Workplace Guide for Managers and Labor Leaders
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More people go to work everyday than to any other place on the
planet. Doesn't your workplace need an HIV/AIDS policy and pro-
gram?
SMARTWork (Strategically Managing AIDS Responses Together in the
Workplace), a program of the Academy for Educational Development
(AED), is working in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Nigeria,
Ukraine, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe to assist organizations to estab-
lish effective HIV/AIDS workplace policies and comprehensive
programs. The SMARTWork Program conducts national and enterprise
level needs assessments, workshops, training seminars, and of-
fers other technical assistance on how to develop and implement
workplace programs that reduce HIV transmission, stigma, and
discrimination against people living with and affected by
HIV/AIDS.
AED is pleased to announce the release of its Workplace Guide
for Managers and Labor Leaders: HIV/AIDS Policies and Programs.
After extensive piloting in the six project countries, the guide
is now available on our website: www.smartwork.org (you may also
contact us by email to request a CD-ROM). The Workplace Guide
provides a thorough, step-by-step approach to help workplaces
respond effectively. Although it is currently available only in
English, it will soon be available in Spanish, French, Russian,
and Vietnamese.
The Workplace Guide is unique: it describes how to create an
HIV/AIDS workplace policy and program with the full involvement
of both business and labor representatives. Though it can be
difficult to bring business and labor representatives to the ta-
ble, doing so creates the best potential for workplace programs
to be comprehensive, credible to workers, and sustained over
time.
All workers need tools to do their work, and building an effec-
tive workplace HIV/AIDS program is no different.
In addition to the Workplace Guide, there are many other tools
and resources available on the SMARTWork website
(http://www.smartwork.org), including sample workplace posters
and IEC/BCC educational materials, company policies, and country
studies.
Since 2001, when SMARTWork was launched with funding from the
United States Department of Labor (DOL) and the Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Prevention (CDC), the program has assisted
business managers, labor representatives, and regular workers
from dozens of organizations to establish policies and programs
that are reaching and benefiting tens of thousands of workers.
Adidas-Salomon, Anglo American, Cadbury, Standard Chartered
Bank, Timberland, Sheraton, Statoil, Colgate Palmolive, the Vic-
toria Falls Informal Union of Artisans, and the United Nations
Development Program (UNDP) are just a few of the international
companies and organizations that SMARTWork has assisted with
hands-on, tailored TA. By September 2005, when DOL's funding is
slated to end, the program will have assisted over 100 enter-
prises, employing well over 100,000 workers, in Dominican Repub-
lic, Haiti, Nigeria, Ukraine, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe. In the fu-
ture, AED intends to expand and extend SMARTWork to reach more
workplaces within the six countries and beyond. SMARTWork can
also help you.
If you would like more information about how SMARTWork can help
you, contact us at AED's Center on AIDS & Community Health. It's
the first step to an effective HIV/AIDS response that protects
the rights, and improves the lives, of workers. Make HIV/AIDS
prevention at the workplace your priority.
Compassion demands it. The workforce needs it. The economy de-
pends on it.
For further information see our website:
http://www.smartwork.org
You may also contact:
Matthew W Roberts, Ph.D.
Project Director, SMARTWork
Center on AIDS & Community Health (COACH)
Academy for Educational Development
1825 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20009 USA
Tel. +1-202-884-8358
Fax: +1-202-884-8474
mailto:smartwork@aed.org
http://www.smartwork.org