What we do
Established in 1990, SAT continues to capacity strengthen and support community-based organisations, emerging regional organisations, and national networks that provide services to people infected and affected by HIV and AIDS. SAT works for positive behaviour change and confronts the factors that make communities vulnerable to the spread of HIV and the impact of AIDS. Each year SAT supports about 25 partners in each of its five country programmes (Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe). SAT's regional actions are informed by national priorities through its country offices and the direct link with communities. SATs work has continued to centre on partner recruitment, partner capacity development using the School Without Walls methodology, monitoring and evaluation, communications and publication, grants management and operations research.
This work is done through four strategic areas:
Competence: strengthening and supporting community HIV and AIDS competence through partnerships with emerging community based organisations, networks and advocacy partners (at district, country and regional level).
Knowledge: creation, management and sharing of knowledge on the epidemic and on HIV and AIDS community competence through action research and sharing of new lessons on the epidemic and the response with SAT partners.
Influence: increasing the influence of community experiences on the response and policies on HIV and AIDS through advocacy, in collaboration with strategic partners and through support to network and advocacy organisations.
Values: strengthening SAT and partners as value-led learning organisations basing programmes and operations on a rights-based approach including mainstreaming of gender, human / child rights, SRHR and a meaningful involvement of people living with HIV and AIDS.
To fulfil its strategy, SAT employs the following modalities:
- sub-granting
- School Without Walls
- action research
- strategic partnerships
- communications and publications
- advocacy for policy influence
- Monitoring and Evaluation