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Service on replication. TIOS is also adding to the HIV training and income-generating activities. In August 2008, SSTOP began a series of income-generation seminars with instructions on how to make cement water filters, anti-itch and anti-bacterial soaps, and insect-repellent candles. In November 2008, the project will offer classes on computer graphic arts in which participants will make manuals, posters and safety training materials to complement the survival skills curriculum. SSTOP hopes to have a comprehensive training center by 2009 to train new trainers and produce all materials needed to teach safety and survival skills throughout Mozambique. • The International Trade Cooperative (ITC) has received the SSTOP training and experienced a big change in behavior among the trainees of their project. ITC also will work with TIOS as they create a “school farm” and girls center in a rural community outside of Chimoio. LESSONS LEARNED AND CHALLENGES Key Findings and Lessons • Efforts to elicit behavior change must also provide girls with alternative choices. Nobody chooses to live a marginal life; a marginal life comes from a perceived or real lack of options. Challenges and Unforeseen Outcomes • Finding girls who were not pregnant or already mothers was a challenge. • Even though the project improved self-esteem and gave girls an income-generating skill, participants still viewed marriage and motherhood as the most important things in a woman's life. This could offset project efforts around safe sex, as their new skills made the girls more attractive to men. • TIOS applied for funding in August but the funds arrived in December when prices were 20 percent higher. This is especially challenging, as TIOS is a small organization and cannot begin programs without the funding. Once the funding arrives there is a short time frame to complete the project. It is a bit of a struggle to find a teacher and students for the courses within such a short time frame. If the date of the arrival of the funds were guaranteed, TIOS could have received applications for students and hired teachers in advance. • The project occasionally meets pressure to allow boys access to the unique opportunities at the training center. However, TIOS holds to the original design because undereducated girls typically have more responsibilities than boys, and because undereducated boys have many income-generating possibilities unavailable to girls. However, the project has been careful to choose activities for girls that can be considered “home” or “domestic” products. Recently, SSTOP has begun to challenge gender bias by offering girls computer training courses, which is possible because TIOS has built up trust since it has been a part of the community for three years. • Finding trustworthy, reliable personnel can be a challenge. 86
Recommendations for Replication • Hire personnel who are intelligent, organized, and practical. Ideally they should have some kind of salary to cut down on corruption, and good training. • The community must take ownership of the project, investing their time and support. Otherwise, the organization starting the training center will have to run it independently for many years. • It is necessary to have a very organized accounting/purchasing person to run operations efficiently. • It is helpful to have knowledge of local family law and local cultural practices, and to know what other local organizations are doing to share ideas and avoid repetition of project activities. • It is important to ensure that the project meets the community’s actual needs, and to show the community the benefits and incentives of the project. Often people are not aware that they are missing valuable information, like basic first aid, and how it can be a tremendous advantage for them and decrease poverty within families. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Program References and Resources KCFR News. “News Feature: AIDS Dolls.” Feb. 18, 2008. http://www.kcfr.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=94&Item id=234&target_pg=com_day&date=02/18/2008. Accessed October 17, 2008. Lang, J. “How Did Amy End Up in Africa.” 2007. http://denver.yourhub.com/Englewood/Stories/Faith/General- Faith/Story~292624.aspx. Accessed October 17, 2008. “Nonprofit Teaches African Orphans Survival Skills.” 2006. http://www.easychairmedia.com/Colorado_Springs/2006_CS_Noodles/pdf_ files/06.pdf. Accessed October 17, 2008. Stachura, S. “Amy Gillsepie’s Mozambique.” 2006. http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2006/07/26/amygillespie/ Accessed October 17, 2008. TIOS. TIOS Mozambique 2, no. 1 (Aug. 15, 2008). http://aosci.org/downloads/Aug%2015%202008.pdf. Contact Information Training Internationally for the Orphans and Their Survival C.P. 412, Avenida Samora Machel, Chimoio, Mozambique Tel: + 258 82 854 2584 Website: http://aosci.org/programs/programs.htm Amy L. Gillespie, Founder, AOSCI Email: aosci.tios@gmail.com TIOS is registered as 501(c) 3 nonprofit in the U.S. as AOSCI _ AIDS Orphans Skills Centers, Inc. 87
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INTEGRATING MULTIPLE GENDER STRATEG
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CONTENTS Acronyms..................
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Mama’s Club Memory Book .........
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ACRONYMS AED AEMCI AIDS AMREF AOSCI
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to t
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The public health
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INTRODUCTION The public health and
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• Identify current, promising pro
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• Snowball sampling of gender and
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LIMITATIONS This compendium is limi
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program, and small-scale programs s
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Child Security Project in South Afr
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elated efforts. The Mozambique SSTO
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RECOMMENDATIONS 1. Programs should
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PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS TARGETING AND
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transmission and explain how the pr
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Tel: + 267 319 1816 / Fax: + 267 31
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Sessions center around small group
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Supervision occurs on two levels: s
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issues. • Involve uniformed perso
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a new bridge to the health care sys
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and among working girls, 77 percent
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ETHIOPIAN RADIO SERIAL DRAMAS TO PR
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• Project completion report: The
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Program Refe
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character, Matlakala, is in an abus
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• The Presidency • Society For
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society stakeholders. • While eve
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4. Contraception, conception and me
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IMPLEMENTATION AND RESULTS Start-up
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Challenges and Unforeseen Outcomes
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WOMEN’S HEALTH COOP, PRETORIA LEA
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female condoms to distribute in com
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to contraceptives (particularly con
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• Periodic household surveys: A b
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Resources Promises an Exciting Year
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stressed families in their home env
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generating activities and home visi
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LESSONS LEARNED AND CHALLENGES Key
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HIV & AIDS COUNSELING AND SERVICES
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Timeframe 1987-ongoing; the current
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multisectoral approach and that res
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Peer educators also aim to increase
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Challenges and Unforeseen Outcomes
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In collaboration with legal organiz
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Replication and Scale-up Activities
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THE SASA! ACTIVIST KIT FOR PREVENTI
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Timeframe 2008-ongoing Funders •
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• Engaging a cross-section of act
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CORRIDORS OF HOPE II LEAD ORGANIZAT
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Geographic Location Seven towns: Ka
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APPENDIX 1: ONLINE SEARCH PROCESS T
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APPENDIX 2: SURVEY INSTRUMENT BACKG
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1.10 Does the project address incre
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Section 5: LESSONS LEARNED AND FEAS
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Gender Strategy Addressed Type of H
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