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Project
title:
HIV PREVENTION AND
CARE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IN KENYA
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Funding: Centre
for Disease Control (CDC)
Project
Number: U62/CCU024507 - 01
Goal
Project
goal is to reduce HIV transmission
among the youth.
Project
Objectives
The
project aims to promote youth
project in target sites to increase
participating among youth, parents,
religious leaders and community
leaders in youth friendly projects;
and promote abstinence, delay
of sexual debut and behavior
change among youth; improve
young people’s access to youth
friendly HIV/AIDS services.
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It will also increase
care and support services to
the infected and affected youth
and establish an effective referral
system in youth centers for
treatment of youth living with
HIV/AIDS; and improve network
among youth centers and organizations
working towards the reduction
of HIV/AIDS and other STIs among
the youth for information exchange,
and dissemination of lessons
learned.
Target
group
Youth
between 13 – 24 years of age
Implementation
areas
The
project is to be implemented
in the whole country. Currently
the project has been initiated
in 11 districts in Kenya.
Implementing
partners
The
project is being implemented
jointly by a consortium of 6
organizations: Other implementing
partners are: Kenya AIDS NGOs
Consortium (KANCO), National
Organization of Peer Education
(NOPE), Kibera Community Self-Help
Programme (KICOSHEP), Maendeleo
ya Wanawake Organization (MYWO),
Kenya Medical Association (KMA).
Achievements
Achievements
made since the project implementation
was initiated in October 2004
are:
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The project has been initiated
in 12 project sites in 11 districts
in Kenya
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Mapping of youth centres in
all the project sites have been
carried out to determine their
capacity
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Mapping of health facilities
to determine their capacity
to provide youth friendly services
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Youths trained as TOTs peer
educators in with representatives
from all project sites.
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Site maps have been developed
and printed
The
HIV Prevention and Care for
Young People in Kenya project
aims at reducing the level of
infection and impact of HIV
and AIDS among young people
in the country through behaviour
change, counseling among the
youth, and provision of VCT,
and to increase access to ART
and treatment of opportunistic
infections and sexually transmitted
infections among young people.
The youth are to be mobilized
through sector where they are
normally active, namely in transport
including matatu touts and bicycle
taxis (Boda Boda), tourism sector,
and in the fishing industry
(fishing villages).
Hosting
of workshops and Conferences
CCBI
hosts conferences and workshops
aimed at capacity building or
experience-sharing. Recent such
conference was held in Machakos,
Kenya to provide small community
based organizations and non-governmental
organizations and groups with
the skills of implementing UNDP
Small Grants Programmes in their
respective communities.
UNDP/SGP
STAKEHOLDER’S WORKSHOP
The
13th UNDP/SGP Stakeholders’
Workshop was held at the Garden
Hotel, Machakos, Kenya from
8th - 12th May 2005. The objectives
of the workshop were to introduce
the participants to the GEF/SGP
operations as a donor, educate
the participants on the GEF
thematic areas and operational
programmes, expose the participants
to the requirements or GEF/SGP
funding, educate the participants
on how to use participatory
Rural Appraisal (PRA) methodology
to identify areas of need within
the community, and hence identify
relevant projects; educate participants
on gender mainstreaming in all
stages of GEF/SGP project development
and implementation; educate
the participants in proposal
writing with special reference
to GEF funding; and educate
the participants on the importance
of clustering projects in order
to maximize impact with less
resources. The thematic
areas include Biodiversity Conservation,
Climate Change, Land Degradation,
International Waters, Multifaceted
Cross-Cutting areas, and Persistent
Organic Pollutants (POPs)
A
total of 26 participants comprising
of representatives from local
NGOs, CBOs and FBOs were invited,
and all attended the workshop.
Out of the 26 participants,
7 were female and 19 were male.
Seven resource persons
were invited to make presentations
on the various thematic areas
and the cross-cutting issues.
Presentations
from the resource persons were
mainly on the four thematic
areas of the UNDP/GEF SGP, and
cross-cutting issues including
gender issues in environmental
conservation, PRA approaches
and proposal writing.
Other
activities carried out by CCBI
include:
1.
Monitoring and evaluation
2.
Organizing and facilitation
of workshops, seminars, meetings
3.
Training (project management,
basic accounts and book-keeping,
4.
Project design
5.
Project implementation
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