Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2008 2009

Details for Mechanism ID: 3482
Country/Region: Kenya
Year: 2009
Main Partner: American International Health Alliance
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: NGO
Funding Agency: HHS/HRSA
Total Funding: $775,000

Funding for Sexual Prevention: Abstinence/Be Faithful (HVAB): $775,000

ACTIVITY HAS BEEN MODIFIED IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS FROM COP 2008:

+Program will target parents of the youth reached in the ABY school program with a ‘know your status'

campaign for couple counseling and testing.

+The program will address cross-generational sex, gender based violence and make an intensive reach to

rural populations, through its vast Catholic school network countrywide.

+The Families Matter program will be included alongside the school program across all the dioceses in the

country.

COP 2008

The only changes to the program since approval in the 2007 COP are:

• FY 2007 PLUS UP ADDITIONS: This activity will expand support to the Kenya Catholic Secretariat

(KCS)/Kenya Episcopal conference activity previously supported through a sub-grant with CHF. Continued

support will also be provided to enable the Twinning Center through De Paul University continue providing

technical assistance and a sub-grant to the KCS. Activities will be expanded to cover primary school pupils

in additional dioceses of the Catholic church including Muranga, Machakos, Nakuru and Kitale. A

significant expansion in the scope of this activity will be to implement the Families Matter! intervention

among parents of 9-14 year old adolescents that the in-school program targets. The KCS will also use

additional strategies to reach parents through parish-level church community activities targeting parents of

adolescents. This partnership will ensure good quality programming and establish a strong M&E system to

ensure national coverage in the coming year is guided by best practices and evidence-based practice for a

national program. (General Population Youth $400,000).

1. LIST OF RELATED ACTIVITIES

This activity relates to activities in Abstinence and Be Faithful Programs (#6876).

2. ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION

The Kenya Episcopal Conference - Catholic Secretariat (KEC-CS) is currently implementing an HIV

prevention program in parochial schools. There is also a mass media component using a Catholic radio

station. This KEC-CS project is funded as a sub-grant under the CHF capacity building project. KEC-CS

works through a twinning relationship with DePaul University, a Catholic university where several professors

have expertise in HIV prevention activities promoting abstinence and faithfulness. These professors also

have expertise in monitoring and evaluation. The major activity which DePaul University will engage in

under this twinning partnership will be to assist the KEC-CS in monitoring and evaluating their program

which promotes abstinence and faithfulness among Catholic youth attending schools supported by the KEC

-CS as well as assessing the impact of the mass media activities which KEC-CS is conducting.

3. CONTRIBUTIONS TO OVERALL PROGRAM AREA

This twinning relationship will contribute to HIV prevention among 155,000 youth and parents, and train

1,076 teachers and parents to provide abstinence education. It will also assist in the evaluation of AB

activities in Kenya. There are now many FBOs and CBOs implementing AB activities with PEPFAR funding.

Most of these organizations do not have in-house capacity for a thorough assessment of the impact of their

work, so the evaluation findings that this twinning project will generate will no doubt benefit other AB

partners as well.

4. LINKS TO OTHER ACTIVITIES

This project links to AB activities implemented by KEC-CS which are listed under the CHF capacity building

project HVAB (#6876) CARE Kenya. The Twinning initiative will provide technical support to the Kenya

Episcopal Conference/Kenya Catholic Secretariat's program in strengthening its M&E system and overall

programming.

5. POPULATIONS BEING TARGETED

The primary population being targeted by the interventions that will be evaluated is school children

attending Catholic schools. A large FBO, the Kenya Episcopal Conference-Catholic Secretariat, will also

benefit from this twinning partnership.

6. KEY LEGISLATIVE ISSUES ADDRESSED

Twinning is the primary issue addressed in this project.

7. EMPHASIS AREAS

The major emphasis area is strategic information, as monitoring and evaluation is the primary activity to be

supported by this project. A secondary emphasis area is local organization capacity development, as this

activity will also build the capacity of KEC-CS to conduct monitoring and evaluation on their own in the

future.

New/Continuing Activity: Continuing Activity

Continuing Activity: 14730

Continued Associated Activity Information

Activity Activity ID USG Agency Prime Partner Mechanism Mechanism ID Mechanism Planned Funds

System ID System ID

14730 4818.08 HHS/Health American 6925 3482.08 Twinning Center $775,000

Resources International

Services Health Alliance

Administration

6843 4818.07 HHS/Health American 4204 3482.07 Twinning Center $475,000

Resources International

Services Health Alliance

Administration

4818 4818.06 HHS/Health American 3482 3482.06 Twinning Center $75,000

Resources International

Services Health Alliance

Administration

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