasonable capacity building and improvement plan for HFC+ is developed, prioritized and validated by HFC+ decision-making bodies

R3: HFC+’s communication capacities are strengthened

Deliverables:

• Framing note with proposed methodology
• Diagnostic report and its budgeted capacity building plan with a focus on the following areas: the association’s project and strategy, governance, gender, programmatic management, communication/advocacy and the business model and resource mobilization
• Capacity Building Workshop Report
• Capacity Building Workshop Tools