Stop AIDS NOW!
World Population Foundation in collaboration with Stop Aids Now and its Headquarter in Netherlands has piloted a project in Pakistan “Evidence-based Planning and support tool for SRHR and HIV-prevention programmes for young people (E-PAT)”. The tool is developed by the World Population Foundation in collaboration with STOP AIDS NOW! and their partner organisations (Oxfam-Novib, Cordaid, HIVOS, ICCO, Edukans, Save the Children NL and the AIDSfonds) and Maastricht University (The Netherlands) and tailored to the experience and capacity of the organisations that will work with the tool. This tool provides a ‘blueprint’ of how organisations can most optimally design and evaluate SRHR/ HIV prevention/ life skills programmes for young people. The tool is based on the evidence and theories that already exist and provide us characteristics of programmes that have been effective in changing behaviour of young people, and/or created an environment that is supportive to their health and well being. The tool can be used to optimise the design and implementation of new intervention programmes, but can also be used for (self-)analysis of existing intervention programmes. The tool can be used both for school-based as well as for community based prevention programmes.
Purpose:
The aim of the pilot project in Pakistan is 3-fold:
- to train 7 partner organisations in Pakistan in using the E-PAT for self-review of their prevention programmes;
- to further develop the E-PAT into a user-friendly tool, that can be used in different contexts;
- to use the experiences of the training and the review-processes in Pakistan to design a training manual that will go along with the E-PAT.
Objective:
Partner organisations of STOP AIDS NOW! have learned about effective programs that aim at reduction in HIV infection in young people by strengthening their possibilities to make conscious choices to refuse, abstain, remain faithful or have safe sex and about effective systems to measure the results and the way in which the results can be used to improve their approach.
Activities:
The E-PAT has been introduced so far in South Africa, where the tool and intervention mapping as a planning model forms the basis of a learning track on Life Skills. As a next step of the project the tool has been pilot tested in Pakistan. To pilot the tool in Pakistan, initially 8 SRHR focused organizations were selected to build their capacity on the tool. For this purpose, WPF-Pakistan was selected to facilitate STOP AIDS NOW to further their project in Pakistan. The organizations selected for capacity building include; AAHUNG, AAS, DANESH, IHDCS, PAVHNA, PNAC, AMAN and WPF. The training was held in WPF’s office in Islamabad facilitated by two trainers one from WPF-Netherlands and the other from SAN.
After the successful accomplishment of the training, all the participants prepared their plans of action and have shared with STOP AIDS NOW! Out of which two organizations will be selected and funded to further the project in their respective organizations. |
