Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Details for Mechanism ID: 2525
Country/Region: Caribbean Region
Year: 2008
Main Partner: Pathfinder International
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: NGO
Funding Agency: enumerations.HHS
Total Funding: $30,000

Funding for Sexual Prevention: Abstinence/Be Faithful (HVAB): $30,000

Additional resources to support the following activity:

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

Promotion of abstinence/be faithful programs. 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.