Position Summary
Terms of Reference Short-term Consultancy
Living2024 Conference Coordinator based in Europe
GNP+ is seeking a consultant based in Europe to work closely with us to coordinate the Living2024 Conference on behalf of the Living2024 Conference partners.
The Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+), The International Community of Women Living with HIV (ICW), The Global Network of Young People Living with HIV (Y+ Global), The HIV Justice Network (HJN), AIDS Action Europe (AAE), The European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG), Prevention Access Campaign (PAC), and The AfroCAB are coming together to host the Living2024 Conference from 20th - 21st July 2024 as a Pre-Conference at the AIDS2024 Conference in Munich, Germany.
The consultant will work closely with the Living2024 partners to deliver on this mandate and contribute towards organisational efforts for strengthening the capacity of communities and CSO’s at global, regional, and country level to meaningfully engage in the AIDS2024 Conference and activities leading up to it.
Background
The foundation of the Global AIDS Movement lies in community mobilisation and organising that has Since 1983, brought together people living with and affected by HIV from around the world to advocate for an end to AIDS-related stigma and deaths. Using the power of community-led research and evidence-based advocacy we improve outcomes for people living with HIV and continue to shape the agenda of the HIV response; influencing research, policy, financing, and global solidarity whose results is an infrastructure that supports even the ‘hard to reach’ communities to access HIV prevention and treatment they need to live high quality, healthy lives.
Our movement enshrines the Denver Principles developed 40 years ago, asserting the rights and self-determination of people living with HIV. Likewise, the Greater Involvement of People with HIV (GIPA) principle promotes the meaningful participation of people living with HIV in decision-making, not as service recipients or patients, but as equal partners in contributing to the global AIDS response goals. We strongly believe in “nothing for us without us.” The global movement of people living with HIV has played a critical part in every step of progress made over 40 years of the HIV epidemic. We have successfully pushed for meaningful engagement of people living with HIV and for community voices to be heard at all levels and in all aspects of the HIV response. The UNAIDS World AIDS Day report highlights the important need to ‘LET COMMUNITIES LEAD’
The pathway to ending AIDS as a public health threat is clear. However, HIV-related interventions will still be required to sustain and safeguard the gains made so far and ensure quality of life for people living with HIV. Six years to the end of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) and one year before the 2025 target set in the current Global AIDS Strategy, In the absence of an HIV vaccine and AIDS cure, planning for a sustained equitable HIV response beyond 2030 is important and community leadership critical.
The Living2024 Conference is therefore an opportunity to learn about the benefits of HIV science, treatment literacy, and diagnostic opportunities. It is also an opportunity to reflect and organise to counter the anti-rights agenda and address social barriers faced by people living with HIV that continue to limit the civic space needed for our advocacy, as well as the inequalities that fuel stigma, discrimination, and criminalisation.
Objective
To support the Living2024 Conference partners with overall conference planning and coordination leading up to Living2024 and the AIDS2024 Conference.
Expected deliverables
The consultant will:
The consultant will be expected to perform a maximum of 50 working days from 1st February 2024 (or date of signature) to the end of September 2024.
Reporting and payment schedule
The consultant will present updates on weekly team calls and will provide a final report detailing concrete tasks accomplished and products delivered.
Payments will be issued two times. The first 50% of payment will be issued upon signing of the Letter of Agreement (LOA) with GNP+ and the final 50% upon receipt and approval of the final contract report.
Living2024 Conference Coordinator based in Europe
GNP+ is seeking a consultant based in Europe to work closely with us to coordinate the Living2024 Conference on behalf of the Living2024 Conference partners.
The Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+), The International Community of Women Living with HIV (ICW), The Global Network of Young People Living with HIV (Y+ Global), The HIV Justice Network (HJN), AIDS Action Europe (AAE), The European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG), Prevention Access Campaign (PAC), and The AfroCAB are coming together to host the Living2024 Conference from 20th - 21st July 2024 as a Pre-Conference at the AIDS2024 Conference in Munich, Germany.
The consultant will work closely with the Living2024 partners to deliver on this mandate and contribute towards organisational efforts for strengthening the capacity of communities and CSO’s at global, regional, and country level to meaningfully engage in the AIDS2024 Conference and activities leading up to it.
Background
The foundation of the Global AIDS Movement lies in community mobilisation and organising that has Since 1983, brought together people living with and affected by HIV from around the world to advocate for an end to AIDS-related stigma and deaths. Using the power of community-led research and evidence-based advocacy we improve outcomes for people living with HIV and continue to shape the agenda of the HIV response; influencing research, policy, financing, and global solidarity whose results is an infrastructure that supports even the ‘hard to reach’ communities to access HIV prevention and treatment they need to live high quality, healthy lives.
Our movement enshrines the Denver Principles developed 40 years ago, asserting the rights and self-determination of people living with HIV. Likewise, the Greater Involvement of People with HIV (GIPA) principle promotes the meaningful participation of people living with HIV in decision-making, not as service recipients or patients, but as equal partners in contributing to the global AIDS response goals. We strongly believe in “nothing for us without us.” The global movement of people living with HIV has played a critical part in every step of progress made over 40 years of the HIV epidemic. We have successfully pushed for meaningful engagement of people living with HIV and for community voices to be heard at all levels and in all aspects of the HIV response. The UNAIDS World AIDS Day report highlights the important need to ‘LET COMMUNITIES LEAD’
The pathway to ending AIDS as a public health threat is clear. However, HIV-related interventions will still be required to sustain and safeguard the gains made so far and ensure quality of life for people living with HIV. Six years to the end of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) and one year before the 2025 target set in the current Global AIDS Strategy, In the absence of an HIV vaccine and AIDS cure, planning for a sustained equitable HIV response beyond 2030 is important and community leadership critical.
The Living2024 Conference is therefore an opportunity to learn about the benefits of HIV science, treatment literacy, and diagnostic opportunities. It is also an opportunity to reflect and organise to counter the anti-rights agenda and address social barriers faced by people living with HIV that continue to limit the civic space needed for our advocacy, as well as the inequalities that fuel stigma, discrimination, and criminalisation.
Objective
To support the Living2024 Conference partners with overall conference planning and coordination leading up to Living2024 and the AIDS2024 Conference.
Expected deliverables
The consultant will:
- Contribute to the development and implementation of conference coordination plan.
- Contribute to the preparation of documents, reports, meeting notes, presentations, and talking points related to activities under the responsibility of Living2024 Conference partners.
- Lead the planning of the conference including the conference program, logistics, and communications with partners and vendors.
- Lead on the groundwork leading up to and at the Living2024 and AIDS2024 global village events.
- Coordinate community events to build up to the AIDS2024 Conference.
- Jointly with the Living2024 Conference, organise a global two pre and one post Living2024 community and civil society dialogue to mobilise participation for Living2024.
- Jointly with Living2024 Conference partners, give visibility to the participation of civil society and communities living with and affected by HIV in the AIDS2024 and develop targeted messaging, disseminate information about meetings, civil society views, and positions (external communication) through mainstream and digital media.
- Perform other related responsibilities as assigned.
The consultant will be expected to perform a maximum of 50 working days from 1st February 2024 (or date of signature) to the end of September 2024.
Reporting and payment schedule
The consultant will present updates on weekly team calls and will provide a final report detailing concrete tasks accomplished and products delivered.
Payments will be issued two times. The first 50% of payment will be issued upon signing of the Letter of Agreement (LOA) with GNP+ and the final 50% upon receipt and approval of the final contract report.