a sourcebook of hiv/aids prevention programs volume 2

The Expanded Life Planning Education Program (ELPE), Nigeria 195In 2001 the LPE teachers’ forum was set up. LPE teachers meet toexchange ideas and experiences with regard to implementing LPE lessonsin schools.EvaluationConducting evaluations and making use of their findings was one of themain strategies of the program. Evaluations were undertaken to detectchanges in knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors by stakeholders; investigatethe process, lessons, challenges, and outcomes of the program; and assistothers in replicating the program.The survey was readministered during a “process” evaluation in 2001–03and an “outcome” evaluation in 2003, when DFID funding ended. Students,teachers, principals, health providers, religious leaders, and parents wereasked to respond to questions about:• major reproductive health and nonreproductive health issues facingstudents• student knowledge of reproductive health issues and issues associatedwith maturing• students’ social and sexual behavior• students’ perspectives on and concerns about issues that have direct andindirect bearings on them• students’ ability to deal with peer pressure, their use of leisure time, andtheir preferred sources of information on reproductive health andHIV/AIDS• parents’ perspectives on reproductive health and other issues relatingdirectly and indirectly to their children• the place of LPE in the life of schools• teachers’ perspectives on students’ social and sexual behavior• types of services and support system available for meeting identified needs• preferences of different stakeholders for different strategies for resolvingproblems• health providers’ knowledge, attitude, and practice of adolescent reproductivehealth issues and services and their opinion about access to suchservices• the quality of health facilities in the community.(c) The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank