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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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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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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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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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