This activity is related to activity 5444. This activity will implement a leadership and training conference for 45 girls aged 13-18 in 7 provinces nationwide, focusing on acquisition of leadership and decision-making skills and how to implement them in the context of HIV-prevention. This empowerment program will instruct participants on design and implementation of community-based follow-up activities using the skills learned in the leadership conference. The activity anticipates funding these follow-up activities, enhancing the scope and breadth of the activity.

This activity is related to activity 5445. This activity will provide small grants to community-based organizations and schools for community-level AB initiatives. The supported events, all of which will have an A/B focus, will include, but not be limited to, community & school-based theatre, dance and music group productions; debates; health fairs, sports teams and sports events; training of trainer events for activists, peer educators, media staff and others; focus-group training on life skills; support for A/B materials development; and income generating activities and skills training for young girls, poor women and OVCs who might otherwise turn to transactional sex for financial gain. The messaging will be focused on encouraging behavior change for A/B and also will address gender-based norms and practices that promote unsafe behavior.

A majority of the community-based projects will have support from Peace Corps volunteers.

This activity is related to activity 5446. The Embassy Public Affairs Office will continue to provide grants for developing radio (especially community radio), television, and/or film products targeting young people nationally with messages promoting and supporting abstinence and faithfulness. Radio is especially important in Mozambique as it is the means of mass communication able to reach the largest portion of the population due to isolation, illiteracy, lack of electricity, etc. Reinforcing the ideals of abstinence and faithfulness in this medium nationally with locally produced messages youth can relate to has a great potential to effect normative as well as individual behavior change.

This activity will integrate AB prevention messages and training in the widely watched and extremely popular "FAMA Show" reality TV program (the Mozambican version of American Idol) on Soico Television (STV - a local TV channel). This can include but is not limited to AB promotion for the participants (aired during the week), song contests related to HIV/AIDS and a World AIDS Day show.

This activity is related to activity 5445. This activity will implement a conference for 40 boys aged 13-17 in 8 provinces nationwide, developing knowledge of gender theory, critical thinking, and life-skills - confronting the complex social issues that drive the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Mozambique. Students will learn to communicate through theatre, print and broadcast journalism, documentary photography or public murals, while teachers develop the capacity to implement these skills in follow-up micro-projects, enhancing the scope and breadth of this activity.

A related activity also taking place in FY07 using funding from activity 5445 (FY06) are the school and community-based micro-projects that students and teachers at the 17 secondary schools that participated in the 1st JOMA Boys Conference. These micro-projects will be carried out in the following areas: theater, community art, gardening and documentation/journalism. Groups of interested students will meet regularly to discuss issues of HIV and gender and how these relate to their communities. Based on these regular meetings and discussions, groups will develop activities (theater presentations, debates, student newsletters, community bulletin boards, murals, nutrition workshops, etc) to convey messages of HIV awareness and gender equality to their schools/communities. Documentation of micro-project successes and challenges will be collected in a JOMA Project 2006 Yearbook and distributed to participants and partners.

These activities will take place twice in FY07. The first time with funding from activity 5445 (FY06) in the beginning of FY07 the second one towards the end of FY07.

This activity is related to activity 5445. This activity will train 10 girls as peer educators. The girls will be chosen from the community and taught HIV/AIDS information, benefits of abstinence and faithfulness, gender and development, leadership and activist strategies. Each will work in a designated place in the community twice a week facilitating debaters, interpersonal campaigns, lectures, etc. on the above mentioned topics. The girls will also meet on a weekly basis to create a communication and support network for the activists and to enhance their own knowledge and understanding of the issues.

This activity is a continuation of activity 5445. This activity will train the members of a capoeira group (a Brazilian fight dance) the benefits of Absitinence and Faithfulness. Exceptional members will be appointed group leaders that will in turn lead small school wide workshops promoting and supporting AB reaching the entire school population.

This activity is the continuation of activity 5446. This activity will develop radio programs in Zambezia Province in 3 languages (Portuguese, Elomue and Chuabo) promoting behavior change, specifically abstinence and faithfulness, reduction of stigma and raise awareness of OVC's through programs, live transmissions, debates and competitions.

This activity is a continuation of activity 5446. This activity involves the development of HIV/AIDS awareness songs and messages, radio programs, live music shows, development and distribution of a free newspaper, discussions and lectures in schools, and the creation of a youth group to be trained as activists and peer educators focusing on the promotion of abstinence and faithfulness.

This activity is a continuation of activity 5446. This activity involves the development of radio programs including a radio novela and radio debates promoting HIV/AIDS awareness, abstinence and faithfulness and counseling and testing.

This activity is related to activity 1422. This activity will develop radio and/or TV and film products targeting young people nationally with messages promoting and supporting abstinence and faithfulness. Radio is especially important in Mozambique as it is the means of mass communication able to reach the largest portion of the population due to isolation, illiteracy, lack of electricity, etc. Reinforcing the ideals of abstinence and faithfulness in this medium nationally with locally produced messages youth can relate to has a great potential to effect normative as well as individual behavior change.

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This activity will train and mobilize journalists and community leaders in HIV/AIDS issues (including stigma), communication skills, and HIV/AIDS leadership. Specific activities include: a. Training of 25-50 journalists and peer leaders through regional or US-based training programs; and b. Training and mobilizing 10-15 returned International Visitor Leadership Program exchange participants and funding 1-3 programs initiated by those participants.

This activity originated on FY05 though the first leadership conference and journalist training only took place in FY06 due to a funding delay. In FY07 we plan on carrying out these activities twice - with FY06 funding and again with FY07 funding. These activities are crucial in Mozambique not only in engendering bold leadership in the face of the AIDS epidemic and ensuring that the leaders and potential leaders of Mozambique have an accurate and updated understanding of HIV and AIDS (including issues of stigma, but also transmission and prevention, etc.) but also to give the same information to the journalists (especially from community radios) that have the greatest potential to reach a larger portion of the population with accurate and sensitized information.

The expected outcomes of these activities is greater depth and accuracy in HIV/AIDS reports and stories in the media allowing greater dissemination of accurate information to the population in general and encouraging a move away from the simple reporting of statistics. As for the leadership aspect the expected outcome is an increase in visible leadership by the participants in regards to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

A related activity is a follow-on from FY05 activities and funding - a follow-up grant that will take place in FY07 available to the participants of the first leadership conference. The chosen proposal from the Municipal Council of Beira involves the opening of an OVC centre - Window of Hope Centre - with the support of widowed and vulnerable women. The centre would provide OVC's with nutritional supplements, hygiene material, psycho-social support (children's clubs and committees and sports field) and scholastic support (scholastic material, a field to teach them basic agriculture) and vocational training as well as birth registration. The centre will be self-sustainable through the raising of chickens, ducks, pigeons, goats, pigs and cows and have a source of income through the existence of a grinding mill.