Detailed Mechanism Funding and Narrative

Years of mechanism: 2008 2009

Details for Mechanism ID: 7831
Country/Region: Kenya
Year: 2009
Main Partner: To Be Determined
Main Partner Program: NA
Organizational Type: Implementing Agency
Funding Agency: HHS/CDC
Total Funding: $0

Funding for Sexual Prevention: Abstinence/Be Faithful (HVAB): $0

Updated April 2009 Reprogramming. Decreased by $932,946. CDC's TBD funding for The Partnership for

an HIV-Free Generation will be reprogrammed to the USAID TBD HIV-Free funding pool for an AIDSTAR

Sector I Task Order. The AIDSTAR Task Order will support administrative costs of HIV-Free's Program

Management Center, the national youth media strategy, and public-private partnership agreements.

ACTIVITY UNCHANGED FROM COP 2008

1. LIST OF RELATED ACTIVITIES

This activity relates to activities in abstinence/be faithful, and condoms and other prevention.

2. ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION

This funding is earmarked to support a dynamic, new initiative focused on Kenyan youth. Funding will be

allocated as TBD across agencies (CDC 50%; USAID 50%) until partners are identified for activity

implementation. The healthy youth initiative will utilize the core competencies of private sector partners, the

technical expertise of the Kenya PEPFAR team and its partners, and the best ideas of young people

themselves to implement novel approaches to imparting skills for healthy living, including a focus on HIV

prevention, economic opportunity, and gender equality. It will in part be measured by a goal of a 50%

decrease in HIV prevalence in five years among youth (age 10-24) in Nairobi and the surrounding slums

and will be brought to national scale as resources and experience allow. Building from private sector

expertise, the healthy youth initiative strategies will include traditional behavior change approaches such as

media campaigns as well as innovative interpersonal and electronic communications. These will be adapted

to match young adults' interests and needs with the recognition that a desire to "belong" and to "be cool,"

including self-image and peer pressure, are potent determinants of behavior among youth all over the world.

The project will incorporate skills training and economic opportunities to lift young people out of cycles of

desperation and despair, as well as provide links to education for school dropouts. Programs will be

introduced in modules, both physical and technical, at schools, religious centers, business centers, and

youth internet cafés / clubs to meet youth "where they are" (and where they want to be), as well as at

central sites identified for the establishment and expansion of these interconnected modules. The healthy

youth initiative will include monitoring and evaluation to track reduced HIV prevalence among youth,

behavior change, increased financial security through job creation, and qualitative markers for positive

living. Project evolution and implementation will be thoroughly documented to provide a replicable model.

Youth will be engaged at all levels of developing, implementing, and assessing the initiative with appropriate

involvement of experts and adults in the various areas. This activity will reach 186,589 youth and train

1,296 during the first year. A Program Management Center (PMC) will be established in Nairobi to manage

the development of this initiative and coordinate the financial, in-kind, creative, and other inputs from

partners with the needs of program implementers. FY 2009 funding for the healthy youth initiative will

support both the PMC and direct program implementation.

3. CONTRIBUTIONS TO OVERALL PROGRAM AREA

This HIV Free Generation project will contribute to the overall youth prevention efforts in Kenya and reduce

the number of new infections in Kenyan youth aged 10 to 24 years.

4. LINKS TO OTHER ACTIVITIES

This activity relates to activities in Abstinence/be faithful (#8989) and condoms and other prevention

(#8942) to promote health seeking behaviors.

5. POPULATIONS BEING TARGETED

This activity targets adolescents aged 10 to 24 years old.

7. EMPHASIS AREAS

This HIV Free activity has a major emphasis on training and community outreach.

New/Continuing Activity: Continuing Activity

Continuing Activity: 18053

Continued Associated Activity Information

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

System ID System ID

18053 18053.08 HHS/Centers for To Be Determined 7831 7831.08 Partnership for

Disease Control & an HIV-Free

Prevention Generation

(CDC)

Program Budget Code: 03 - HVOP Sexual Prevention: Other sexual prevention

Total Planned Funding for Program Budget Code: $28,009,658

Total Planned Funding for Program Budget Code: $0

Table 3.3.03:

Funding for Sexual Prevention: Other Sexual Prevention (HVOP): $0

Updated April 2009 Reprogramming. Decreased by $530,372. CDC's TBD funding for The Partnership for

an HIV-Free Generation will be reprogrammed to the USAID TBD HIV-Free funding pool for an AIDSTAR

Sector I Task Order. The AIDSTAR Task Order will support administrative costs of HIV-Free's Program

Management Center, the national youth media strategy, and public-private partnership agreements.

ACTIVITY UNCHANGED FROM COP 2008

1. LIST OF RELATED ACTIVITIES

This activity relates to activities in abstinence/be faithful, and condoms and other prevention.

2. ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION

This funding is earmarked to support a dynamic, new initiative focused on Kenyan youth. Funding will be

allocated as TBD across agencies (CDC 50%; USAID 50%) until partners are identified for activity

implementation. The healthy youth initiative will utilize the core competencies of private sector partners, the

technical expertise of the Kenya PEPFAR team and its partners, and the best ideas of young people

themselves to implement novel approaches to imparting skills for healthy living, including a focus on HIV

prevention, economic opportunity, and gender equality. It will in part be measured by a goal of a 50%

decrease in HIV prevalence in five years among youth (age 10-24) in Nairobi and the surrounding slums

and will be brought to national scale as resources and experience allow. Building from private sector

expertise, the healthy youth initiative strategies will include traditional behavior change approaches such as

media campaigns as well as innovative interpersonal and electronic communications. These will be adapted

to match young adults' interests and needs with the recognition that a desire to "belong" and to "be cool,"

including self-image and peer pressure, are potent determinants of behavior among youth all over the world.

The project will incorporate skills training and economic opportunities to lift young people out of cycles of

desperation and despair, as well as provide links to education for school dropouts. Programs will be

introduced in modules, both physical and technical, at schools, religious centers, business centers, and

youth internet cafés / clubs to meet youth "where they are" (and where they want to be), as well as at

central sites identified for the establishment and expansion of these interconnected modules. The healthy

youth initiative will include monitoring and evaluation to track reduced HIV prevalence among youth,

behavior change, increased financial security through job creation, and qualitative markers for positive

living. Project evolution and implementation will be thoroughly documented to provide a replicable model.

Youth will be engaged at all levels of developing, implementing, and assessing the initiative with appropriate

involvement of experts and adults in the various areas. This activity will reach 225,690 youth and train 671

during the first year. A Program Management Center (PMC) will be established in Nairobi to manage the

development of this initiative and coordinate the financial, in-kind, creative, and other inputs from partners

with the needs of program implementers. FY 2009 funding for the healthy youth initiative will support both

the PMC and direct program implementation.

3.CONTRIBUTIONS TO OVERALL PROGRAM AREA

This HIV Free Generation project will contribute to the overall youth prevention efforts in Kenya and reduce

the number of new infections in Kenyan youth aged 10 to 24 years.

4.LINKS TO OTHER ACTIVITIES

This activity relates to activities in Abstinence/be faithful (#8989) and condoms and other prevention

(#8942) to promote health seeking behaviors.

5.POPULATIONS BEING TARGETED

This activity targets adolescents aged 10 to 24 years old.

7.EMPHASIS AREAS

This HIV Free activity has a major emphasis on training and community outreach.

New/Continuing Activity: Continuing Activity

Continuing Activity: 18057

Continued Associated Activity Information

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

System ID System ID

18057 18057.08 HHS/Centers for To Be Determined 7831 7831.08 Partnership for

Disease Control & an HIV-Free

Prevention Generation

(CDC)

Emphasis Areas

Gender

* Addressing male norms and behaviors

* Increasing gender equity in HIV/AIDS programs

Human Capacity Development

Public Health Evaluation

Food and Nutrition: Policy, Tools, and Service Delivery

Food and Nutrition: Commodities

Economic Strengthening

Education

Water

Table 3.3.03: