Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2007 2008 2009

Details for Mechanism ID: 4935
Country/Region: Côte d'Ivoire
Year: 2007
Main Partner: Hope Worldwide
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: FBO
Funding Agency: USAID
Total Funding: $206,533

Funding for Sexual Prevention: Abstinence/Be Faithful (HVAB): $206,533

HWW began its EP-funded HIV prevention activities in Côte d'Ivoire through Track 1 support. This program is now going to scale and will continue to receive additional country support. The HWW prevention program is aimed at promoting abstinence, faithfulness and reducing risky behaviours among youth. The program operates in the south, central, and the western-central regions of the country. The primary targets of this programme are youth aged 10-14, parents, monogamous couples and men. In 2006, HWW implemented its program in 12 sites which included: Abidjan (9 sites), Bassam, Daloa and Yamoussoukro. In cooperation with the Ministry of Education through the DMOSS, 40 academic organizations and 37 religious organizations were reached with the promotion of primary and secondary abstinence, fidelity in marriage, and reduction of sexual coercion and violence against women interventions. With FY06 funds, the project aimed to reach youth and parents with A and/or B interventions as the program expanded geographically and added new CBO/FBOs as service-delivery partners. Furthermore, in FY06, HWW trained 1,508 youth who in turn reached 46,182 individuals with HIV prevention messages, including an estimated 27,285 with stand alone AB messages. In addition, 5,512 individuals were encouraged to access voluntary counselling and testing services.

In FY07, with central funds and the significant addition of complementary central funds, HWW will continue FY06 activities while expanding to reach an additional 10,000 youth and parents for a total reach of 30,000 (central and country). HWW will expand activities to the regions of Savannah (Bouaké) and Zanzan (Bondoukou) to implement the following activities:

1. Reinforcing the capacity of parents involved with the selected organizations through exchange workshops on parent to child communication. 2. Reinforcing the capacities of monogamous couples in each community through couples counselling and providing additional training for youth in VCT. 3. Developing eight action teams for youth and two action teams for parents to facilitate youth/adult community activities. HWW will also establish a network for the action teams to promote information share. 4. Developing media campaigns for two different communes in collaboration with the national BCC working group. 5. Strengthening the organizational capacity of selected organizations to expand their reach to additional youth in the community.

Hope WW will continue to monitor and evaluate their programs based on EP, project, and national indicators and will continue to asses their progress against the sustainability plan developed during the project's first year.