Program objectives:
- Provide a forum for the youth and youth serving organizations working in adolescent/youth reproductive health to voice their needs and concerns;
- Represent the voice of adolescents and youth in policy discussions and in matters geared towards their reproductive health and development;
- Collaborate with religious organizations /leaders in addressing the reproductive health needs and concerns of adolescent and youth;
- Engage opinion leaders and policy makers to address and to influence the implementation of favorable adolescent and youth policies;
- Network with other agencies and organizations to advocate for the implementation of adolescent reproductive health and rights and provision of quality services;
- Research and document on the progress towards the implementation of adolescent policies in line with the national Adolescent Reproductive Health and Development policy, Children’s Act, Sexual Offense Bill and Sexuality Education Curriculum;
- Research and document gaps in the sexual reproductive health and rights policies and legislation.
Programs:
To achieve its goal, the project runs as follows.
-Advocacy Program: Religious leaders, opinion and policy makers are trained on how to infuse and integrate reproductive health information into sermons, emerging issues and the importance of involving youth in planning and management of religious institutions resources.
-Post Secondary Institution Program: The project works with peer educators in Teacher Training Colleges to disseminate information on HIV/AIDS. The strategies used here include: institution lectures, information corners and notice boards where students read and drop their questions on HIV/AIDS. The peer educators have been trained on mainstreaming gender into teaching programs.
-Peer Education/Participatory Education Theater Program: Since its inception, the project has trained over 60 peer educators. Currently, the project has embarked on expansion program on training in puppetry and theater. As a result, the peer educators have been able to effectively disseminate information on HIV/AIDS and reproductive health using participatory education theater (PET). The project is also planning on income generating activity where the peer educators make, will sell and stage performances at a fee. This puppetry project is used to: advocate for implementation of youth policies geared towards youth sustainability and development, advocate for gender equity and equality through development of specific characters enlisting support for women and youth in leadership, good governance and accountability, and counter stigma and discrimination, taboos and myths around human sexuality.
-Community Edutainment Program: The project employs participatory-education theater model through puppetry and folk media. Participatory Education Theater (PET) is an education-entertainment (E-E) model for community education and consensus building. It draws from the basic principles of theater, drama and folk media, but makes performances socially relevant and accessible to all people and their communities.
By improving knowledge on HIV/AIDS, providing educational materials, providing youth to youth “edutainment” through puppetry, folk media and other cultural communication and augmenting, these efforts with audio visual aids and outreach programs to promote voluntary counseling and testing, the crisis of HIV/AIDS among the youth could be alleviated and prevalence could come down.
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Provide:
-Training on Participatory Education Theater
employment and internship;
-Skills on puppetry manipulation and construction;
-Skills on networking and lobbying;
-Skills on writing scripts, position paper and lobbying letters;
-National and...
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Provide:
-Training on Participatory Education Theater
employment and internship;
-Skills on puppetry manipulation and construction;
-Skills on networking and lobbying;
-Skills on writing scripts, position paper and lobbying letters;
-National and international exchange;
-Advocacy and training of religious leaders;
-Planning and management of independent programs;
-Skills on fund-raising and proposal development.
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