Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2007 2008 2009

Details for Mechanism ID: 4935
Country/Region: Côte d'Ivoire
Year: 2008
Main Partner: Hope Worldwide
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: FBO
Funding Agency: USAID
Total Funding: $400,000

Funding for Sexual Prevention: Abstinence/Be Faithful (HVAB): $400,000

This activity is funded through central and country funds. Proposed targets are for both funding sources

combined.

Hope Worldwide (HWW) began its EP-funded HIV prevention activities in Côte d'Ivoire in FY06 with Track 1

support. This program is now going to scale and will continue to receive additional country support. The

HWW AB prevention program is aimed at promoting abstinence and faithfulness and reducing risky

behaviors among youth (10-14 years), parents, and monogamous couples, and addressing social norms

with men through behavior change communication (BCC) activities carried out in partnership with academic

and religious organizations.

The program operates in the southern, central, and western-central regions of the country. FY06 funds

continued and improved the quality of activities at 10 sites (nine in Abidjan and one in Bassam) and

financed activities at two new sites (Daloa and Yamoussoukro). Activities were implemented in cooperation

with the Ministry of Education (MEN) and in partnership with 40 schools and other academic programs and

37 religious organizations.

Project activities complement and are coordinated with other initiatives, including EP-funded efforts such as

Ministry of the Fight Against AIDS and JHU-CCP activities to develop effective BCC approaches and

mobilize faith-based communities and opinion leaders; MEN and Ministry of Family and Social Affairs

activities in support of youth and OVC; CARE International and HIV/AIDS Alliance support for CBO/FBOs

and PLWHA; and MOH and EGPAF/ACONDA support for expanded PMTCT, CT, and treatment.

In FY 2007 with central and country funds activities were extended to two new underserved regions in the

north and the west of the country (Savane and Zanzan). FY 07 funds supported the following activities:

1. Situational analysis of new sites to identify opportunities for collaboration with nongovernmental,

academic, and religious organizations.

2. A KAPB study within eight academic and religious organizations selected based on predefined criteria.

3. Trained 25 existing community networks of youth and 24 networks of parents on resources mobilization,

facilitation strategies, project development, and monitoring and evaluation.

4. Reinforced the capacity of parents involved with the selected organizations through exchange workshops

on parent-to-child communication.

5. Reinforced the capacities of monogamous couples in each community through couples counselling and

providing additional training in CT for youth.

6. Developed eight action teams for youth and two action teams for parents to facilitate youth/adult

community activities. HWW also established a system for information sharing across the action teams.

7. Strengthened the organizational capacity of selected organizations to expand their reach to additional

youth in the community.

8. Produced training and BCC materials on abstinence, parent-child communication and community

mobilization in collaboration with JHU/CCP.

In FY 2008 funding will be used to strengthen and expand the activities in the 14 existing sites. The program

will:

1. Work with the Ministry of Education to identify stakeholders from the teaching corps, the DMOSS

representatives, and schools committees (COGES) who will be trained in parent-child communication.

2. Facilitate the establishment of focus group discussions with the organizations intervening in the field of

AB through periodic meetings managed by the Ministry to fight HIV/AIDS.

3. Produce training and BCC materials on abstinence, parent-child communication and community

mobilization in collaboration with JHU/CCP.

4. Train 25 existing community networks of youth and 24 networks of parents on resources mobilization,

facilitation strategies, and monitoring project development.

5. Provide financial support to community networks in order to extend activities promoting abstinence,

faithfulness and HIV testing.

6. Continue to provide support to 8 PMO in Bondoukou and Bouaké to implement their HIV/AIDS activities

designed in their work plans. These PMO will be trained according to their needs identified by HOPE's initial

assessments.

7. Organize 4 workplace visits, career and academic excellence days for 300 youth (focusing on young

girls) practicing abstinence. These activities promote and develop academic excellence, leadership,

initiative, and personal and peer responsibility among the youth.

8. Organize educational activities for 250 youth (sport, outings, social games, etc.) in collaboration with

JHU/CCP's Sport for Life program, the Ministry of Youth and Sports, and the social and cultural services of

city councils.

9. Participate in creating World AIDS Day events in collaboration with community youth networks and

parents for all existing and new sites.

10. Continue to improve the monitoring-evaluation plan based on EP and national indicators.

In addition, Hope in collaboration with CDC/Atlanta's prevention team will pilot test and then evaluate a new

approach and program, Family Matters. This program will be integrated into HOPE's existing activities

regarding parent-child communications.

AB-oriented prevention activities are expected to reach 40,000 people during this reporting period through

community-based BCC interventions.