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Resources On Youth Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS

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IYWG Events at "Youth Deliver the Future": Peer Education, 
Working with Faith Organizations, and 
Curricula-Based Standards
April 28-30, 2008
Abuja, Nigeria

Sponsored by The Johns Hopkins University/Gates Institute, the "Youth Deliver the Future" conference sought to provide an international forum on meeting the health and developmental needs of young people in low-resource settings. Family Health International (FHI) and the IYWG conducted a panel on working with faith-based organizations; a panel on implementing effective youth peer education projects; a presentation on developing standards for curricula-based sex education; a workshop on using faith-based tools; and a workshop to improve peer education program management. 

 

Panel on Faith-based Approaches

This panel provides an overview of interventions working through faith-based organizations, using family life education materials from a Christian or Muslim perspective.

Monday, April 28, 8:30 AM: Faith-based Groups Help Parents and Others Approach Taboo Subject of Sexuality through New Curricula

Facilitator and Presenter: Lucy Steinitz, FHI/Namibia

Panel on Peer Education

This panel presentation provides an overview of research evidence, key program issues, and policy approaches, using case studies from Kenya and Tanzania.

Monday, April 28, 10:45 AM: Youth Peer Education in Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS: How to Build Effective Projects

Facilitator and Presenter: Maryanne Pribila, FHI/Kenya

Presentation on Sex Education Standards

This presentation focuses on the development and application of the first evidence-based global document of standards to guide sex and HIV education curriculum in developing countries.

Tuesday, April 29, 10:45 AM: Developing Global, Evidence-based Standards for Sex and HIV Education Curriculum for Youth

Presenter: Bill Finger (FHI), "Utilizing Research on Sex and HIV Education Programs in Developing Countries" (2008, PDF, 320 KB)

Workshop on Faith-based Tools

Wednesday, April 30: Faith-based Work with Youth: Using New Christian- and Muslim-based Curricula
 
Attended by more than 60 people, this experiential workshop reviewed the new Family Life Education curricula designed to encourage open discussion about sexuality, reproductive health, and HIV in the context of Christian or Muslim faith communities. Participants created action plans to help develop program activities that might utilize these or similar curricula. To learn more about faith-based programming and available resources, click here.

Workshop on Peer Education

Wednesday, April 30: Peer Education: What Program Planners Need to Know and Do

While large investments are being made in youth peer education (YPE), more rigorous attention is needed in planning, managing, and monitoring this type of intervention. More than 50 people attended this workshop to address these issues and learn how to apply the YPEER toolkit, developed by FHI working with UNFPA/YPEER, to their youth peer education program. Participants then developed an action plan for their situations. To learn more about youth peer education and available resources, click here.

 

 

 

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