1.Goals and objectives: This partnership aims to increase the capacity of Kenya Episcopal Conference-Catholic Secretariat (KEC-CS) Commission for Education and Religious Education to design, implement, sustain, monitor and evaluate multiple school and community-based Abstinence and Behaviour change programs for Youth (ABY). 2.

Cost-efficiency strategy: This partnership utilizes volunteer efforts in order to adapt, implement, monitor and evaluate a nationwide school-based HIV prevention intervention for Kenyan youth aged 11-14. KEC-CS leverages over 580,000 volunteer hours per year from a workforce of over 20,000 administrators and teachers while DePaul leverages nearly 2,000 volunteer hours from faculty, staff and students. This significant volunteer effort has enabled the program to scale up from reaching 10,619 youth (5,823 female; 4,796 male) per year in 2006 to reaching 147,829 youth (79,471 female; 68,358 male) per year in 2010. To date, this program has reached over 350,000 youth since it began in 2006. 3.Transition to country partners: AIHA partnerships are volunteer-based peer-to-peer programs, with an emphasis on professional exchanges to build capacity in Kenya, voluntary contributions, and leveraging private sector resources in order to create sustainability. DePaul University increases the capacity of KEC-CS in order for them to have ability in future to acquire and manage their own funding. 4.Vehicle information: One vehicle was purchased with FY6 funds for mentoring and monitoring visits. Please note that target populations, geographic coverage, and M&E plans are addressed in budget code narrative. This activity supports GHI/LLC.

This mechanism will continue to address unique HIV prevention needs of Kenyan youth in primary school within 25 Dioceses of the Catholic Church across all 7 Kenyan provinces. The mechanism currently implements Making Life's Responsible Choices (MLRC) program (targets 40,520) and the Families Matter! Program (FMP) (targets 12,000).

MLRC is a school-based abstinence and behavior change program for Kenyan youth (ages 11-14) that builds on elements and activities from standard HIV prevention evidence-informed interventions (EBIs) and incorporates both Kenyan and Christian cultural perspectives and activities. KEC-CS has been delivering this intervention in Catholic-sponsored schools for several years, and has been working with DePaul University on the development, implemention, evaluation, and modification of various aspects of the MLRC program since 2005. MLRC will be assessed to determine its effectiveness using the Kenyan HIV Prevention Intervention Analysis Tool and will be revised as necessary to ensure it meets the standards of being an EBI.

FMP is an evidence-based, parent-focused EBI for parents, guardians, and other primary caregivers of preadolescents ages 912 years. Delivered in 5 weekly sessions to give parents time to internalize new information and practice skills, the program promotes positive parenting practices such as positive reinforcement and parental monitoring and effective parent-child communication on sexual topics and sexual risk reduction. The goal of FMP is to reduce sexual risk behavior among adolescents, including delaying onset of sexual debut, by training parents to deliver primary prevention messages to their children. More effective parental communication can help to delay their childrens sexual behavior and increase protective behaviors as children get older. The intervention also links parents to other critical EBIs including HTC and VMMC. Quality assurance of FMP is promoted through rigorous training and certification of facilitators, ongoing process monitoring with standardized tools, and QA site visits by a CDC activity managers and technical experts.

For further QA, this mechanism has put in place for all sites the following: use of approved national curricula; emphasis of importance of fidelity to the curricula; use of trained/certified pair of gender balanced facilitators; trainings on EBIs are conducted by certified national trainers; observed practice of implementation is done soon after training; use of standardized, national data tools at every stage of EBI implementation; and regular field visits by trained program staff to check on delivery of EBIs and offer support supervision.

Since 2005, the partnership has built and sustained an extensive M&E system across national, diocesan, and school/local levels. Monthly monitoring forms are completed by head teachers at schools and sent to KEC-CS for data collection/analysis. Monthly site visit reports are completed by KEC-CS during their monitoring visits. This partnership is implementing a targeted evaluation of the MLRC program in COP11 to measure changes in participating youths HIV-related knowledge, attitudes and risk behaviour. The FM program has an extensive M&E system where program facilitators compile necessary M&E data and send it to the national KEC office for data collection and analysis. All data are summarized into Quarterly Reports completed jointly by KEC-CS and DePaul University and then submitted to AIHA & CDC.