Samaritan's purse is an international faith based organization implementing an ABY program called MET

(Mobilizing, Equipping and Training) in Kamwenge district. The Program 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. 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. In planning

for FY 2009, the Samaritan's purse will focus on increasing accepting attitudes among unmarried youth

towards people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) and increasing the practice of secondary abstinence among

the never married youth. In FY 2009, Samaritan's purse will expand to Ibanda and Kyenjojo districts.

Since inception, the MET program has reached 87,800 individuals through 3,956 trained community

leaders. This is 59% of the 5 year program 147,705 target of individuals reached and 66% of the 6,014

target of trained individuals. The MET program has 10 standard activities which include; 1) Community

mobilization, 2) Staff Development, 2.2) Media Promotion, 3) Monitoring and Evaluation, 4) Initial 5-day

workshop, 5) Commitment to the initial 5 day work shop, 6.1) Advanced 5-day workshop, 6.2) Community

meetings 7) Formation of community based volunteer teams 8) Commitment to the advanced 5 day

workshops 10) Final networking meeting

Activity 1: Community Mobilization (ACTIVITY UNCHANGED FROM FY 2008)

There are three approaches to community mobilization which will be conducted in FY 2009. These include

15 stakeholders meetings at sub county level, 36 community sensitizations meetings and 36 volunteer

selection meetings. The aim of the meetings is to soliciting the stakeholders' support and stake in the

program.

Activity 2:1 Development of the Samaritan's purse MET Program Staff (ACTIVITY UNCHANGED FROM FY

2008)

In FY 2009, under staff development Samaritan's purse will hold 2 trainings, attend a MET annual meeting

and hold monthly staff meetings and two staff retreats.

Activity 2.2: Media Promotion (ACTIVITY UNCHANGED FROM FY 2008)

In FY 2009, media promotion will be a major strategy in promoting secondary abstinence and for promoting

accepting attitudes. Eighteen radio talk shows on 2 radio stations will be held, 12 shows will be shown in

different communities about the effects Sexually transmitted diseases to increase the fear fact for effective

behavioral change and Billboard messages will be posted in 10 locations of Kamwenge district.

Activity 3: Monitoring and Evaluation (ACTIVITY UNCHANGED FROM FY 2008)

Samaritan's purse will continue to monitor the quality and number of people trained in field to ensure fidelity

to activity design. Twice a month, Area Program Supervisors will participate in volunteer selection and

training activities. The supervisors will also, 3 times a month, work with mobilizers to ensure fidelity to MET

program activities. The MET program mobilizers will also ensure a quality message by following up each

youth educator at least 3 times before they complete their commitment.

Two Knowledge attitude and practices (KAP) surveys will be carried out in all the six supervisory areas of

Kamwenge district using Lot quality assurance sampling techniques.

Three focus group discussions and 1 key informant interview will be carried out. These will be used to probe

underlying factors of high stigma levels and low practice of secondary abstinence among never married

youth.

Activity 4: Initial Five-Day Workshops: (ACTIVITY UNCHANGED FROM FY 2008)

Having outreached all the communities of the program target population, trainings will be carried out in

districts of Ibanda and Kyenjojo. In FY 2009, MET trainers will spend more time discussing with youth

educators the myths and misconception that are exasperating stigma among the unmarried youth.

Basic HIV prevention -sexual, blood, and Mother-to-Child

a. Interactive lessons

b. Emphasis on abstinence, secondary abstinence and faithfulness.

On abstinence,

• Why do never married youth have sex before marriage?

• How can those who have never started be helped to remain abstinent?

• On secondary abstinence

• Why do youth who have ever had sex continue in the practice?

• What risks do they stand?

• How can they be helped to stop and practice secondary abstinence?

• On faithfulness

• Why do married people have extra- marital sex?

• What risks do they stand?

• How can these people be helped to stop and be faithful to their partners?

MET Uganda will conduct 36 trainings teaching a target number 1,332 youth educators in FY 2009. Youth

educators who do score less than 80% will be given coaching to improve their knowledge before they

outreach youth.

Activity 5: Commitment from the Initial Five-Day Workshops (ACTIVITY UNCHANGED FROM FY 2008)

Each participant in the workshops must commit to minimum specific action as part of the selection process.

This action includes two interventions: 1) Outreach target of 26,240youth across Kamwenge district with

HIV/AIDS awareness and Abstinence and be faithful messages by 1,360 youth educators. 2) Provide two

households with basic care and involve youth in giving this care.

These interventions take place in the three months following the initial workshop. Participants will record the

names, ages, genders and marital status of the youth taught, the two youth who accompany them to two

vulnerable households, and the ages and genders of the persons receiving home-based care for their

reports to the MET staff mentors. The MET staff mentors will perform quality checks by meeting one-on-one

Activity Narrative: with each youth educator.

In FY 2009, MET- U will continue to train and give footballs and netballs to sports team leaders. These will

continue to attract the >15 youth who do not like attending outreaches with younger youth.

In order to reach more youth in each community where the MET program will be implemented, experience

sharing meetings. Youth educators will be supported to implement strategies that maximize youth

outreaches and ensure quality programming. These meetings will be held half way the 3 months of

fulfillment of the youth educators' commitment. In FY 2009 36 experience sharing meetings will be carried

out for the commitment to the initial 5 day work shop.

Activity 6.1.1 Advanced Five-Day Workshops(ACTIVITY UNCHANGED FROM FY 2008)

The advanced workshop includes all participants from the first workshop who have completed the first

workshop and the commitment to reaching youth with education and involving youth in visiting vulnerable

households. The workshops will continue to use the It Takes Courage! a youth character and life skills

curriculum with a one-day session on mentoring at risk youth.

36 advanced 5 day workshops will be carried out in FY 2009 by MET-U and 960 youth educators (80

percent of youth educators trained at the initial 5 day work shop) are expected to attend.

Activity 6.1.2 Advanced 5 day be faithful workshop (ACTIVITY UNCHANGED FROM FY 2008)

In FY 2009 MET-U will use the One Love faithfulness curriculum to offer specific messages, skill-based

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

youth educators who received It takes courage curriculum training in FY 08. These youth educators will

outreach the married youth in their communities with the One Love curriculum.

MET-U trainers will carry out 36 be faithful 5 day workshops targeting 1,080 participants.

Activity 6.2: Community Meetings (ACTIVITY HAS BEEN MODIFIED BY FACILITATING SCHOOL

DEBATES)

School debates

To reach school going youth with secondary abstinence messages, debates will be held in 24 schools.

These debates will be held in schools that have active anti-AIDS clubs. SAMARITAN'S PURSE- Mobilizers,

CBVT leaders together with anti-AIDS school club leaders will organize school debates where youth can

discuss the possibility of practicing primary or secondary abstinence. Because these clubs already exist,

they will supplement CBVTs on the sustainability of the program in areas where they exist.

Conversations on Sexual Abuse and Exploitation with Leaders

In each community where Samaritan's purse MET staff teams conduct an advanced 5-day workshop, the

area program supervisor will host a two to three hour meeting on sexual abuse and exploitation for about

3,600 village leaders including headmasters, elders, church and other religious leaders as well as traditional

leaders. The meeting's purpose is to open a dialogue on the sexual abuse and exploitation of children and

youth in the community, and identifying other traditions that are harmful to youth and place them at risk for

HIV infection. 36 conversations on abuse and exploitation will be conducted in FY 2009

Community Parents Day Ceremonies

Being primarily responsible for children's wellbeing, SP-U will continue to partner with parents in FY 2009 to

encourage behavioral change among their youth. In 36 communities where Community based volunteer

teams will be formed, the members of these teams will host 5,400 parents to a one day conversation on

parent-child communication for behavioral change. The implementation of these parents meetings will equip

parents with HIV/AIDS and AB knowledge and help them to communicate sexual issues with their children.

In FY 2009, Samaritan's purse-U will continue to hold 36 parents' day meetings to boost the program.

Abstinence Campaigns

In FY09, Samaritan's purse-U will continue to mobilize youth who have been outreached by MET program

educators to initiate community dialogue about secondary abstinence and accepting attitudes towards

PHAs.

The youth will march through villages with banners and other items that have secondary abstinence

messages. After the marches, youth will gather in public ground to open discussion on primary abstinence

and secondary abstinence through debates.

MET- U will organize 12 A campaigns in Kamwenge district and 3000 youth and program volunteers will

participate.

Faithfulness Campaign

Having discovered that it is effective in increasing risk perception, MET-U will continue hosting married men

for 2-3 hour discussion on faithfulness. The discussion will focus on dispelling, respectfully, cultural norms

that undermine faithfulness in Kamwenge district. SP-U will use the ‘Be a man campaign' curriculum

developed by an ABY partner called Young Empowered and Healthy (YEAH) partner.

In FY 2009, 36 faithfulness campaigns will be held targeting 4,320 participants.

Activity 7: Establishment of Community Based Volunteer Teams (CBVT) (ACTIVITY UNCHANGED FROM

FY 2008)

Youth Educators who would have completed the two trainings, will be encouraged to form a team promoting

their work and for the sustainability of ABY programming in their communities. CBVT leaders will assist

fellow participants in fulfilling these commitments, and will compile information about the youth reached into

reports. A toolkit for CBVT that includes training in administration for civil society organizations and specific

help for developing AB focused activities in has been developed by Samaritan's purse-USA. All formed

teams will be trained.

They will have the continued opportunity to receive additional training opportunities, including, but not

limited to, participation in other workshops and any other MOH or NGO trainings in the area.

In FY 2009, 36 new CBVTs will be formed and 108 leaders will be selected to lead them.

Activity 8: Commitment from the Advanced Workshop (ACTIVITY UNCHANGED FROM FY 2008)

Activity Narrative: Participants in the advanced workshop will teach a total of 26,240 youth in Kamwenge district with the 16

character and life-skill lessons from It Takes Courage! Youth educators will teach this curriculum to the

same youth groups they reached with the initial training curriculum.

The youth educators outreaching married youth will commit themselves to teaching the complete One Love

curriculum.

Activity 9: Networking and follow up meetings with the trainees and community based volunteer teams

(ACTIVITY UNCHANGED FROM FY 2008)

Six months following the advanced workshop, CBVT will host a meeting in the village of their trainee peers,

bringing together some district level leaders to recognize their volunteerism, as well as Samaritan's purse

senior staff. In this meeting, CBVTs and other participants will share success stories, identify obstacles to

reaching the goals of their commitments, and discuss ways to link interventions with existing or future

HIV/AIDS programs, give feedback, and find ways for sustainability of behavior change programs for youth

at the village level It is expected in FY2009 that 36 networking meetings will be held in all the supervisory

areas of Kamwenge with 2,160 people attending.

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

FROM FY 2008)

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

district level church, and government leaders will be held. Community based volunteer team members will

be rewarded for their service and charged to continue their efforts to abstinence and faithfulness and other

healthy behavior change among youth in their community. Forty two final meetings will be held in FY2009

with an attendance of 4,200 participants.

New/Continuing Activity: Continuing Activity

Continuing Activity: 14241

Continued Associated Activity Information

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

System ID System ID

14241 4813.08 U.S. Agency for Samaritan's Purse 6751 1062.08 Mobilizing, $824,107

International Equipping and

Development Training (MET)

(SP ABY Track

1)

8450 4813.07 U.S. Agency for Samaritan's Purse 4847 1062.07 Track 1, Round $588,833

International 2 AB

Development

4813 4813.06 U.S. Agency for Samaritan's Purse 3480 1062.06 Track 1, Round $527,037

International 2 AB

Development

Emphasis Areas

Gender

* Addressing male norms and behaviors

* Reducing violence and coercion

Human Capacity Development

Estimated amount of funding that is planned for Human Capacity Development $38,200

Public Health Evaluation

Food and Nutrition: Policy, Tools, and Service Delivery

Food and Nutrition: Commodities

Economic Strengthening

Education

Water

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