2019 Action and Youth Category Template SADC PROTOCOLWORK

2019 Action and Youth Category Template SADC PROTOCOL@WORK SUMMITS (South Africa, Gauteng, June 2019, Nontyatyambo Makapela) Sister. Love International South Africa 3 A/5 Eton Road, Parktown, Johannesburg, 2193 011 -4822202 “Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence. ”

SYNOPSIS • i. STARSHIPP (Innovation Strategies for Those at Risk Seeking High Impact Prevention and Pr. EP) is our flagship project implemented in Gauteng and Kwa. Zulu-Natal from 2017. • We utilise a basket of innovative strategies to engage adolescents and youth on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SHRH) focusing on access to services and age-appropriate information. “Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence. ”

OBJECTIVES • i. STARSHIPP project aims to achieve the following objectives: • To strengthen capacity of community based organisations (CBOs) to incorporate and deliver enhanced high impact HIV prevention services to adolescents and youth. • To increase access and linkages to community-based HST and prevention services for adolescent girls and boys. • To raise awareness on Pr. EP as an HIV prevention tool among adolescent girls. “Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence. ”

ACTIVITIES • The project is implemented through the following interventions: • Healthy Love Parties workshops (HLPs) for adolescent girls and boys as well as young women and men • Prevention Options for Women at Risk (POWa. R) Focus Group Discussions • Screen, Identify and Link to Care (SILC) • Training of Trainers workshops for CBOs “Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence. ”

PARTNERS • Sister. Love International South Africa partnered with many CBOs in both provinces: • Faith based organisations • Government department (Do. H) • Youth-led organisations • LGBTI groups and organisations • Women’s rights organisations • Home Based Care organisations • National campaigns (She. Conquers) • National organisations such as South African Red Cross Society “Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence. ”

BUDGET Amount in $ Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) $260 000, 00 Adolescent Boys and Young Men (ABYM) $86 150, 00 CBOs capacity building $42 857, 14 Workshops refreshments (x 4 districts) $33 892, 86 Transport for beneficiaries and venue hire for workshops $27 357, 14 Total $450 257, 14 “Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence. ”

BENEFICIARIES Category Women Men Total % Women Community Based Organisations 95 6 101 94 Adolescent Girls and Young Women 3, 133 0 3, 133 100 Adolescent Boys and Young Men 0 517 0 Total 3, 228 523 3, 751 86 “Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence. ”

MONITORING AND EVALUATION • How do you monitor the success of the project? • An external evaluator was commissioned to assess impact of the project and identify areas of improvement going forward. An evaluation report was shared with all CBOs that participated in the project. • What types of monitoring and evaluation methods and tools did you use to measure impact? • Pre- and post test questionnaires were given to participants at each workshop • An evaluation form was issued at the end of the workshops. A Love letter was attached to this evaluation workshop where adolescents and youth would reflect on the discussions in a language they are comfortable with. • Meetings with participating CBOs were held to discuss progress and challenges encountered during implementation. “Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence. ”

RESULTS • The following result were achieved over 16 months: • Training of 101 CBO Facilitators to engage adolescent girls and boys on HIV prevention using the Healthy Love Parties (HLPs) in their communities. • Facilitate HLPs for 3, 133 adolescent girls and 517 adolescent boys in both provinces. • 200 adolescent girls took HIV test during i. STARSHIPP implementation. • 60 CBOs trained to provide comprehensive care to adolescents and youth on HIV using SILC (Screen, Identify and Link to Care) approach • 2, 046 girls and young women participated in focus group discussions on linkages between Gender Based Violence (GBV) and HIV “Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence. ”

CHALLENGES AND LESSONS LEARNT • What have been the main challenges? How have these challenges been overcome? • The main challenge in the project was the delay in the start of the project, which resulted in project staff working hard to meet targets in less available time. The Department of Health had to ensure that communities where we will promote access to Pr. EP, local clinics have stock available for girls and young women to access it. As staff were working on weekdays and weekends to reach targets, the organisation ensured their wellbeing was prioritised through staff accessing retreat and wellness services. • What lessons have been learned? • Approvals from government take time, and ample time should be allocated for this exercise in project planning. • It is important to ensure product availability and accessibility for beneficiaries before you raise awareness about it. • How will the learning be applied? • Strengthening relationships with government- at all levels- is critical for the success of the project. After project evaluation, we are building and strengthening relations with various government officials- from local councillor to the national office, to ensure smooth implementation of the project. • We are increasing our visibility at municipal stakeholder forums to connect with more organisations working at community level. “Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence. ”

SUSTAINABILITY AND REPLICATION • How can the work be sustained/kept going? • CBOs that participated in the project need sustained support in developing relevant and appropriate SRHR programs targeting adolescents and youth. This can be done through building capacity of key staff working directly with adolescents and youth in the organisation. • Relationships with relevant municipal department are strengthened to sustain the work done thus far. • How can the work be cascaded to other organisations? • Sister. Love International South Africa aims to engage community stakeholder forums where a number of organisations convene to discuss and share their work. This is where we will reach more organisations who have not participated in this project yet. “Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence. ”

NEXT STEPS • Revisit organisations capacitated to assess progress and challenges. Main aim is to provide support needed in program development. • Strengthen relationships with relevant municipal departments so that CBOs are able to access support from local government • Map out stakeholder forums and engage secretariat of these forums to access CBOs to participate in i. STARSHIPP project. “Voice and Choice! Empower women, End Violence. ”