Humsafar Resource Center


Resource Materials

IMPORTANT NOTE:
All resouce materials below are the intellectual property of The Humsafar Trust and its team / consultants / advisors. Kindly give due credit if any of these are used as references. The credit may read: The Humsafar Trust, Mumbai and mention the author, if any. Thanks.

* HST Advocacy Strategy

Public advocacy is the effort to influence public policy through various forms of persuasive communication. Public policies include statements, policies, or prevailing practices imposed by those in authority to guide or control institutional, community and sometimes-individual behavior.

HSTs advocacy program's goal was to 'Promote rational attitudes towards sex, sexuality and gender'.

"What started as efforts to sensitize and make Goverment Officials and other Policy makers aware that MSM exist has evolved into advocating for their rights in all facets of Mainstream Society" ~ Girish Kumar, Administrator, HST

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* HST BCC Strategy

Behavior Change Communication (BCC)

Specific, well-researched, multi-media interventions need to be strengthened in Maharashtra to bring about primary behavior change. These approaches must be rooted in community or key group perceptions and beliefs and must involve these groups in their formulation and execution, especially where the object is common norm change. Often the 'hidden norms' on sexual behavior matters are not openly recognized and conflict greatly with the stated or public norms of community members and commonly 'gatekeepers'.

Behavior development and behavior change and social change is possible through strategic communication interventions that are well founded on research and involve those most affected.

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* Committed Community Health Worker (CCHW) certified course

HST provides a month long course that is meant for grass root, outreach workers in an organisation the course will go through the genesis of self transformation, working with groups, information on the pandemic and home based care. The course aims at empowering individuals towards mobilization of the community to develop self help groups and work towards betterment of the communities struggle against HIV.

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* Protocol for HST Drop in Center

The HST Drop in center has developed a protocol of its Dos' and Don'ts at the D.I.C and the protocol has been developed in consultation with the community. The community has decided for itself the Do's and don't of the center. These dos' and Don'ts are developed with the aim of maintaining comfort ability, confidentiality, friendly environment and homely feeling in the premises.

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* Humsafar Trust Organogram

Humsafar Trust has evolved as a community based organization that prides itself in a smooth flow of operations. The organogram here depicts the organizational structure.

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* Project Management

HST had started its activities in an organized manner in 1994. However for lack of professional expertise support from within the community, documentation and development of project management tools had to wait.

But it became very vital that not only financial management system need to be put into place but project management tools will have to be developed to effective management of the projects.

In the month of September 2002 HST started the process of developing its own Management Information Systems (MIS).

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