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Context
PCI is a US-based non-profit organization with headquarters in San Diego, California. PCI's mission is to prevent disease, improve community health, and promote sustainable development.
Goals and Objectives
To strengthen the capacity of the Botswana Defense Force (BDF) to implement effective HIV prevention activities.
Promote sexual behavior change among BDF personnel and their families.
Engage BDF leadership in response to HIV prevention, focusing on Battalion and Company Commanders, Military Chaplains, and other key actors.
Strengthen service delivery partnerships among units of the BDF.
Strengthen BDF capacity to monitor, evaluate and document their HIV/AIDS programs.
Major Activities
PCI will assist the BDF to implement behavior change-strategies that address key drivers of the epidemic, and are integrated with other HIV/AIDS services, including strengthening and expanding the peer education program, refining behavior change communication materials, strengthening existing drama groups, and developing intensive interventions to encourage relationship-building with monogamous partners. Prevention intervention topics will be prioritized through various needs assessments within the BDF.
PCI will assist the BDF to refine its peer education (PE) training strategies and materials, train master trainers (MT) and peer educators (PEs), and provide technical assistance to the trained MTs and PEs. PCI will assist the BDF to develop new cadres of PEs, that include spouses and teenage children and significant others of BDF personnel, and civilian personnel working on BDF bases. PCI will assist the BDF to adapt and develop behavior change materials, and learn how to use these effectively. Existing drama groups will be trained in theatre-for-development skills to help them improve script development and use of drama for behavior change.
PCI will assist the BDF to develop or adapt tools and strategies that help young, unmarried personnel develop the skills and attitudes needed to form and maintain long-term, mature, and satisfying relationships, and to support each other in this decision; and to help married couples strengthen their relationships. PCI will help train PEs, social workers, Chaplains, and lay counselors in the implementation of these strategies.
PCI will conduct sensitization activities with Commanding Officers to strengthen their active involvement and provide leadership to BDF HIV/AIDS activities.
PCI will support the BDF in developing a monitoring and evaluation system for the BDF prevention program, and will strengthen BDF capacity in strategic information management and promote evidence-based planning and decision-making at all levels.
Target Populations
Military personnel, their spouses/partners and children
Geographic Coverage
The BDF bases in Gaborone, Francistown, Selebi-Phikwe, and Thebephatshwa
The rotational camps in Maun, Tsabong and Kasane.
Sustainability
Sustainability starts with the Project Management Team, comprised of key BDF and PCI staff, to ensure that all decisions about PCI support are made jointly and are based on a shared value of sustainable capacity building.
Activities to strengthen the involvement of BDF Commanding Officers will ensure that HIV prevention activities are built into daily work of the BDF at all levels.
Monitoring and Evaluation
The system of monitoring, supervision and evaluation for this program is designed to measure the achievement of outputs and outcomes that contribute to the program's impact, determine the constraints to progress, and promptly adjust interventions as needed. Data will be collected on PEPFAR indicators and supplemental indicators and reported to PEPFAR quarterly.
PCI will provide capacity building to develop or strengthen protocols that include guidance on tracking project activities and beneficiaries; operational definitions of the indicators to be reported; specific guidance on submission of data; standardized reporting instruments and templates; and data and program quality procedures.
PCI will assess the existing BDF electronic data-management system and work with the BDF to strengthen the system, to ensure that it is appropriate to the complexity and volume of data generated to track project activities and other information. PCI will facilitate annual project review and work-plan development workshops at the end of the first and second project years.
10.P.AB20: PCI - BDF - AB - 425,000.00
PCI will work with the Botswana Defense Force (BDF) HIV/AIDS Coordination Office, Social Welfare Unit, and Chaplaincy to develop and/or adapt tools and strategies to reach a total of 4,000 individuals. This activity will help young, unmarried personnel develop the skills and attitudes needed to form and maintain long-term, mature, and satisfying relationships, and to support each other in this decision. The activity will also aim to help 500 couples in long-term relationships develop skills for strengthening these relationships and getting more enjoyment out of both the emotional and sexual aspects of their marriage. PCI and the BDF will review existing toolkits, such as the Combating HIVAIDS through Spiritual and Ethical Conduct, developed by the South Africa National Defense Force, which is being implemented by BDF Chaplains, and tools developed by the PCI - Department of Defense HIV/AIDS Prevention program in Zambia. Existing materials will be adapted into a relationship strengthening toolkit for use in the BDF program, and PCI will help train peer educators (PEs), social workers, Chaplains, and lay counselors in the implementation of these strategies. PCI will assist the BDF to implement relationship skills-building methods through both individual counseling (as provided by PEs, social workers and Chaplains) and also in small group settings. Internationally, PCI has utilized men's groups in churches, prisons, schools, and the general community as important platforms for challenging male stereotypes about gender and relationships, building new skills, and creating peer pressure for change. PCI will explore approaches that are appropriate to the BDF context to bring together small groups of men on a regular basis for such interventions. These groups will be focused on improving relationships between men and women in addition to issues of HIV/AIDS.
10.P.OP21: PCI - BDF - C/O Prevention - 100,000.00
PCI will assist the Botswana Defense Force (BDF) to further refine their peer education (PE) training strategies and materials and will assist the BDF to train master trainers (MTs) and PEs using the revised materials. PCI will also provide on-going technical assistance to MTs and PEs to help them apply their new knowledge. PCI will assist the BDF to develop new cadres of PEs, that include spouses and teenage children of BDF personnel, significant others of unmarried personnel, and civilian personnel working on BDF bases. PCI will assist the BDF to adapt and implement training and outreach materials and to develop creative strategies for utilizing such PEs in conjunction with the more typical PEs. PCI will assist the BDF to adapt and develop behavior change materials to create a vibrant, engaging, and effective set of peer education and outreach tools for use in the BDF that is wholly owned by the BDF and reflects their unique needs and context. Materials to be developed with the BDF may include cue cards/picture codes with discussion guides, videos with discussion guides, leaflets/brochures, posters, and musical productions. Existing MTs will be re-trained and new MTs will be trained to use newly adapted/developed materials, and will then be assisted to train existing and new PEs in the same fashion. PCI will train MTs in each of the four base drama groups in how to use theater for development techniques to revitalize their dramas and achieve their potential. A training guide and support materials will be developed for the BDF to train drama groups. PCI will assist the BDF to measure the impact of drama performances using pre-and post-exposure questionnaires to ensure quality and effectiveness of drama performances.
