The Children's AIDS Fund's Preserving the African Family in the Face of HIV/AIDS Through Prevention is a five year Abstinence and Being Faithful for Youth (ABY) initiative. Its vision is to provide youth, ages 10-24, with the optimum environment in order to live healthy, HIV-free lives. The project is envisioned as a partnership between CAF and two local sub partners: Uganda Youth Forum (UYF) and Campus Alliance to Wipe Out AIDS (CAWA). UYF will work through its existing network in the Kampala, Kanyunga, Luweero, Wakiso and Nukomo districts. CAWA will work in 10 universities: Makerere, Makerere Business School, Kampala International University, Gulu, Mbarara, Kyambogo, Mukono, Islamic University, Nkumba and Nkosi. The CAF Uganda office will undertake complementing activities which will expand the program target areas. CAF Uganda will conduct monthly meetings with the sub-partners and any independent contractors to review and evaluate progress, identify strengths and weaknesses for the purpose of improvement and capacity building.

Due to the delayed approval of the Cooperative Agreement and subsequent sub-partners' contracts, project activity began on July 1, 2006. Nevertheless, FY 06 activities not initiated prior to the end of FY 06 will be rolled over to FY 07 and scaled up during the fiscal year. In FY 07, CAF will continue to explore linkages with other AB partners working in Uganda, such as Samaritan's Purse, International Youth Foundation while maintaining close cooperative relationships with the Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC) and the Ministry of Gender, Labor and Social Development and the Uganda Alcoholics Anonymous. CAF will participate in ABY partner meetings for learning, coordination and standardization of AB related activities. CAF will also work closely with existing government structures such as the District AIDS Task Forces. CAF's strategic objectives will be realized through five core strategies: Peer Education, Community Mobilization, Media and Communications Outreach, Establishment of Referral Systems and Capacity Building.

The Peer Education strategy is to develop key messages targeting adults who have an influence on youth behavior which can be aired through media outreach. Key messages and materials targeting in-school and out of school youth will also be developed and disseminated. Within its project objectives, CAF will make use of IEC materials already developed by other NGOs, such as Straight Talk, and will align its messages with those developed under the national PIASCY initiative. The Peer Education strategy will engage 100,000 primary and secondary school-level, in-school and out-of-school youth, 50,000 of whom will be engaged as a direct result of CAF Uganda's parallel activities. Supplementary activities, including community youth discussions, video showings, youth-to-youth campaigns, national conferences and sporting events will be implemented to sustain engagement with youth participants. Additionally, CAWA's monthly publication distribution, The Prime Timer, and related campus workshops will reach 60,000 tertiary level youth. To enable the on-going peer education activities, preparatory training will be given to a total of 1190, representing UYF, CAWA and CAF Uganda, to equip them with the skills and age-appropriate materials and messages to engage targeted youth.

The Community Mobilization strategy will reach religious and community leaders, who will include the business and private sectors. When mobilized, the latter will participate in pro-bono community projects/activities which encourage positive, mentoring interaction with youth. The community mobilization efforts will capitalize on existing networks of non-governmental and faith-based organizations to build new networks where they have not existed and utilize a variety of activities to reach the general community.

The Media and Communications Outreach strategy will develop and disseminate key messages and materials targeting adults who have an influence on youth behaviors as well as in-school and out-of-school youth. CAF will make use of IEC materials already developed by other NGOs.

The Referral System will train several youth voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) promoters to support an anticipated need for HIV testing and counseling. This strategy will enhance uptake on VCT services among young people. Youth who express a desire will be referred to facilities for VCT testing, reproductive health services, as needed.

Technical Assistance/Capacity Building activities will be conducted throughout the grant period by CAF and its subcontractors and Direct Program Services will be conducted by the sub-partners. The capacity building strategy will focus on improving sub-partners' abilities

in program design and implementation, program and financial management, quality assurance and monitoring and evaluation processes. A capacity building plan will be developed based on the outcomes of ongoing needs assessment. Ongoing quality assurance and supportive supervision will ensure that program quality is closely assessed and maintained throughout the life of the project. Data collection tools have been developed to record attendance at all community outreach activities and specifically adapted to eliminate double counting of targets. Implementing staff will be trained in use of the data collection tools with ongoing support from CAF staff. Data quality audits will be executed bi-annually, to ensure that data summation errors are identified and corrected prior to programmatic reporting, quarterly assessments of sub-partners' proficiency in handling reporting requirements will be conducted with remedial steps and additional capacity building provided as needed.