Deadline: 24 March 2015
The Wageningen UR Center of Development Innovation (CDI) calls policy and planning staff, management level staff and staff working in action-oriented research to apply for the short-course HIV/AIDS and food and nutrition security: Mitigating the effects of the pandemic through a rights-based approach to be held from 21 September – 9 October 2015 in the Netherlands. Application is open for the Netherlands Fellowship Program (NFP) from the professionals from NFP countries.
This course aims to provide professionals working on HIV/AIDS and food and nutrition security with the knowledge, skills and motivation, to strengthen, design and implement programs and interventions to mitigate the negative effects of HIV/AIDS on their livelihood using a rights–based approach.
Upon completion of this course the participants will
- Have insight in the medical aspects of HIV/AIDS and their relation to nutritional status.
- Understand the interrelation between food and nutrition security and HIV-AIDS.
- Have strengthened your competence to design a program or intervention to address the negative impacts of HIV/AIDS on food and nutrition security, using a rights-based approach.
- Have clear ideas on how to lobby/advocate to mainstream HIV/AIDS in policies and programs.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be in the following positions – policy and planning staff at the national and sub-national level with responsibility for promoting community and household food and nutrition security for PLWHA within different sectors (agriculture, education, health, community development, local government, planning, etc.); staff working at management and co-ordination level in the planning, management and implementation of community food security and nutrition programs or rural development programs with a HIV/AIDS component; staff working in action-oriented research, advisory and teaching positions directly relevant to HIV/AIDS and food and nutrition security.
For more information, please visit HIV/AIDS and food and nutrition security.