Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2010 2011

Details for Mechanism ID: 12068
Country/Region: Kenya
Year: 2011
Main Partner: National Organization of Peer Educators
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: NGO
Funding Agency: HHS/CDC
Total Funding: $0

NOPE-NPI Scaling up HIV AIDS Prevention will reach 120,000 individuals with abstinence and being faithful messages along two transport belts Namanga-Kajiado-Kiserian and Kangemi-Limuru-Narok-Kisii. They will employ a 360 degree Model of Protection that seeks to delay first sex and increase secondary abstinence among youth aged10-24 years, increase safer sexual practices among sexually active youth and reduction of multiple concurrent partnerships. Most-at-risk groups along hotspots on identified belts will be provided with a minimum package of services as per national guidelines. Other sub-groups to be reached will include vulnerable women in low resource settings, teachers, health care providers, the clergy and religious leaders and PLWHA for positive prevention. The model targets families, schools, health facilities, places of worship and communities by developing activities that build the capacity of the populations to establish and maintain healthy behaviors. It addresses cultural determinants to that promote low-risk behavior. The model aims to encompass individuals with a supportive environment at every level of their lives (family, peers, school and community). 800 individuals will be trained to provide AB programs in the different groups. The AB program will be implemented by FBO sub-partners and other NGO/CBOs to integrate life skills programs for HIV/AIDS prevention, drug and alcohol abuse. In addition, NPI SHAP will work with the Ministry of Education,Kenya Network of Positive Teachers and use the Kenya Adolescent Reproductive Health (KARHP) strategy to reach out to more youth in and out of learning institutions. The activity will expand the youth peer education interventions using the Y-Peer approach established by Youth-Net and UNFPA; work with the Provincial Education Office, Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) to roll out life-skills peer education programs to schools along the project belt; and work with tertiary training colleges, polytechnics and universities to integrate HIV/AIDS education using the 'I Choose Life' approach and NOPE's Ambassadors of Change (AOC) approach. Referrals and linkages will be established to increase access to treatment and other services. Particular attention will be given to addressing Gender based violence prevention and mitigation. In support of the US-Kenya Partnership Framework and GHI principles, NOPE will integrate Gender-based violence (GBV) prevention targeting female commercial sex workers, MSM and law enforcement personnel and other stakeholders in all project sites.

Funding for Sexual Prevention: Abstinence/Be Faithful (HVAB): $0

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Key Issues Identified in Mechanism
Increasing women's access to income and productive resources