Creating Demand for Voluntary Male Medical Circumcision (VMMC) Website

The purpose of this website is to offer resources on voluntary male medical circumcision (VMMC) in order to hear about and document initiatives which are working well, in order that implementers are better able to learn from one other. "By knowing more about how other projects work in practice, program implementers can adopt and scale up ideas which have merit for the communities they serve....This is a website for the VMMC demand creation community."

The site includes the following:

• Projects section may be filtered by country (Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) or categories including:
  • Social mobilisation
  • Messaging
  • Interpersonal communications
  • Research
  • Media
  • Traditional leaders
  • Advocacy
  • Female partners
  • Coordination
  • Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
  • Performance based management
• Resources include posted documents in PDF and other formats for download that include case studies, project descriptions, audience analyses, communication strategy documents, news stories, and evaluations, as well as flipcharts and surveys.
• Events, posts, meetings, and award opportunities: "past and future seminars, webinars and other opportunities to connect and collaborate with the wider VMMC community."
• The community is a membership site with login for access that is a "forum for VMMC implementers to discuss and debate VMMC demand creation ideas, topics and strategies with colleagues from the wider VMMC community."