Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2010 2011 2012

Details for Mechanism ID: 9602
Country/Region: South Africa
Year: 2012
Main Partner: Hope Educational Foundation
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: NGO
Funding Agency: HHS/CDC
Total Funding: $1,202,077

Hope Educations iMatter Program program is an HIV prevention, values based curriculum, focusing on school educators and learners. It is implemented through the training of Life Orientation(LO) Educators, to empower them to act as change agents and implement the iMatter curriculum in their LO classes. Both first and second year educators will be trained in HIV knowledge, teaching and classroom skills as well as age-appropriate methods to teach the AB message to their learners. Master trainers within the Department of Education (DoE) will be trained and capacitated within the structure of the DoE to ensure that the DoE take ownership and ensure sustainability of the program. The Learners that will be reported as reached with AB messages would have received a minimum of 6 iMatter lessons. In addition, Hope Education also has the Families Matter Program (FMP) which is an evidence-based HIV prevention intervention for parents and caregivers of pre-adolescents ages 9-12 years. The program aims to enhance protective parenting practices that are associated with reduced sexual risk among adolescents and to promote parent-child communication about sexuality and sexual risk reduction. Hope Education will provide management, support and oversight to programs in the Free State and KwaZulu-Natal. Finally, theTertiary Institution Prevention Program focuses on the recruitment of student leaders and staff members, to train them in peer-to-peer HIV prevention and mentorship. These students will then formulate HIV prevention campaigns that will be implemented at the Tshwane University of Technology to increase knowledge of HIV prevention and the drivers of the HIV pandemic. This is done through comprehensive training, mobilizing students to present messages and campaigns on campus.

Funding for Sexual Prevention: Abstinence/Be Faithful (HVAB): $1,202,077

The iMatter Program aims to increase the capacity of 2000 (1000 first year and 1000 second year) Life Orientation Educators through Life Orientation Teacher Trainings in order to promote HIV prevention through abstinence and faithfulness. 300 000 iMatter learner books will be used to build the capacity of the DoE (providing each learner represented by the educator with their own book). Furthermore 6 master trainers within the DoE will be trained on facilitation skills, in order to build the capacity of DoE and assist them to take ownership of the program internally. 60 000 learners will be reached with an AB message through the implementation of the iMatter curriculum by Life Orientation teachers trained.

The Families Matter Program aims to capacitate parents and primary caregivers of pre-adolescents to be able to communicate with them about sexual issues and delaying sexual debut. Hope Education will be utilizing 3 sets of facilitators that will conduct 6 waves per pair, with a maximum of 18 parents per group. The organization is intending to reach a total number 2 592 parents/ caregivers.

The Tertiary Institution Prevention Program aims to increase the knowledge of 1 000 new student Peer Educators and staff members of the Student Affairs and Residence Operations SARO by training them in HIV knowledge, prevention and the drivers of the HIV pandemic. These trained peer educators will then be expected to conduct prevention campaigns and messages on risky reducing behaviors leading to HIV transmission. The trained peer educators are expected to reach 3000 students through the peer led HIV prevention campaigns on each of the 6 campuses.15 000 students will be reached with HIV prevention through the media campaigns conducted by the trained peer educators on all campuses of Tshwane University.

Subpartners Total: $0
Reaching a Generation: NA