Through networking, training, grants, mentoring and outreach, the project:

• enhances grassroots organisational and leadership capacity
• promotes new and effective methods of HIV prevention
• supports the exercise of basic human rights related to HIV and AIDS, and
• helps secure access to care and treatment.

Yelula/U-khâi will run from 2007-2010 and is funded by the European Union, and IBIS, Hivos and People in Need.

The Yelula pilot project started in 2004 as a collaboration between Hivos and IBIS as part of Alliance2015 – a coalition of six European NGOs working to achieve the UN’s Millenium Development Goals for 2015. With the birth of Yelula/U-khâi, the project has entered its second phase, which sees Hivos and IBIS – in cooperation with a third Alliance2015 partner, People in Need and the Namibian Legal Assistance Centre (LAC) – expanding the model to the south of Namibia with an increased focus on a rights-based approach.