Leadership, Management and Sustainability Program ... - part - usaid

2. Strengthening leadership capacities of youth in Cite Soleil – Youth Oriented LDP
(YOLDP)
The YOLDP was offered to 23 youth on three
teams from FOSREF and MAEC (both
volunteers and peer educators involved in the
Cité Soleil community – 18 boys and 5 girls)
over the course of several months. The three
teams learned basic theories and practices of
leadership and management, and how to apply
these to their own situations. Through the
application of the Challenge Model (depicted in
the graphic to the right) the teams of youth
identified their vision for their community’s
future, their current situation, obstacles and root
causes preventing them from achieving their
vision, and priority actions they could take to
overcome these obstacles. Each team chose one
measurable result that would help them move
closer to their vision. The participants began to
address the HIV/AIDS-related challenges they
were facing in their neighborhoods by choosing
measurable results that would have an impact in
their own communities. They drew up action
plans, reached out to attract and mobilize other community members, and held trainings and
awareness-building activities. On September 19, 2009, the three teams presented the results of
their work and the changes that they had helped bring about in their community through their
participation in the LDP. The three participating teams from Cité Soleil had:
Provided 4,450 young people ages 10-24 with training on HIV/AIDS prevention;
Trained another 252 young people on issues related to HIV/AIDS discrimination and
stigmatization;
Trained 90 youth as peer educators to do further outreach on HIV/AIDS prevention,
sexually transmitted infections and preventing teen pregnancy.
In the LDP, successful graduation is measured at the level of the team. All three youth teams
successfully completed the program and received a certificate of graduation at the results
presentation.
3. Capacity building in Leadership and Management within the MSPP
Teams from the ten departments of the Ministry of Health and Population participated in an LDP
from March through September 2009 in an effort to strengthen the leadership and management
skills of the program managers in these ten departments. Split into two groups of five teams (five
Northern departments and five Southern departments) the teams participated in a joint Senior
Alignment meeting, the subsequent four training workshops with coaching interspersed between
them, and a joint results presentation session.
Annual Report
2008-2009/PEPFAR
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