Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
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Economic and Social:
Citizenship and Governance
Development
Economics and Finance
Extreme poverty
Financing for Development
HIV/AIDS
Human Rights
Information
Intellectual Property
Population
Sustainable Development
Taxation Policy
Women
Women/gender Equality
Youth
Financing for Development:
Addressing systemic issues
International Cooperation in Tax Matters
Mobilizing domestic financial resources for development
Gender Issues and Advancement of Women:
Advocacy and outreach
Capacity building
Education and training of women
Human rights of women
Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women
Millennium Development Goals
Policy advice
Research
Service provision
Violence against women
Women and HIV/AIDS
Women and health
Women in power and decision-making
Social Development:
Information and Communications Technologies
Poverty
Social policy
Technical cooperation
Youth
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| Geographic scope: |
International
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| Country of activity: |
Thailand
Kenya
Guatemala
Ecuador
South Africa
Argentina
Chile
Dominican Republic
Uruguay
Colombia
Brazil
Uganda
Ukraine
Nicaragua
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
Indonesia
Mexico
Paraguay
Peru
Cuba
Belize
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
Guyana
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| Millennium Development Goals: |
Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Promote gender equality and empower women
Develop global partnership for development
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| Mission statement: |
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| Year established: |
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| Year of registration: |
1993 |
| Organizational structure: |
Gestos' General Assembly is an external body and a decision-making space where we approve our strategic action plan. They meet once a year. We have three hired coordinators, elected by direct vote by all members, with two-years mandate. The executive director is also an elected post. Together they manage all Gestos' programs and strategic actions. The programs developed by GESTOS have the objective of empowering people living with HIV and AIDS and groups in vulnerable conditions to face HIV/AIDS. The three program areas –Human Rights, Strategic Policies and Organizational Development –give political meaning to the institution’s projects and activities. Through these programs… …. We develop and reinforce conceptions of education and psychosocial assistance to people living with AIDS and populations in vulnerable conditions based on Human Rights approach; … We support human rights policies and implementation of democratic cultures towards gender equity, economic equality, positive ethnic/race relations and sexual citizenship; … We strengthen and articulate collective agendas with social movements at different levels to monitor multisectoral public policies to overcome HIV and AIDS. … We implement administrative actions with strong M&E focus to increase our internal and external accountability, in accordance with institutional programs and policies that are based on democrat principles. Strategic Lines: Our activities are based on experiences of gender, race, and sexual citizenship. These dimensions permit the analysis of structures of inequality that present as fundamental conditions of social and personal vulnerability. Population we work with are, mainly, but not restricted to: Women, Youth, Transgender people and MSM infected of affected by HIV and AIDS. Gestos works along five strategic lines: 1. Psychotherapy services and mutual help groups for women, transgender and gay people living with AIDS and their families that includes strategies to adhesion to ARV treatment; 2. Legal advisory services for people living with AIDS, human rights entities and legal system professionals; 3. Educational services: a) For women, transgender and gay people living with AIDS (Leadership Program); b) For networks of women and young women living with HIV/AIDS (Capacity Building Program) c) For health, education, law and human rights’ professionals (Training Program) 4. Research work related to HIV, violence against women and SRHR 5. Advocacy Program – Monitors HIV, AIDS and SRHR national and international laws, policies and programs, aiming the integration of sexual and reproductive health and rights policies for women and the AIDS policies. It focus on national, regional and the international levels. (www.ungassforum.org) |
| Number and type of members: |
Gestos has 13 staff members. Our interdisciplinary team is comprised of sociologists, journalists, social workers, psychologists, lawyers, teachers, anthropologists, educators, and professionals in international relations and economics. In addition to programs developed in conjunction with low-income populations, our sphere of influence effectively reaches the spaces dedicated to monitoring public policy at local (Recife), national (especially the Northeast of Brazil), regional (Latin America), and international levels. |
| Affiliation with NGO networks: |
Latin America and the Caribbean Council of AIDS Service Organization (www.laccaso.net) and ABONG (www.abong.org) |
| Funding structure: |
Donations and grants from domestic sources
Foreign and international grants
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| Funding structure other: |
We are funded through governmental (Brazil) and non-governmental open public calls for projects |
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