Samaritan's Purse (SP) implements an on-going ABY program called MET (Mobilizing, Equipping and

Training) in Kamwenge district that trains community leaders to influence youth to make healthy life choices

that prevent the spread of HIV, with a focus on abstaining from sex outside marriage and faithfulness in

marriage. Religious leaders, youth leaders, school teachers, women's leaders and older youth participate in

the MET cycle of training and one on one mobilization and mentor, care for and/or educate youth and or

parents within their villages. The training involves two workshops and intense follow-up that develops the

leaders as they implement abstinence and behavior change-focused educational programs for youth, and

other interpersonal outreaches that promote positive behavior change.

The first workshop focuses on basic HIV/AIDS awareness and homecare skills. Participants commit to

reaching youth with 2 lessons each on basic facts about HIV/AIDS, Prevention, Stigma, and Testing and to

include 2 youth in compassionate care visits for families affected with HIV/AIDS. Participants have 3 months

to carry out these interventions. The second workshop prepares participants to teach an intensive character

and skill building curriculum to youth and to mentor (either formally or informally) youth who are involved in

or at risk of sexual abuse/exploitation. Following this training, participants commit to teaching the curriculum

to youth and to mentoring youth at risk/involved in sexual abuse /exploitation. In FY 2008 MET Uganda

(MET-U) will introduce a Be faithful curriculum to offer specific messages and skills-based lessons and

strategies on mutual fidelity and partner reduction for married youth.

In response to ongoing monitoring and evaluation of program outcome indicators, in FY08 Samaritan's

Purse MET program will focus on increasing unmarried male and female accepting attitudes towards people

living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHAs) and reducing multiple sexual partnerships especially among married

youth. Another area of focus is promoting secondary abstinence among the youth and encouraging

voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) by networking to improve VCT access. Below are the Standard

MET cycle of program activities and the adjustments to be made in FY08 to address the areas of focus

mentioned above:

Activity 1: Community mobilization

•In FY 2008 MET program staff will further decentralize stakeholders' meetings to reduce the distances that

community leaders have to travel. This in turn will increase community buy-in and reduce the demand for

transport refund.

•To achieve greater program ownership by the communities, MET-U program staff will hold 17 stakeholders

meetings and 36 community level sensitization events.

•MET staff will select youth educators to outreach married youth (15-24). These youth educators will have

frequent interaction with married youth.

Activity 2: Staff development

•This activity is a continuation from FY 2007 and has not been updated

•MET staff will receive training in the Be faithful curriculum and the Be a man campaign curriculum.

Activity 2.2: Media Promotion

•This activity is a continuation from FY 2007 and has not been updated.

•Samaritan's Purse will air 3,285 spots and host MET program volunteers to four talk shows. Also 36

communities will receive video shows that promote abstinence and faithfulness.

Activity 3: Monitoring and Evaluation

•This activity is a continuation from FY 2007 and has not been updated.

•MET-U staff will hold two surveys to measure program impact using the Lot quality assurance sampling

techniques.

Activity 4: Initial 5-day workshops

•This activity is a continuation from FY 2007 and has not been updated.

•MET program trainers will hold 36 workshops targeting 1,512 youth educators.

Activity 5: Commitment from the Initial 5-day workshops.

•This activity is a continuation from FY 2007 and has not been updated.

•Of the 1,512 trained educators, at least 1360 educators are expected to establish outreach programs.

These established programs will outreach 32,180 individuals.

Activity 6.1: Advanced 5-day workshop.

•In FY 08 MET-U will introduce a ‘Be faithful' curriculum to offer specific messages, skill-based lessons and

strategies on mutual fidelity and partner reduction for married youth. MET staff will train youth educators

who will have specifically outreached married youth with the initial curriculum. These youth educators will

therefore again outreach the same youth with the ‘Be faithful' curriculum. MET-U will carry out 36 be faithful

5 day workshops targeting 144 participants.

•1208 educators will receive training in ‘It takes courage' curriculum for outreaching youth with life and

character building skills.

Activity 6.2: Community meetings

•Samaritan's purse will host 1,440 to 12 conversations on faithfulness. Samaritan's purse will use the ‘Be a

man campaign' curriculum developed by Young Empowered and Healthy (YEAH) to dispel cultural norms

that undermine faithfulness in Kamwenge district.

•Also Samaritan's Purse will initiate Community conversations on child abuse and exploitation in 36

communities targeting 1807 community leaders.

•Also 36 parents' day ceremonies will attract 4,320 parents to discuss parents-child communication for

behavior change.

Activity 7: Establishment of community based volunteer teams

•This activity is a continuation from FY 2007 and has not been updated.

•Samaritan's Purse will help youth educators in 36 outreached communities form community based

volunteer teams for program sustainability.

•These CBOs will hold 36 youth conferences and 9 sports competitions.

Activity 8: Commitment to the advanced 5-day workshops

•This activity is a continuation from FY 2007 and has not been updated.

•Participants in the advanced workshop will teach a total of 24,656 youth in Kamwenge district with the 16

character and life-skill lessons from It Takes Courage!

Activity 9: Networking meeting

•This activity is a continuation from FY 2007 and has not been updated.

•CBVT leaders (with assistance from the SP training teams) will host 36 meeting in the village of their

trainee peers, bringing together 1,089 participants including district level leaders to recognize their

volunteerism.

Activity 10: Final Meeting with Participants, CBVTs, and District Level Leaders

Activity Narrative: •This activity is a continuation from FY 2007 and has not been updated.

•Approximately nine months after the advanced workshop, a second meeting between the CBVTs,

participants, district level church, and government leaders will be held. 27 of these meetings will be held in

FY 2008 and 912 participants will be hosted.

Samaritan's Purse will continue to furnish the DDHS and district planner with reports on progress of the

MET program. Also new materials developed/adapted will be submitted. Samaritan's Purse continues to

lobby other service providers of VCT, OVC and HIV/AIDS Treatment to extend their services to Kamwenge

district. In support of the NSP, Samaritan's Purse will focus on the recommendations given for effective

prevention programming.

The MET program will also continue to train and support community volunteers to form CBOs that will be

responsible for AB programming in Kamwenge district after the MET program phases out. Through radio

messages and dramas held by community based volunteer teams, SP will respectfully challenge cultural

practices and beliefs that lead to multiple sexual partnerships in the district. Radio messages will also be

used to increase risk perception among the youth.