ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION:

In COP07, Hope Worldwide Nigeria (HWWN) reached a total of 8,531 individuals with AB messages and

4,582 youths with abstinence only messages. In COP08, HWWN will reach 15,000 individuals with

messages on abstinence (5,518) only. In line with current guidance by USG prevention team, in COP08, a

minimum package of interventions will be employed to reach individuals with reinforced messages. Every

individual will be reached with a minimum of three interventions. HWW will ensure that each beneficiary is

reached through community awareness campaigns, peer education models and peer education plus

interventions that will involve usage of role models and sports activities. National mass media campaigns

initiated by other partners will be reinforced in a school based approach where appropriate. These

approaches will also be adopted at our 54 service outlets including schools and communities where

Community Action Teams are still active and regularly reach many people.

In COP07, the HWWN activities were located in Lagos state at four sites (Epe, Ikorodu, Badagry and

Shomolu Local Government Areas), with six schools and four FBOs reached. In COP08, the program will

still be present in these four sites in Lagos state and will expand to eight new schools and six FBOs.

In view of the fact that Badagry falls within the border area where sexual activity and HIV prevalence are

high, more school students will be targeted in eight new secondary schools with messages on abstinence to

prevent new infections. Principals, teachers and parents will be encouraged to support the community

action teams that will be formed to sustain the program in schools and in the communities.

Partner and Peer Educator training will be conducted at our Badagry and Shomolu sites. In COP08, 100

youths will be trained to deliver abstinence and faithfulness prevention messages to their peers in their

respective communities and 50 adults, mainly parents, will be trained on parenting to improve parent-child

communication especially on adolescent health and reproductive issues. This will result in a total of 150

people to be newly trained in COP08.

Training of Master Trainers on parent empowerment will be organized centrally to include selected teachers

from all the four sites. The training will further enhance parent-child communication in homes and teacher-

student communication in the communities and further reinforce sustainability of the program.

Under our School-based approach, Community Action Teams (CAT) have been used as a strategy to

sustain messages and the program will pursue this methodology to ensure that there is support for the

program and young people making healthy choices. In previous COPs, 41 CATs were formed in each of the

schools reached, in COP08, eight new CATs will be formed to sustain messages in the new communities to

be reached. It is anticipated that the newly trained teachers on curricular delivery under this program in

Badagry local government area will step the skills down to selected students, who in turn will form the local

monitoring teams.

Significant changes have been recorded due to activities of CAT members and trained peer educators. In

2007, most of the CAT members in all the four sites volunteered to serve the Orphans and Vulnerable

Children (OVC) through formation and running of OVC kids clubs in their respective communities. At the

camp recently organized by the OVC program, trained peer educators among the OVCs delivered

curriculum-based abstinence skills to their peers. These significant occurrences demonstrate the

sustenance of positive behavior by youths.

A Men As Partners (MAP) approach will continued to be employed to engage unmarried young people and

parents through workshops in schools, churches and communities to address norms/behaviours

surrounding masculinity, early sexual debut, cross-generational and transactional sex. Young people will

also be trained under this methodology to counsel and refer victims of sexual abuse and violence. Local

monitoring teams called CAT will be formally introduced to the communities for recognition of their role in

promoting sanctions against sexual and physical violence. Ten MAP workshops will be conducted and men

will be invited to participate in the formation of the CAT.

HIV testing will be promoted during community, school, church and clinic-based sessions through Voluntary

and Counseling Testing (VCT) campaigns to encourage knowledge of status, reaching 2,256 people with

VCT messages. Churches, schools and the community at large will be encouraged to test and make

decisions about faithfulness and abstinence.

In COP08 the program will ensure that the target audience is reached with a minimum package of three

interventions that will include, community awareness campaign, school-based approach, peer education

model and peer education plus.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO OVERALL PROGRAM AREA:

AB activities in Lagos; Ikorodu, Epe, Badagry and Shomolu will contribute immensely to the overall

Emergency Plan AB target for Nigeria in that, the sites chosen are semi-urban areas with Badagry being a

border community where sexual activity is believed to be high. As efforts will be made to scale up the work

in these hard to reach rural areas around these communities, indigenous CBOs, FBOs and schools will be

invited to strengthen behavior change in youth, community commitment and reduction of gender-based

violence.

Other community structures like Community Development Associations, Market Women Groups and other

groups will be mobilized to create a more supportive normative environment for the practice of abstinence

and fidelity.

LINKS TO OTHER ACTIVITIES:

HWW will collaborate with government owned health centers and other programs that provide HIV testing to

complement the effort of the campaign by providing HIV testing services to our target audience. This

vulnerable audience will be referred to these centers for counseling and testing. AB activities will also work

together with the OVC program to provide curriculum-based abstinence skills to OVC at camps organized

for the OVC- 3.3.08(HKID).

POPULATIONS BEING TARGETED:

The primary target audiences under this program are young unmarried people; boys and girls aged 10-24

years. Others are adult men and women, including those of reproductive age, teachers and religious

leaders.

Activity Narrative:

EMPHASIS AREAS:

Emphasis areas include addressing male norms and behavior (gender) and human capacity development

through training activities in which structured curriculum is used to provide trainings on delivery of

abstinence skills to selected individuals by trained staff. These trained individuals can as well step the

acquired skills down to their peers in their respective communities.

The program addresses Stigma and Discrimination and Gender issues (by addressing male norms and

behaviors, reducing violence and sexual coercion).

ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION:

HOPE Worldwide Nigeria (HWWN) is presently in 25 communities in 4 Local Government Areas in Lagos

State (Epe, Shomolu, Ikorodu and Badagry). By the end of COP08, HWWN will strengthen the OVC

response in 20 new communities in the above mentioned LGAs to provide care and support to Orphaned

and Vulnerable Children (OVC). BCC materials will be produced to further sensitize the communities about

the OVC situation and how to respond. 8 new community/faith-based organizations (CBO/FBO) will receive

training and mentoring to reach 325 OVC each totaling 2600 by means of upstream activities. HWWN's

capacity building for benefiting CBO/FBO will include the following; How to attract more wrap-around

funding for programs, Documentation and Communication, Services to OVC and Networking. Trained

organizations will provide services such as psychosocial support, counseling, health education and income

generation for OVC and care givers.

Trained organizations in FY08 will respond to a call for proposal by HWWN to provide care and support to

OVC. Trained CBO/FBO who have proven capacity to scale up their activities, reach a lot more children

and have the structure and capacity to manage funds will be awarded sub-grants. Sub grants will range

from $1000-$20000. Sequel to the award, organizations will continue to receive ongoing mentoring and

supervision of activities by HWWN as they serve 5000 OVC.

In FY08 15 new kids club and 10 support groups consisting of newly identified OVC will be established in

each of the new communities through CBO/FBO whilst the existing 25 kids clubs will be strengthened.

Psychosocial support covering kids club, support groups, preparing memory books, counseling services and

provision of life skill education through a camp for 400 children will be done. Through Vocational and

economic strengthening activities that will be provided by professional volunteers, marketable skills will be

acquired by OVC and will be linked with organizations who can assist them to make use of these skills

profitably. Skills like carpentry, tailoring etc. will be provided and the activity will primarily target child headed

households. Formal education and school based programs covering school enrolment (especially girls, who

are most at risk of leaving school in order to care for sick family members), school supplies and free

uniforms will be provided as well to the OVC. Child Care Forum (CCF) which comprises key community

stakeholders such as village chiefs, youth leaders, local government and health workers as well as any

other relevant stakeholder will be formed in the new communities and existing ones fortified with more

influential members. Through these services, 2000 OVC will receive direct primary service and 2400

supplemental direct services.

HWWN will introduce a new strategy for servicing children by training home visitors. Home visitors are

individuals living in the same community as OVC who make regular visits to OVC and their households to

provide care and support. These visitors partially fulfill some of the roles of a parent, giving the children the

psychosocial support of someone who cares about their well-being, assisting with household chores or

responsibilities beyond the skills or strength of the children, and providing adult wisdom and counsel to help

address problems, fears or issues the children may be facing. The home visitor can help fill these roles

even while parents are alive. In each of the 4 Anchor sites, 10 volunteers will be trained as home visitors.

This will ensure quality services to the children, better monitoring and access to services for identified

children.

HWWN local partners under the program (Coca cola and the Rotarians For Fighting AIDS) will assist in

upgrading public schools that will in turn provide levy free education for OVC. The program will leverage

National Programs like NAPEP, UBE, NDE and school feeding programs and other USG ABC programs.

HIV positive OVC will be referred to other USG partners for appropriate treatment while the program will

continue to provide psychosocial support. In FY08 2000 OVC will be reached through direct primary

services, 2400 supplemental direct, 5000 by sub grantees and 2600 through indirect services. A total of

12000 OVC & 1120 parents will be reached with 200 caregivers trained in caring for OVC in COP08 in the 4

sites in Lagos State.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO OVERALL PROGRAM AREA:

The activities mentioned above contribute substantively to USAID Nigeria's 5-Year Strategy emphasis of

providing community support services to at least 25 percent of children affected by AIDS and the National

Action Plan to scale-up the national response to OVC, building on previous and existing experiences to

reach more children, with more services over a longer period of time.

POPULATIONS BEING TARGETED:

This activity targets orphans and vulnerable children, caregivers of OVC and PLWHA and community-based

organizations. The target population will be reached through the strategies listed above.

EMPHASIS AREAS:

The main thrust of the program in COP08 will be on Community Mobilization. This activity includes an

emphasis on human resources, capacity building and local organization capacity building. Efforts will be put

into training, linkages with other sectors and initiatives. This activity will increase gender equity in

programming through capacity building, economic strengthening and empowerment for caregivers, which

are mostly women. Information and Education materials will be used to promote positive behavior that will

help to reduce stigma and discrimination. Men's groups will also be targeted and mobilized through linkages

with AB program existing in the program sites.