A Healthy Workforce: A Toolkit for HIV and AIDS Advocacy and Behaviour Change Communication in the Workplace

Author: Academy for Educational Development (AED) SMARTWork (Strategically Managing AIDS Responses Together at Work) Program

Publication Date: 2005

Target Audience: Workplace managers, HIV/AIDS focal persons, peer educators, and labour representatives.

Language: English

Format: Booklet, worksheets, and brochures. CD-ROM also available.

Included on Toolkit: Complete tool

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Description:

A Healthy Workforce was designed for use in the Zimbabwean workplace. The toolkit includes a guide for workplace managers and leaders. Also included are a workbook, pamphlets, and tools. It provides a clear guide to building HIV and AIDS workplace policies and programmes. Existing policies and programmes can also be refined using this toolkit. The toolkit is divided into three parts:

A Healthy Workforce Workbook is a step-by-step guide for workplace officers. Topics include policy and programmes planning, development, implementation, monitoring, review and evaluation.

The SMARTWork Pamphlets are Information, Education and Communication (IEC) and Behaviour Change Communications (BCC) tools for workplace programmes. The pamphlets encourage reduction in HIV/AIDS risk behaviours, stigma and discrimination.

Another available tool is A Workplace Guide for Managers and Labor Leaders: HIV/AIDS Policies and Programs. This CD is a definitive reference on approaches, elements and details critical to workplace policy and programmes. The complete CD-ROM can be obtained through the SMARTWork website: www.smartwork.org.

The full A Healthy Workforce toolkit is primarily intended for workplace officers responsible for policy development and designing and implementing workplace programmes. However, the kit can be extremely useful to managers, HIV/AIDS focal persons, peer educators, and labour representatives.

Click on the following links to view A Healthy Workforce materials:

A Healthy Workforce Booklet (2005)
File Type: PDF Document* File Size: 15MB Pages: 71
SMARTWork Pamphlets (2005)
File Type: PDF Document* File Size: 1MB Pages: 22

Use the contact information to the left to obtain A Healthy Workforce materials.

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A Healthy Workforce Testimonial

As with many companies, Hippo Valley Estates has been working to develop its own workplace programme for many years. In 2003 Hippo Valley Estates was chosen to test SMARTWork’s A Healthy Workforce. As one senior medical officer at Hippo Valley states, “How much easier it would have been had we had a ready-made toolkit such as the one developed by SMARTWork!” Hippo Valley formed support groups for the general promotion of awareness of HIV, and implemented care and support programmes using the tool. They found that the Workplace toolkit was full of useful information and demonstrated very clearly all the steps necessary in establishing a workplace programme. The senior medical officer says the toolkit is “completely Zimbabwe oriented. For any Zimbabwean company just launching itself into the uncertain waters of HIV/AIDS management, the toolkit will be ideal.” The Zimbabwe Business Council on AIDS has since fully endorsed the toolkit and intends to distribute it to all member companies, hoping to save them from the trial and error process Hippo Valley Estates went through!

Version 1.1, January 2007. I-TECH is a collaboration of the University of Washington and the University of California, San Francisco and supported through funding from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) HIV/AIDS Bureau and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Design by UW Creative Services, University of Washington, Seattle.