Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2008 2009

Details for Mechanism ID: 3706
Country/Region: Kenya
Year: 2009
Main Partner: Adventist Development and Relief Agency
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: NGO
Funding Agency: USAID
Total Funding: $913,332

Funding for Sexual Prevention: Abstinence/Be Faithful (HVAB): $913,332

ACTIVITY UNCHANGED FROM COP 2008

SECONDARY CROSS-CUTTING BUDGET ATTRIBUTIONS

This activity supports key cross-cutting attributions in education ($730,665) and will provide training to the

youth through training, capacity enhancement, curriculum based education and media outreach

interventions, particularly through TOT outreach, workshops and review meetings at both community and

regional levels.

COP 2008

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

• ADRA will stop airing radio programs in FY 2009 due to the challenges of clearly identifying the number of

people reached and the high costs involved. Instead these funds will be used to strengthen peer education

training in schools and in FBOs for youths aged 10-15.

+ Other changes are in project staffing as follows: Two Behavior Change Specialist Officers have been

hired as replacements in 2008. Further the Project has hired 16 interns to support field supervision and

monitoring activities. Two more interns will be hired in 2009.

1. LIST OF RELATED ACTIVITIES

ADRA works within the districts coordinated by the National AIDS Control Council (NACC).

2. ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION

In FY 2009, ADRA will continue to strengthen implementation through partnerships, community media,

public meetings, and social events. The project will reach the youth through training, capacity enhancement,

curriculum based education and media outreach interventions, particularly through TOT outreach,

workshops and review meetings at both community and regional levels. This will help support scale up

activities with FBO and CBO partners and create opportunities to review challenges and lessons learned in

the implementation process. Anticipated achievements for FY09 include: refresher training on abstinence

and be faithful (AB) to 1,404 Pathfinder leaders and youth leaders from FBOs using age-appropriate

curriculum. As a result 20,000 Pathfinders and 30,000 youth from other FBOs will be reached with AB

messages through peer-to-peer discussion sessions. Youth-serving networks will deliver messages about

AB and social risks (i.e. drug abuse, gender based violence, multiple concurrent partnerships) to 16,000 out

-of-school youth; 300 schools will be supplied with information, education and communication materials,

mainly booklets on HIV and AIDS and life skills; 992 parents will be trained as second level TOTs on

Parent-Child Communication so as to reach 7,682 youth with AB messages. Sixty-four review meetings for

FBOs, CBOs and TOTs from partner organizations will be held to document program challenges and

lessons learned which will be used to improve program implementation. a) Addressing HIV Epidemic

Drivers: ADRA will include prevention strategies addressing the following epidemic drivers: multiple

concurrent partnerships; gender and culturally accepted attitudes and beliefs that tend to increase the risk

of HIV infection; and gender-based violence. To address the above epidemic drivers, UNFPA curriculum on

Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Gender Based Violence will be adopted and used for training the TOTs

during refresher courses. So far six project staffs were trained by UNICEF and GTZ using the UNFPA

curriculum as part of the response to the Post Election Violence in Kenya. The trained team will be resource

persons in training the TOTs. In addition the epidemic drivers will be addressed during outreach exercises

in schools through debates, and participatory community theater in the community to generate community

discourse thus raising the community consciousness on the issues. b) Strengthening of ADRA's Peer

Education in Primary Schools: ADRA will focus on strengthening Peer Education (PE) program in primary

schools for the 10-14 age groups through curriculum based education. ADRA will concentrate the PE

program in selected 80 primary schools (five per district). Further, ADRA will procure and distribute IEC

materials on HIV and AIDS; and youth reproductive health materials to 300 project schools. d) Radio

Programs: ADRA will stop airing radio programs in the second quarter of 2009.The airing of the continuing

radio programs will go on as scheduled and will end in December 2008.No more radio programs will be

developed or aired. Instead ADRA will be put more funds in strengthening the peer education programs in

schools and FBO partners; and printing of training manuals and Information Education and Communication

(IEC) materials.

3. CONTRIBUTIONS TO OVERALL PROGRAM AREA

AB programs will contribute to two areas, namely increased quality of knowledge of HIV transmission and

prevention; increase in the number of outreach programs on AB conducted by FBOs and CBOs for the

youth.

4. LINKS TO OTHER ACTIVITIES

ADRA works within the districts coordinated by the National AIDS Control Council (NACC). The project also

collaborates and works under the policy guidelines of four relevant Government Ministries: Ministry of

Education (MOE), Ministry of Health (MOH), Ministry of Gender, Sports and Social Services (MGSSS) and

the newly established Ministry of Youth Affairs (MOY). ADRA ABY project activities relate to capacity

enhancement of partner FBOs and CBOs to address abstinence and develop programs to involve youth in

the context of empowerment and poverty reduction. The project has prepared an inventory of major social

events in the communities where Trainers of Trainers (TOTs) and theater groups are facilitated to

disseminate AB messages.

5. POPULATIONS BEING TARGETED

The project targets young people aged 10 to 24 years as primary targets. Adults are also targeted as a

secondary target.

6. KEY LEGISLATIVE ISSUES ADDRESSED

ADRA trains and supports volunteer PLWHA from partner FBOs in conducting community outreach as

change agents.

7. EMPHASIS AREAS

The main activities include training, community outreach, media (mass and folk media) activities,

Activity Narrative: procurement and distribution of IEC materials on AB, adolescent reproductive health messages to schools,

FBOs and CBOs. Youth are trained on abstinence, life skills, and HIV and AIDS. Adults are trained on

parent-child communication; and community and religious leaders are trained on public presentation skills,

while CBOs are trained on participatory theatre.

New/Continuing Activity: Continuing Activity

Continuing Activity: 14721

Continued Associated Activity Information

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

System ID System ID

14721 5716.08 U.S. Agency for Adventist 6921 3706.08 $977,256

International Development &

Development Relief Agency

6833 5716.07 U.S. Agency for Adventist 4199 3706.07 $957,503

International Development &

Development Relief Agency

5716 5716.06 U.S. Agency for Adventist 3706 3706.06 $0

International Development &

Development Relief Agency

Emphasis Areas

Human Capacity Development

Public Health Evaluation

Food and Nutrition: Policy, Tools, and Service Delivery

Food and Nutrition: Commodities

Economic Strengthening

Education

Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Education $730,665

Water

Table 3.3.02:

Cross Cutting Budget Categories and Known Amounts Total: $730,665
Education $730,665