This is a continuing activity under COP08 with the following new component.

Community radio programs aimed at Couples: Food for the Hungry will use $40,000 of Field Support to

create and broadcast community radio programs aimed at Mozambican couples. Issues to be addressed

can include: multiple, concurrent partnerships, discordancy, HIV testing and couples counseling and testing,

disclosure related domestic violence, family planning and condom use, couples communication,

faithfulness, widow cleansing, gender related issues, and positive living. This activity is linked to ABc.

The FY2007 reprogramming narrative below has not been changed.

This continuing Field Support funded activity will allow Track One AB Partner, Food for the Hungry to

implement its Field supported AB program, "Capable to Decide: Enabling youth and high risk populations to

make healthy sexual choices in Beira and Caia districts in Sofala, Mozambique". This program has three

main components:

1) Continue expansion of FFHI's ABY program to provide youth, adults, and higher risk individuals with the

skills to make healthy and informed choices about their sexual relationships, utilizing the 12-session Choose

Life curriculum. Reduction of transactional sex, cross-generational sex, and mutual faithfulness/reduction of

multiple and concurrent sexual partnerships will be focus issues.

(Beira district, Sofala province)

2) Continue to provide sexually active individuals and couples in married or cohabitating relationships the

skills to practice mutual faithfulness and to know their HIV status using supplementary "B" curriculum

developed in FY07.

(Beira and Caia districts-Sofala province)

3) The third component of Capable to Decide is to respond to sexual coercion, violence, cross-generational

and transactional sex and other unhealthy sexual behaviors and practices, especially those presented by

construction of the Zambezi bridge in Caia, Sofala. Activities include cooperating with local busineses to

form an association centered around prevention and control of child prostitution, forming and enforcing a

code of ethics, and facilitating sexual abuse prevention training. Specific focus is placed on employees of

the National Road Association and other institutions employing large numbers of men to construct the

bridge. Commercial sex workers are offered training in safer sex, decision making, referrals for medical

check-ups and HIV counseling and testing. They are given skills through formation of savings groups and

business management training. Other beneficiaries include teachers, church leaders, and community

leaders who will be trained and then asked to organize community prevention and sexual abuse response

plans.

(Caia, Sofala province)

Caia district is the site for the new Zambezi Bridge construction project, estimated for completion in 2009,

and site of the February 2007 flood disaster. Projected studies from Save the Children UK warn of threats

of increased child prostitution, rape, and other sexual abuse linked to the influx of mobile workers in rural,

impoverished districts. Caia district is part of the Transport Corridor due to its location on the national

highway and ferry service across the Zambezi river. According to Save the Children UK's studies,

Barracas, the informal and privately managed businesses of sleeping quarters, stores, and bars along the

river and near the construction, have helped to create a "culture of sexual abuse and exploitation in the form

of child prostitution, as well as wide-spread child labor and incidents of physical abuse" in the river crossing

area. HIV prevalence in Caia is above 20%.