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Chapter 9Expanded Life Planning Education (ELPE) at a GlanceDescription: School-based curricular and co-curricular HIV/AIDS andlife-skills educationNumber of schools participating: 131 of the 324 public secondary schoolsin Oyo State, covering more than 425,000 studentsCoverage: About 40 percent of secondary schools in Oyo State, in all33 local government areas. Program has been replicated in the statesof Bauchi, Borno Gombe, Kebbi, and Yobe.Target groups: Students aged 9–20 of both genders and all tribes.Secondary target audience includes out-of-school youth, users of youthfriendlyclinics, teachers, parents, and policy makers.Components: Program has eight components: formal HIV/AIDS education;peer education; life-planning education/HIV prevention clubs;youth-friendly health clinics; advocacy and awareness raising; teachertraining; material development and distribution; and research, monitoring,and evaluation.Establishment: Begun in Ibadan in 1994; expanded activities to 131public secondary schools in 1999.Management: Team composed of four key stakeholders—the Ministryof Education, Science, and Technology (MoEST); the Ministry ofHealth; the Association for Reproductive and Family Health (ARFH);and the Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM)—each of whichhas a specific role.Role of MoEST: Reviewing policy; legalizing and regularizing the integrationof life-planning education into the school curriculum; andstrengthening the ministry’s approach to the new challenge. Projectcoordinating unit has responsibilities for other operational issues,including maintaining links with schools; conducting supervision andmonitoring; liaising with other partners; distributing materials toschools; collecting data from schools; providing technical assistance toteachers; and setting standards and ensuring compliance.Role of key partners: Overall responsibility for the project lies withARFH, whose executive director is ELPE’s project coordinator andchief accounting officer. The Ministry of Health is responsible forfacilitating the integration of youth-friendly services into primaryhealth care. As the program moves from being an innovative project to173(c) The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank
Chapter 9part of the day-to-day work of MoEST, the Ministry of Health iscalled upon to provide ongoing support and advice to the educationalactivities of schools at the local level. TESCOM is responsible forhiring and transferring teachers. DFID provided funding for the programthrough 2003.Costs: Total expenditures totaled $767,000 during 1999–2003, about$1.78 per person.Evaluation results: Evaluation revealed the following results:• Peer education was effective in empowering young people in publicspeaking; interpersonal communication; and decision-making,problem-solving, and leadership skills. It also helped improveyoung people’s health-seeking behavior.• Students were able to discuss their reproductive health problemswith teachers and health care providers more freely than couldbefore the project.• Student truancy fell.• Relations between boys and girls in school improved, and the gendergap in aspirations narrowed.• The number of unplanned pregnancies and abortions declined.• Students were better able to make informed decisions about reproductivehealth, STIs, and HIV prevention and complications.• Empowerment of girls reduced their sexual vulnerability.174(c) The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank
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