Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2008 2009

Details for Mechanism ID: 8682
Country/Region: South Africa
Year: 2009
Main Partner: Education Labour Relations Council
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: Host Country Government Agency
Funding Agency: HHS/CDC
Total Funding: $1,305,867

Funding for Sexual Prevention: Abstinence/Be Faithful (HVAB): $453,898

ACTIVITY HAS BEEN MODIFIED IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS:

Education Labour Relations Council (ELRC) has made the following enhancements to the COP 2008

narrative:

Activity 2: Training Peer Educators for Teachers Unions

While recruitment and training of master trainers and peer educators was conducted in the initial phase of

the project (FY2007-FY2008), in FY 2009 PEPFAR funds will be used to conduct audits of master trainers

and peer educators to identify where to replenish training resources. New testing procedures will also be

implemented to ensure consistency in the quality of training. At the end of each master trainer and peer

education workshop, participants will be required to take a test to demonstrate their knowledge of the

curriculum. Those master trainers and peer educators who do not have a satisfactory score will be

prioritized for refresher courses. Those who fail a second time will be removed from the project. New

training efforts will focus on the supervision and management of peer education services and the

development of advanced peer education skills. These advanced peer education skills will be needed as the

project evolves from merely raising teacher awareness about HIV and AIDS to addressing the social

attitudes that contribute to the spread of HIV like multiple and concurrent sexual partners. PEPFAR funds

will also be used in FY 2009 to develop a central database that stores contact information, test scores and

performance ratings of master trainers and peer educators to assist in the supervision of peer education

and outreach activities.

Activity 3: Community Mobilization and Outreach

The ELRC's Prevention Care and Treatment Access (PCTA) project's past mobilization efforts have

demonstrated that on-site outreach activities are the most effective method for delivering prevention

messages to adult educators. Support from principals is critical to conducting outreach activities at schools.

Consequently, the ELRC-PCTA will collaborate with the Department of Education to facilitate training of

school principals to sensitize them on the prevention, abstinence and being faithful curriculum, so that

principals will support peer education being conducted in schools. Working with principals and union

officials peer educators will use technology (DVDs on abstinence and being faithful (AB) messages) to

supplement face-to-face interactions with teachers during breaks and after school. Emphasis will be given

to those districts where HIV prevalence among educators is highest.

Beginning in FY 2008, the ELRC-PCTA will also coordinate with the Department of Education at the

national, provincial and district levels to conduct advocacy campaigns on AB prevention that address the

social norms that facilitate the spread of HIV among adults. Peer educators will develop linkages with

department of education representatives at the provincial and district levels so that they can share best

practices, lessons learned, coordinate mobilization events and harmonize prevention messages that

reinforce mutual monogamy.

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SUMMARY:

This activity is a component of a comprehensive prevention education, care and treatment program for

small to medium enterprises (SMEs) with 20-200 employees and other workplaces in South Africa. It

includes activities in CT, Policy Analysis and Systems Strengthening, and Condoms and Other Prevention.

With an estimate of 12.3 million learners in South Africa, served by 386,600 teachers and more than 26,000

schools managing a response to HIV and AIDS across the education sector requires a comprehensive and

substantial effort. Efforts must include a focus on both learners and educators if the impact of HIV is to be

mitigated; and it must be recognized that any efforts focused on learners via the education sector cannot

succeed without educators also being addressed. The Education Labour Relations Council (ELRC) will

implement a comprehensive HIV and AIDS workplace program for the education sector of South Africa.

BACKGROUND:

ELRC is a statutory council which serves the South African education sector nationwide and is comprised of

the public sector, the national and provincial departments of education, the private sector and teacher

unions representing all primary and secondary public school educators. The ELRC works as an interface

between the Department of Education (DOE) and labor organizations for labor peace and a vision of

contributing towards the transformation and development of a quality South African public education

system. A 2005 Health of Our Educators Report found that 50% of all teacher attrition is linked to

complications of HIV and AIDS, resulting in 4000 teachers being lost each year due to AIDS. The general

prevalence rate among educators was found to closely parallel that of the national population with an

estimate of 12.7% of all DOE employed educators living with HIV. Based on the findings of this report and

with FY 2007 and FY 2008 PEPFAR funding ELRC will implement a country-wide project to educators living

with and affected by HIV and AIDS. The target group for this project is teachers, including those living with

HIV or those who have family members living with HIV. This is a workplace intervention with minor

emphasis areas in information, education and communication, community mobilization, and the

development of linkages and networks. A particular focus of this project is the greater involvement of

people with AIDS. ELRC will work with HIV positive teachers to ensure they can serve as role models to

fellow teachers and to learners.

ACTIVITIES AND EXPECTED RESULTS:

ACTIVITY 1: Development of Workplace Prevention Education

PEPFAR funds will be used to support the development of a comprehensive education sector prevention

program targeting teachers and education sector union members. Funds will also be used to support

Activity Narrative: workplace prevention education programs targeting the health and education sector. With funding from

PEPFAR, these workplace programs will conduct training sessions for employers, senior management,

senior union leadership and employees on the basic facts of HIV transmission, prevention, and impact of

HIV and AIDS on the industry. Peer educators for unions in the education sector will receive ongoing

training on prevention (especially abstinence and being faithful), PMTCT, stigma and discrimination,

counseling and testing, palliative care, and access to treatment. The goal of the peer education is to

increase workers' knowledge about HIV and AIDS prevention, care and treatment with the purpose of

changing their attitudes and practices and modifying behavior to prevent HIV infections and reduce violence

and coercion (key legislative issue).

Activity 2: Training of peer educators for teachers unions

Working in nine provinces, peer educators from four teachers' unions will be identified and trained peer

educators. Training will focus on prevention, particularly AB messages. A structure will be set up to

support the peer educators and ensure quality assurance for the one-on-one interactions and community

mobilization activities that they will be expected to participate in.

Activity 2: Community Mobilization

The newly trained peer educators will reach teachers in their unions with AB prevention messages. The

focus of the AB messaging for teachers already involved in relationships will be the B component. The peer

educators will distribute IEC materials, organize mobilization events, campaign messages and conduct one-

on-one interactions with teachers and/or their families.

This activity will directly contribute to PEPFAR's goal of preventing 7 million new infections. These activities

support the USG Five-Year Strategy for South Africa by expanding and improving quality AB prevention

programs.

New/Continuing Activity: Continuing Activity

Continuing Activity: 19442

Continued Associated Activity Information

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

System ID System ID

19442 19442.08 HHS/Centers for Education Labour 8682 8682.08 $550,000

Disease Control & Relations Council

Prevention

Emphasis Areas

Gender

* Increasing gender equity in HIV/AIDS programs

Workplace Programs

Human Capacity Development

Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Human Capacity Development $194,013

Public Health Evaluation

Food and Nutrition: Policy, Tools, and Service Delivery

Food and Nutrition: Commodities

Economic Strengthening

Education

Water

Table 3.3.02:

Funding for Sexual Prevention: Other Sexual Prevention (HVOP): $480,598

ACTIVITY HAS BEEN MODIFIED IN THE FOLLOWING WAYS:

ACTIVITY 1: Distribution of Male and Female Condoms

Participant reactions in training workshops indicate a real enthusiasm and genuine curiosity about female

condoms. In many instances, the Education Labor Relations Council Prevention, Care and Treatment

Access (ELRC-PCTA) workshop participants are exposed to female condoms for the first time. Given the

positive reactions particularly from female educators, in FY 2009, the ELRC-PCTA will increase its

procurement of female condoms. Union partners will also engage in campaigns to promote the use of

female condoms among their members. The ELRC-PCTA anticipates that the greater availability of female

condoms will increase usage among women and reduce reliance on male condoms, thereby promoting long

-term behavior change.

As such, the curriculum for master trainers will be expanded to include training on condom storage, supply

management and brand preference. Specifically, master trainers will be equipped with tools on tracking

defective condoms and strategies for selection of condom distribution sites. In addition, the training module

on prevention through other behavior change will be strengthened by adding peer education techniques on

how to identify high-risk behavior and how to transfer knowledge on condom negotiation. Building off of the

National Association of Trade Union's (NATU's) success in KwaZulu-Natal, the ELRC-PCTA will encourage

other unions to negotiate with provincial Department of Education (DOE) representatives on distribution of

condoms to learners 18 years and older.

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SUMMARY:

This activity is a component of a comprehensive prevention education, care and treatment program for

small to medium enterprises (SMEs) with 20-200 employees and other workplaces in South Africa. It

includes activities in CT, Policy Analysis and Systems Strengthening, and Abstinence and Be Faithful.

With an estimate of 12.3 million learners in South Africa, served by 386,600 teachers and more than 26,000

schools managing a response to HIV and AIDS across the education sector requires a comprehensive and

substantial effort. Efforts must include a focus on both learners and educators if the impact of HIV is to be

mitigated; and it must be recognized that any efforts focused on learners via the education sector cannot

succeed without educators also being addressed. The Education Labour Relations Council (ELRC) will

implement a comprehensive HIV and AIDS workplace program for the education sector of South Africa.

BACKGROUND:

ELRC is a statutory council which serves the South African education sector nationwide and is comprised of

the public sector, the national and provincial departments of education, the private sector and teacher

unions representing all primary and secondary public school educators. The ELRC works as an interface

between the Department of Education (DOE) and labor organizations for labor peace and a vision of

contributing towards the transformation and development of a quality South African public education

system. A 2005 Health of Our Educators Report found that 50% of all teacher attrition is linked to

complications of HIV and AIDS, resulting in 4000 teachers being lost each year due to AIDS. The general

prevalence rate among educators was found to closely parallel that of the national population with an

estimate of 12.7% of all DOE employed educators living with HIV. Based on the findings of this report and

with FY 2007and FY 2008 PEPFAR funding ELRC will implement a country-wide project in all 9 South

African provinces to educators living with and affected by HIV and AIDS. The target group for this project is

teachers, including those living with HIV or those who have family members living with HIV. This is a

workplace intervention with minor emphasis areas in information, education and communication, community

mobilization, and the development of linkages and networks. A particular focus of this project is the greater

involvement of people with AIDS. ELRC will work with HIV-infected teachers to ensure they can serve as

role models to fellow teachers and to learners.

ACTIVITIES AND EXPECTED RESULTS:

ACTIVITY 1: Distribution of male and female condoms

ELRC will work with its four sub partners to ensure that 150 physical sites in the education sector are

established to distribute male and female condoms. This will ensure that male and female teachers can

assess condoms in their workplace. In addition to condom distribution points, IEC materials will be

distributed focusing on correct and consistent condom usage and condoms as a HIV prevention strategy.

ACTIVITY 2: Development of Workplace Prevention Education

PEPFAR funds will be used to support the development of a comprehensive education sector prevention

program targeting teachers and education sector union members. Funds will also be used to support

workplace prevention education programs targeting the health and education sector. With funding from

PEPFAR, these workplace programs will conduct training sessions for employers, senior management,

senior union leadership and employees on the basic facts of HIV transmission, prevention, and impact of

HIV and AIDS on the industry. Peer educators for unions in the education sector will receive ongoing

training on prevention, condoms as an HIV prevention strategy, PMTCT, stigma and discrimination (a key

legislative issue), counseling and testing, palliative care, and access to treatment. The goal of the peer

education is to increase workers' knowledge about HIV and AIDS prevention, care and treatment with the

purpose of changing their attitudes and practices and modifying behavior to prevent HIV infections and

reduce violence and coercion (key legislative issue).

ACTIVITY 3: Training of peer educators for teachers unions

Peer educators from 3 teachers' unions will be identified and trained peer educators. Training will focus on

Activity Narrative: all aspects of HIV prevention. A structure will be set up to support the peer educators and ensure quality

assurance for the one-on-one interactions and community mobilization activities that they will be expected

to participate in.

ACTIVITY 4: Community Mobilization

The newly trained peer educators will reach teachers in their unions with prevention messages. The peer

educators will distribute IEC materials, organize mobilization events, campaign messages and conduct one-

on-one interactions with teachers and/or their families.

Note that for targets, the numbers of people reached with prevention messages are counted under AB

rather than OP.

This activity will directly contribute to PEPFAR's goal of preventing 7 million new infections. These activities

support the USG Five-Year Strategy for South Africa by expanding and improving quality AB prevention

programs.

New/Continuing Activity: Continuing Activity

Continuing Activity: 19446

Continued Associated Activity Information

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

System ID System ID

19446 19446.08 HHS/Centers for Education Labour 8682 8682.08 $550,000

Disease Control & Relations Council

Prevention

Emphasis Areas

Gender

* Increasing gender equity in HIV/AIDS programs

Workplace Programs

Human Capacity Development

Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Human Capacity Development $205,425

Public Health Evaluation

Food and Nutrition: Policy, Tools, and Service Delivery

Food and Nutrition: Commodities

Economic Strengthening

Education

Water

Table 3.3.03:

Funding for Testing: HIV Testing and Counseling (HVCT): $371,371

ACTIVITY HAS BEEN MODIFIED IN THE FOLLOWING WAY:

ACTIVITY 1: Training master trainers and lay counselors

In FY 2008, the Academy for Educational Development (AED) will design and introduce a training module

on tuberculosis (TB) testing to supplement the existing training materials to ensure that master trainers and

lay counselors are skilled in the screening procedures for tuberculosis. In FY 2009, the scope of lay

counselor training will be expanded to provide accredited training on couple counseling. The purpose of

this voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) training will be to prevent transmission in serodiscordant

couples and promote fidelity among concordant negative couples. Potential lay counselors will also be

identified and recruited from experienced peer educators.

ACTIVITY 2: VCT services

Educator-specific incentives will be developed and distributed to encourage more testing at outreach

events. For example, pencil boxes featuring the Education Labour Relations Council Prevention, Care and

Treatment Access (ELRC-PCTA) logo and displaying, "I know my HIV status," will be available at peer

education workshops and union meetings.

ACTIVITY 3: Fostering linkages with treatment, care and support

Referral systems will be improved by monitoring and coordination of VCT services through the ELRC-PCTA

secretariat. The ELRC-PCTA will strengthen its relationship with its national treatment partner Tshepang

Trust, but also encourage unions to develop relationships with local VCT providers. Tshepang Trust will

also add TB screening to its menu of services and provide data regarding the number of educators

screened for TB.

ACTIVITY 4: Addressing stigma and discrimination

Union leaders will be trained in treatment literacy, stigma and discrimination towards educators and

learners. These union leaders will then be responsible for distributing information, education and

communications (IEC) materials focused on treatment literacy, stigma and discrimination as well as

conducting workshops to address these issues. The Department of Education national and provincial teams

will also receive induction training workshops in treatment literacy, stigma and discrimination.

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SUMMARY:

The voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) activity is a component of integrated service delivery activities

through the training of peer education and lay counselors in the workplace; and relates to activities in

prevention/abstinence and being faithful as well as condom distribution and sexually transmitted infection

program. This activity is a component of a comprehensive prevention education, care and treatment

program and activities are described in AB, Policy Analysis and Systems Strengthening, and Condoms and

Other Prevention. With an estimate of 12.3 million learners in South Africa, served by 386,600 teachers

and more than 26,000 schools managing a response to HIV and AIDS across the education sector requires

a comprehensive and substantial effort. Efforts must include a focus on both learners and educators if the

impact of HIV is to be mitigated; and it must be recognized that any efforts focused on learners via the

education sector cannot succeed without educators also being addressed. The Education Labour Relations

Council (ELRC) will implement a comprehensive HIV and AIDS workplace program for the education sector

of South Africa.

BACKGROUND:

ELRC is a statutory council which serves the South African education sector nationwide and is comprised of

the public sector, the national and provincial departments of education, the private sector and teacher

unions representing all primary and secondary public school educators. The ELRC works as an interface

between the Department of Education (DOE) and labor organizations for labor peace and a vision of

contributing towards the transformation and development of a quality South African public education

system. A 2005 Health of Our Educators Report found that 50% of all teacher attrition is linked to

complications of HIV and AIDS, resulting in 4000 teachers being lost each year due to AIDS. The general

prevalence rate among educators was found to closely parallel that of the national population with an

estimate of 12.7% of all DOE employed educators living with HIV. Based on the findings of this report and

with FY 2007 and FY 2008 PEPFAR funding ELRC will implement a country-wide project in all 9 South

African provinces to educators living with and affected by HIV and AIDS. The target group for this project is

teachers, including those living with HIV or those who have family members living with HIV. This is a

workplace intervention with minor emphasis areas in information, education and communication, community

mobilization, and the development of linkages and networks. A particular focus of this project is the greater

involvement of people with AIDS. ELRC will work with HIV-infected teachers to ensure they can serve as

role models to fellow teachers and to learners.

ACTIVITIES AND EXPECTED RESULTS:

ACTIVITY 1: Training Master Trainers and Lay Counselors

Master trainers and lay counselors will receive training on rapid test protocols and VCT. The Master

trainers will be responsible for training lay counselors within their educational sector unions as well as

increasing the demand for and acceptance of VCT services.

ACTIVITY 2: VCT Services

Activity Narrative: This activity will provide access to VCT services for teachers and their families. Services will include

training, support and supervision of counselors. Peer educators within the education sector will promote

HIV counseling and testing as a strategy to prevent HIV. The peer educator will also raise awareness about

local community VCT Centers to increase the uptake and accessibility of counseling and testing. For those

who test positive, trained lay counselors will offer counseling on how to live with HIV, as well as strategies to

mitigate stigma and discrimination in the workplace and education sector.

ACTIVITY 3: Fostering linkages to treatment, care and support

ELRC will work with the implementing education sector unions providing VCT to ensure that linkages with

treatment, care and support services are established. ELRC will ensure, via the implementation of a

tracking system that all educators testing positive will be provided with referrals as needed. In addition, lay

counselors will work with the union to track educations who have been referred and to ensure that they

receive the services that they have been referred for. ELRC will develop a comprehensive provincial-based

directory of services. This directory will be geared towards educators and their families and will be

distributed via the union structures.

These accomplishments will directly contribute to the realization of PEPFAR's goal to prevent 7 million new

infections and provide care for 10 million people infected with HIV. These accomplishments also support

the prevention, care and treatment goals laid out in the USG Five-Year Strategy for South Africa.

New/Continuing Activity: Continuing Activity

Continuing Activity: 19516

Continued Associated Activity Information

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

System ID System ID

19516 19516.08 HHS/Centers for Education Labour 8682 8682.08 $450,000

Disease Control & Relations Council

Prevention

Emphasis Areas

Gender

* Increasing gender equity in HIV/AIDS programs

Health-related Wraparound Programs

* TB

Workplace Programs

Human Capacity Development

Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Human Capacity Development $158,738

Public Health Evaluation

Food and Nutrition: Policy, Tools, and Service Delivery

Food and Nutrition: Commodities

Economic Strengthening

Education

Water

Table 3.3.14:

Funding for Health Systems Strengthening (OHSS): $0

NO FY 2009 FUNDING IS REQUESTED FOR THIS ACTIVITY:

This activity was approved in the FY 2008 COP, is funded with FY 2008 PEPFAR funds, and is included

here to provide complete information for reviewers. No FY 2009 funding is requested for this activity. During

the PEPFAR South Africa Interagency Partner Evaluation, the review committee determined that the

activities of the Education Labour Relations Council (ELRC) were not having significant impact and were

lagging behind in terms of targets. The committee recommended ending funding for this activity. Therefore

there is no need to continue funding this activity with FY 2009 COP funds.

New/Continuing Activity: Continuing Activity

Continuing Activity: 19529

Continued Associated Activity Information

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

System ID System ID

19529 19529.08 HHS/Centers for Education Labour 8682 8682.08 $450,000

Disease Control & Relations Council

Prevention

Table 3.3.18:

Subpartners Total: $1,292,357
Academy for Educational Development: $399,569
American Federation of Teachers: $199,288
Suid Afrikaanse Onderwyserunie: $80,000
Cape Teachers Professional Association: $60,000
National Teachers Union - South Africa: $261,000
Professional Educators Union: $40,000
National Association of Professional Teachers in South Africa: $252,500
Cross Cutting Budget Categories and Known Amounts Total: $558,176
Human Resources for Health $194,013
Human Resources for Health $205,425
Human Resources for Health $158,738