This IM builds on Families Matter Program (FMP) which aims at increasing the ability of parents (caregivers/guardians) to communicate freely with their pre- adolescents about sexuality issues and sexual risk behaviors aiming to delay sexual debut and reduce exposure to sexual risk activities among adolescents.

Specific objectives include:

1. Increase the knowledge and skills of in and out of school youth to effectively practice abstinence and reduce sexual risk behaviors by using appropriate prevention methods.

2. Create a supportive environment that increases adolescents' self efficacy to delay sexual debut and avoid risk.

3. Build local human and material capacity to roll-out and scale-up the Families matter intervention.

Curricula based training will be conducted among in and out of school youth on comprehensive HIV prevention. The methodology will include class room and small group training sessions. These trainings are aimed to raise the level of comprehensive knowledge about HIV/AIDS among parents and young people as well.

Through these trainings the IM expects to increase youth self efficacy in making the right and informed choices. The strategy will target communities in hard to reach areas.

Training of parents and facilitators on FMP and partnerships with health related organizations will contribute to health systems strengthening by supporting a cadre of community workers who mobilize the community to participate and be mindful of their role in HIV prevention for their adolescents. Given the scarcity of health care workers in the target regions Mtwara and Ruvuma we anticipate that the trained community workers will play an important complementary role.

The FMP project works in partnership and collaboration with other NGOs to leverage on their existing structure and hence cut down some administrative costs. The project also will utilize the same facilitators utilized for FMP project as recruitment agents and mobilizers for youth to be trained, hence cut down the marginal costs. And finally the project trainings will be conducted in public places such as churches, local government offices and schools. TMARC will also continue working in collaboration with the local government authorities to ensure sustainability and build local capacity

The project will cover two regions of Mtwara and Ruvuma. Target is to cover all the districts in these regions. However, at the beginning we start with one district per region.

Target population is parents and guardians of children of 9 12 years of age, and in school and out of school youth engaged in risk behaviors.

The FMP project together with Healthy Choices supports and contributes to PEPFAR goals and the Government of Tanzania (GoT) goal by broadly preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS in Tanzania. The project aims to reduce HIV infection among youth by targeting their parents and guardians as well as the youth themselves. Its implementation will contribute to President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and PEPFAR indicator numbers 2.1 (number of individuals reached through community outreach that promotes HIV/AIDS prevention through abstinence) and 14.2 (number of local organizations provided with technical assistance for HIV related institutional capacity building). The IM is in line with PF goal to transfer implementation of program to local indigenous civil societies and the host government.

Routine data collected will reflect target populations reached with individual and/or small group level interventions. Process and output indicators will be regularly reviewed for project management purposes and summaries included in the project's quarterly, annual and interim progress reports.

Base line data will be collected using parent monitoring forms. The same form will be used to collect data six months after the training to gauge the parents understanding and whether or not they implement what they have been taught.

Continuation of support for Families Matter Program (FMP). No increase in funding but exapnsion within 3 regions covered expected: Mtwara, Ruvuma. Support for Healthy Choices as FMP add-on. Health choices utilizes the same straucture as FMP. Health choices project builds on FMP which aims at increasing the ability of parents (caregivers/guardians) to communicate freely with their pre- adolescents about sexuality issues and sexual risk behaviors aiming to delay sexual debut and reduce exposure to sexual risk activities among adolescents. Utilizing the same structure, health choices targets both in and out of school youth with a more compressive prevention approach

Specific objectives include:

1. Increase the knowledge and skills of in and out of school youth to effectively practice abstinence and reduce sexual risk behaviors by using appropriate prevention methods.

2. Create a supportive environment that increases adolescents' self efficacy to delay sexual debut and avoid risk.

3. Build local human and material capacity to roll-out and scale-up the Families matter intervention.

Curricula based training will be conducted among in and out of school youth on comprehensive HIV prevention. The methodology will include class room and small group training sessions.

These trainings are aimed to raise the level of comprehensive knowledge about HIV/AIDS among parents and young people as well.

Through these trainings the IM expects to increase youth self efficacy in making the right and informed choices. The strategy will target communities in hard to reach areas.

Funding for OP component of Healthy Choices. Aim is to work with out-of-school and at-risk youth to delay sexual debut and practice safer sex. Support for Healthy Choices as FMP add-on. Health choices utilizes the same straucture as FMP. Health choices project builds on FMP which aims at increasing the ability of parents (caregivers/guardians) to communicate freely with their pre- adolescents about sexuality issues and sexual risk behaviors aiming to delay sexual debut and reduce exposure to sexual risk activities among adolescents. Utilizing the same structure, health choices targets both in and out of school youth with a more compressive prevention approach

Specific objectives include:

1. Increase the knowledge and skills of in and out of school youth to effectively practice abstinence and reduce sexual risk behaviors by using appropriate prevention methods.

2. Create a supportive environment that increases adolescents' self efficacy to delay sexual debut and avoid risk.

3. Build local human and material capacity to roll-out and scale-up the Families matter intervention.

Curricula based training will be conducted among in and out of school youth on comprehensive HIV prevention. The methodology will include class room and small group training sessions.

These trainings are aimed to raise the level of comprehensive knowledge about HIV/AIDS among parents and young people as well.

Through these trainings the IM expects to increase youth self efficacy in making the right and informed choices. The strategy will target communities in hard to reach areas.