Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Details for Mechanism ID: 1304
Country/Region: Caribbean Region
Year: 2008
Main Partner: Advocates for Youth
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: NGO
Funding Agency: enumerations.HHS
Total Funding: $100,000

Funding for Sexual Prevention: Abstinence/Be Faithful (HVAB): $100,000

Result: promoted and integrated abstinence and partner reduction in BCC programs and messages

YOHO: Enhanced work on abstinence; these funds are deferred from FY04 to FY05.

YOHO is a well-known youth-run organization dedicated to a number of key health issues facing youth,

including HIV/AIDS. HHS/CDC/BOTUSA has provided funding for many years to facilitate technical

assistance for their various outreach and IEC projects on HIV/AIDS as well as for institutional strengthening.

Input: The USG provides funding for this project.

Activities/Outputs: In FY05, these funds will be used to enhance YOHO's work on abstinence. Activities

will include training other youth groups, schools, and faith-based organizations in ways to reach youth and

deliver messages about abstinence to them and their parents. They will also include strengthening the

abstinence messages and activities in YOHO's current programs, including their annual arts festival and

bus/taxi outreach programs. Many of YOHO's activities are "edutainment"-based (music, theater) and thus

reach large numbers of youth. Part of the salaries of YOHO staff and YOHO's internal capacity building to

better serve as a resource on abstinence and abstinence programs will also be covered with these funds.

Outcome: YOHO's capacity to work and train on abstinence will be strengthened, and large numbers of

youth will be reached with abstinence messages and programs.