ACTIVITY UNCHANGED FROM COP 2008

SECONDARY CROSS-CUTTING BUDGET ATTRIBUTIONS

This activity will support educational activities ($639,069) related to life skills training and HIV prevention.

The activity will continue to build partnerships with schools, local churches, FBOs, CBOs, NGOs and other

affinity groups. This activity will focus on three main themes which are strengthening, saturating and

sustaining.

COP 2008

1. LIST OF RELATED ACTIVITIES

This activity relates to ADRA's AB program (#6833) and the APHIA II Rift Valley interventions (#9070). Sub-

partners include Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Communication

Programs; Scripture Union; and Kenya Students Christian Fellowship.

2. ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION

In FY09 the World Vision (WV) Abstinence and Risk Avoidance for Youth (ARK) Program will respond to the

new Kenya AIDS Indicator Survey 2007 (KAIS) and the ARK mid-term evaluation findings by focusing on

three main themes (3S) Strengthening ,saturating and sustaining. - Strengthen already established ARK

structures, supportive supervision and refresher training for Peer Educators, Teachers and ToT,

linkages/referrals and monitoring system. (a) Compile monitoring handbook for data collection system, and

retrain staff, volunteers and district and community representatives.; (b) standardize the operational

definition of "reached" vis-à-vis "trained"; (c) disaggregate those receiving multiple ARK exposures from

those with one hour of outreach; and (d) enhance assessments of staff and volunteer performance

improvement . -Saturate the programme area with "A"&"B" messages by focusing on in-depth repeat

exposure for youth and parent groups through small group dialogues and full ARK curriculum with greater

emphasis on the 15-25 yr old "B" group. In response to KAIS which revealed higher HIV risk among 25-34

year olds, married, school-leavers, un-circumcised males, people with other STIs and rural people, reach

previously under-reached pockets and higher-risk youth such as older, sexually active, out-of-school and

OVC, with ARK curriculum. Introduce supplemental materials, messages and skills for these groups,

emphasizing personalization of risk, secondary abstinence, fidelity, avoidance of MCP, cross-generational

and transactional sex, STI and balanced condom information. - To ensure that interventions will be

sustained at the end of the project, ARK will facilitate sustainability/transition workshops in all districts

engaging all partners and stakeholders in order to ease the transition process and reduce the shock often

felt at the end of project funding. The exercise will engage community and government leaders and ARK

groups in review of transition options and issues and will result in detailed sustainability plans including

objectives, benchmarks, indicators, persons responsible and timelines. Existing structures such as YAGs,

PAGs and DACs will monitor implementation of sustainability plans. ARK will hence slow down rate of new

outreach, shift balance to 15-24 year olds, and focus less on large crowd events more on intensity and

quality of exposures.

ARK will continue to build upon the expertise and on-the-ground presence of World Vision Area

Development Programs (ADPs), relationships with schools, local churches, FBOs, CBOs, NGOs and other

affinity groups to mobilize: (i) Trained FBO leaders to incorporate AB messages in their weekly sermons; (ii)

Youth Action Groups including health club Peer Educators to foster the adoption of AB behaviors by

strengthening their capacity for healthy behaviors; (iii) Parent Groups equipped to communicate and

counsel youth about sexual health and healthy choices; (iv) Teachers and other community "influentials"

trained to overcome attitudinal barriers to effective communication regarding youth sexuality such that they

can facilitate, counsel and reinforce AB messages; and (v) ADP-organized Community Care Coalitions

(CCC) who are providing basic health, education, and psychosocial support to OVC and PLHWA to

promote/reinforce AB messages. ARK's focused messages and skills development are on risk

avoidance/reduction for all youth, regardless of age group. The primary aim is to delay first intercourse

among youth 10 to 14 years old, to delay first intercourse and/or increase "secondary abstinence" until

marriage among sexually active youth 15 to 24 year olds and to strengthen youth understanding and

capacity for mutual fidelity and commitment to a single partner within marriage. Organizations and

community structures such as youth serving-facilities, FBOs, CBOs, schools, church and faith communities

will continue to be strengthened to support young people in their efforts to abstain and be faithful. ARK

strives to create an enabling environment for youth where they receive support and re-enforcement for AB

behaviors in order to transform social norms through communities. Capacities of increasing numbers of

local village HIV&AIDS committees will be built to support and/or advocate for AB programs in collaboration

with Area Advisory Councils. ARK will facilitate dialogue and Common Ground Melting Pot meetings among

youth, parents and other stakeholders, particularly challenging harmful norms that present barriers to

positive health practices. The ARK Management Team will present briefings and/or progress reports to the

governments on ARK AB programs. In addition, ARK will continue to build the capacity of the two

implementing partner FBOs to improve the quality of their training and to scale up their AB training and

mobilization activities.

3. CONTRIBUTIONS TO OVERALL PROGRAM AREA

ARK will generate 1400 youth Peer Educators/Coaches, 700 adult mentors, and 250 community outreach

programs that promote "A and/or B" equipping 39,120 youth 10 to 14 years old with life skills that will help

them delay age of sexual debut/abstain from sexual activity, 39,140 youth 15 to 24 years to practice primary

or secondary abstinence, "A and/or B," and 19,540 parents and responsible adults to support these

protective behaviors, thus contributing to a reduction in the rate of HIV transmission. ARK will create a

critical mass of groups of parents, community and religious leaders, teachers, youth service providers. It will

train 30 masters of Core trainers that will supervise district core trainers. ARK will sensitize and mobilize

200 government leaders at various levels take up some of the interventions carried out by ARK and

particularly to continue to defend and promote the rights of youth and to protect them from HIV/AIDS by

advocating and supporting the "A and/or B" behaviors. All the above activities support the national

strategies of the government of Kenya, as outlined in the Kenya National AIDS Control Strategic Plan 2006-

2010) and have the explicit support of government ministries that deal with youth and HIV/AIDS.

Activity Narrative: 4. LINKS TO OTHER ACTIVITIES

ARK activities are linked to ongoing work within the World Vision ADPs, which facilitate advisory and action

groups and use the systems that exist in local communities to cultivate supportive family and community

environments for youth to practice the A and/or B behaviors. ARK collaborates with the Ministries of

Education, youth and Health to mobilize and equip youth, health care providers and teachers with skills to

promote A and/or B behaviors. ARK will also collaborate with other development organizations such as

ADRA, CARE, FHI and NOPE to increase the range and quality of services to the youth, Links with AB-

Track 1-ADRA and AB activity APHIA, Nyanza, Western and Rift Valley. ARK works closely with village and

district level leadership as well as FBO leaders to address obstacles in the environment that curtail the

adoption of A&B norms.

5. POPULATIONS BEING TARGETED

ARK's primary target audience is girls aged 10-24 years with boys of the same age as a secondary target;

this year expanding to adults up to 49 years old (male/female), while parents, caregivers, teachers, religious

and community leaders and health care providers are tertiary targets. ARK targets youth aged 10-14 with

outreach "A" activities; aged 15-24 years receive "A and/or B" activities inc. including secondary abstinence

for those who are already sexually active; 25 to 49 with "B' and condom use messages.

6. KEY LEGISLATIVE ISSUES ADDRESSED

ARK activities address male and female cultural beliefs, norms and stereotypes that predispose both sexes

to HIV infection, while empowering males to be defenders of women and girls' rights and to exercise equity

in all areas. ARK maintains a deliberate bias towards addressing the needs of girls and young women.

7. EMPHASIS AREAS

This activity emphasizes community mobilization of various types of organizations referred to above. Other

emphases include local organization capacity development; quality training and supportive supervision;

strengthening the M&E system; mass production of ‘extending tools' e.g., ARK passport to enable the youth

to stick to the healthy choices they make.

New/Continuing Activity: Continuing Activity

Continuing Activity: 15069

Continued Associated Activity Information

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

System ID System ID

15069 5720.08 U.S. Agency for World Vision 7032 4684.08 $564,000

International International

Development

7133 5720.07 U.S. Agency for World Vision 4684 4684.07 $1,090,184

International International

Development

5720 5720.06 U.S. Agency for World Vision 3220 291.06 Kenya AIDS $0

International Kenya Treatment and

Development Support for

OVCs

Emphasis Areas

Gender

* Addressing male norms and behaviors

* Increasing gender equity in HIV/AIDS programs

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 $639,069

Water

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