Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Details for Mechanism ID: 1232
Country/Region: Caribbean Region
Year: 2008
Main Partner: Ministry of Education and Skills Development - Botswana
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: Host Country Government Agency
Funding Agency: enumerations.HHS
Total Funding: $225,000

Funding for Sexual Prevention: Abstinence/Be Faithful (HVAB): $225,000

Result: strengthened early childhood development activities and school-age programs through integrating

HIV/AIDS prevention activities

In collaboration with the MOH and with technical assistance from Educational Development Center (USA),

BOTUSA has helped develop instructional materials for students and teachers to promote the teaching of

the government's life skills curricula and to ensure application of the curricula in schools. The curricula is a

life skills program on HIV/AIDS and related topics (e.g. self awareness, peer pressure) for all the schools in

the country, grades 1- 12, and emphasizes abstinence among the lower and upper grades and adds

discussions of partner fidelity in high school grades. The instructional materials provide background

information on these topics as well as age-appropriate, participatory exercises for teachers to do with their

students. The materials have been piloted in numerous primary schools, and pilot testing in secondary

schools is underway.

Inputs: The USG will provide funding and technical assistance for the continuation of this project.

Activities/Outputs: During FY05, the Ministry of Education, with a contractor selected by them, will develop

a plan to monitor and evaluate the use and impact of the instructional materials and the life skills curricula

more generally. The initial stages of that plan (e.g. baseline survey) will be implemented. MOE will also

assess the need for additional supportive materials to give to students and/or teachers, to reinforce the

curricula and the companion instructional materials. Funding may also be used to supplement the MOE

budget for printing and distributing the materials and providing training to teachers in their use.

Outcome: The curricula will be launched and implemented nation-wide, evaluation mechanisms will be in

place, and youth life skills strengthened.