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Tools Together Now! 100 Participatory Tools to Mobilise Communities for HIV/AIDS

This is part two of a two-part community mobilization toolkit for HIV/AIDS that helps communities to become actively and influentially involved in addressing the causes and effects of HIV and AIDS.

The resources are:

• All Together Now! Community mobilization for HIV/AIDS guides you through the process of mobilizing communities to address HIV prevention, care, support, impact mitigation and treatment for those affected by HIV and AIDS.

• Tools Together Now! 100 participatory tools to mobilize communities for HIV/AIDS is a set of participatory exercises designed to help put All Together Now! into practice. In this resource, there is a selection of 100 participatory learning and action (PLA) tools which you can use for HIV/AIDS programs. PLA tools are interactive activities which enable communities and organizations to learn together about HIV/AIDS in their community, develop a plan, act on it and evaluate and reflect on how it went. The philosophy of this set of publications is that organizations and communities have to work as closely together as possible if they are to address HIV/AIDS successfully.

This toolkit was specifically designed for communities and organizations to use alongside All Together Now! Community Mobilization for HIV/AIDS to: Uul>

  • Start together to address HIV/AIDS
  • Assess the HIV/AIDS situation together
  • Make a plan together
  • Implement the plan together
  • Evaluate that plan together
  • Decide what they want to do next together
  • Scale up action on HIV/AIDS together.

Source: International HIV/AIDS Alliance

Date of Publication: November 29, 2020

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Change Starts at Home B.I.G Change Curriculum

The Change Starts at Home intervention was created in Nepal to address the large percentage of women affected by intimate partner violence. Focused on an innovative radio program and weekly listening and discussion group meetings, the Change Starts at Home approach uses media and peer to peer support to address social norms, attitudes, and behaviors that perpetuate and support intimate partner violence.

At the heart of the approach is this BIG (B: Begin to Question, I: Impart Life Skills and G: Go!) Change curriculum. This 9 month, interactive curriculum was developed for the facilitators of the Change Starts at Home Listening and Discussion Groups (LDGs). It is designed to support weekly facilitated sessions with group members that run in parallel to the radio program.

Change Starts at Home is one of the first interventions of its kind in Nepal to take a multi-pronged approach to IPV, working simultaneously with couples, families and community leaders to drive a change in community attitudes towards violence against women and girls. Whilst the project’s main objective is to give married couples the knowledge, skills, and space to safely address power imbalances in their relationships, the impact is reinforced by activities that aim to bring couples, their family members and community leaders together in a movement to change social attitudes and practices towards girls and women in Nepal.

The impact of the project is being rigorously evaluated using a Randomised Control Trial to examine potential pathways of change.

The project is implemented by Equal Access International and funded by UK aid from the UK government, via the What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls Global Programme. The funds were managed by the South African Medical Research Council. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect the UK government’s official policies.’ The BIG Change Curriculum is also available in Nepali. For more information contact gferguson@equalaccess.org / Bshrestha@equalaccess.org

Source: Equal Access International

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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Implementing Integrated Population, Health and Environment Interventions in the Lake Victoria Basin

The HoPE-LVB Project employs a PHE approach that gives underserved families and communities living in the Lake Victoria Basin the knowledge and skills to improve their health, reduce poverty and increase their capacity to sustainably manage natural resources.

The aim of this training curriculum is to help HoPE-LVB build the technical knowledge and skills needed to support implementation of cross-sectoral integrated PHE activities among community leaders and members, as well as local government partners and other NGO colleagues who are interested in replicating the HoPE-LVB model throughout the Lake Victoria Basin and beyond.

The curriculum is designed for a 3.5 day training but in some communities depending on the capacity to absorb the content, it may take longer. The trainer should design the training based on adequate knowledge about the trainees. The Curriculum contains 13 modules.

Source: Pathfinder International

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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Counseling the Obstetric Fistula Patient: A Training Curriculum

The goal of this curriculum is to prepare service providers at all levels to provide information and counseling to fistula clients, including referral for treatment and recovery services and counseling for related issues outside their usual scope of work.

As a result of this training, providers will be able to use communication and counseling skills to perform the following counseling tasks:

  • Assess the client’s needs and concerns
  • Provide accurate information on the following: what a fistula is, the causes of fistula, means of preventing fistula, and treatment and self care for fistula; pre- and post-operative fistula care
  • Provide support to the client and her partner/family, as appropriate before, during, and after fistula repair
  • Help the client make decisions about family planning, prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, and receipt of other reproductive health services
  • Provide counseling to the client’s partner and/or family (when available and with the client’s permission)

Source: EngenderHealth

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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Counseling the Traumatic Fistula Client

This supplement complements the counseling curriculum to address the physical, social, and psychological impacts specific to traumatic fistula. The supplement also provides information on how health care providers working with traumatic fistula clients can seek support for themselves. Much of the content in that curriculum is also applicable to counseling the traumatic fistula client. However, because traumatic fistula is the result of sexual and gender-based violence, additional or different issues also need to be addressed in the training. Much of the training deals with sensitizing the counselor to the trauma which the patient has endured.

Source: EngenderHealth

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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Cultivons Les Relations

This is the French language version of “Nurturing Connections.”

The Nurturing Connections curriculum for gender and nutrition, initially developed by Helen Keller International (HKI) in Bangladesh, was inspired by the peer-based “Stepping Stones” program addressing HIV/AIDS and sexual health in Africa. Both approaches recognize that behavior change is a process that requires internalizing new concepts, that gender norms are driven by community norms and group dynamics, and that adults learn best through action and experience. The curriculum can be adapted to other contexts in Asia. A French language edition, Cultivons les Relations, was developed and tested in West Africa by HKI and the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW).

Nurturing Connections draws on HKI’s decades of experience implementing Enhanced Homestead Food Production (EHFP), an intervention that has been used to empower women in their capacity to produce and contribute to household income while improving the quality and diversity of nutrition for their children and themselves. Nurturing Connections supports not just young women, but also their husbands, fathers-in-law and mothers-in-law, as all family members as well as the surrounding community must work together to confront and overturn gender-based discrimination. The process involves a series of facilitated discussions of two to three hours in length are conducted in each community among peer groups: a group of women (beneficiaries), a group of their husbands, and a group of influential elders.

The curriculum consists of four “Blocks”, or topics, each of which is delivered in weekly discussions over a four week period: 1. Let’s Communicate; 2. Understanding Perceptions and Gender; 3. Negotiating Power; and 4. Acting for Change.

Source: Helen Keller International

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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Curriculum for Methods of Contraception: Post-partum and Post-Abortion

This curriculum is from the Healthy Women of Ukraine (HWUP) program. The goal of HWUP, which runs from 2011-2016, is to protect the reproductive health of Ukrainian women and couples by increasing the appropriate and effective use of modern methods of contraception as an alternative to unintended pregnancy and associated abortion. HWUP was a follow-on project to an earlier program, Together for Health, which ran from from 2006-2011.

Evaluation of the project thus far shows the following;

  • 7.8 million Ukrainians have been reached with the program’s messages
  • More than 25,000 people, mainly youth, have participated in FP/RH education sessions
  • 87% of education session participants plan to use modern family planning methods in the future
  • The number of access points for family planning and reproductive services has increased more than 300% in HWUP partner oblasts
  • More than 2,600 health care providers have been trained in modern family planning approaches and counseling

This is a curriculum for a 3-day training on methods of contraception during the post-partum and post-abortion period. It includes a description of what should be covered on each day and was developed to train healthcare providers who provide FP/RH services to improve their quality of service for women in the post-partum and post-abortion period

Source: Healthy Women of Ukraine Program (HWUP)

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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Trainers Manual for “Grow Healthy”

This material is from the Healthy Women of Ukraine (HWUP) program. The goal of HWUP, which runs from 2011-2016, is to protect the reproductive health of Ukrainian women and couples by increasing the appropriate and effective use of modern methods of contraception as an alternative to unintended pregnancy and associated abortion. HWUP was a follow-on project to an earlier program, Together for Health, which ran from from 2006-2011.

This is a manual for trainers in the framework of the educational program “Grow Healthy.” This manual is for teachers and social workers who will further work with teenagers and youth on FP/RH issues.

Source: Healthy Women of Ukraine Program (HWUP)

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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TOT Curriculum: Modern Aspects of Family Planning

This curriculum is from the Healthy Women of Ukraine (HWUP) program. The goal of HWUP, which runs from 2011-2016, is to protect the reproductive health of Ukrainian women and couples by increasing the appropriate and effective use of modern methods of contraception as an alternative to unintended pregnancy and associated abortion. HWUP was a follow-on project to an earlier program, Together for Health, which ran from from 2006-2011.

Evaluation of the project thus far shows the following;

  • 7.8 million Ukrainians have been reached with the program’s messages
  • More than 25,000 people, mainly youth, have participated in FP/RH education sessions
  • 87% of education session participants plan to use modern family planning methods in the future
  • The number of access points for family planning and reproductive services has increased more than 300% in HWUP partner oblasts
  • More than 2,600 health care providers have been trained in modern family planning approaches and counseling

This is a curriculum to teach trainers how to train health care professionals about the modern aspects of FP. The training program on modern aspects of FP was developed in order to to improve the professional skills of health care providers.

Source: Healthy Women of Ukraine Program (HWUP)

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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Sawa Sawa Positive Prevention

This training material is one of two materials produced for Sawa Sawa, an HIV programme implemented by the Health Communication Capacity Collaborative (HC3) in the Sofala Province of Mozambique. The program ran from January 2017 – December 2017, and sought to reduce stigma in communities in order to improve health seeking behaviors for HIV services, particularly among men.

The program ran Positive Prevention groups for people living with HIV (PLHIV), which were designed to teach clients about the difference between CD4 and viral load and the importance of viral suppression, as well as provide a supporting environment for PLHIV.

In addition, the program led community dialogues which are described in Sawa Sawa: A Community Dialogue Manual to Reduce Stigma.

The goals of the Sawa Sawa Positive Prevention training are for the participants to:

  • Be acquainted with the Sawa Sawa Positive Prevention tool and its objectives
  • Have created an environment where there is confidentiality and all feel welcome
  • Reflect on the reasons that cause men to take less care of their own health
  • Assess the importance of men taking care of their health

The key messages of the session are:

  • It is a man’s responsibility to take care of his own health and the health of his partner.
  • It is important for men to seek health services and guide other men to do the same, in order to:
    • Use condoms to avoid transmitting the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to their partner
    • When having a sign/symptom of a sexually transmitted infection (STI), preventing the disease from getting worse or transmitting it to their partner

Source: PEPFAR, USAID, Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Date of Publication: March 25, 2019

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