Many of the projects documented in this Collection developed useful tools, such as manuals, presentations or training modules, that may be useful for other projects interested in adapting the described approaches to their particular contexts. On this page, you can find a list of these tools according to the publication to which they belong:
Going all-out for human rights and sexual health - Aiming for results in Burkina Faso
Toolbox: Going all-out for human rights and sexual health
Sexual and Reproductive Health
This is a kit of 11 teaching units (modules) which the GTZ developed in Burkina Faso. The programme uses it for activities of information/education campaigns on family planning, sexual and reproductive health, FGM etc. and also by community distributors of contraceptives.
Out of harm’s way - German support for countries reducing the harm of injecting drug use and HIV
Toolbox: Harm-Reduction
The GTZ-programme, run in partnership with the Ukrainian Ministry of Health and well-established NGOs, has launched a comprehensive training course for providers of services to female drug users in Ukraine. Women who use drugs often engage in sex work and are thought to act as a bridge for HIV to the wider population.
By mid 2009, this programme had sensitized some 50 members of NGOs with good early results: for example, the Chernivtsi NGO immediately doubled the number of female IDUs receiving its services, reaching around 600 women in August 2009. GTZ-backed capacity building for services for female drug users and Oral Substitution Therapy (OST) is thus helping regional agencies to implement critical elements of Ukraine’s national strategy.
Social marketing for health and family planning: Building on tradition and popular culture in Niger
Toolbox: Social Marketing
Aventures de Foula - Série 1
The first series of "Aventures de Foula", which contained 13 five-minute radio sketches (and 2 additional songs) was broadcast all over Niger over a fifteen week
period starting in February 2007.
Each episode was a mini-drama designed to inform and provoke thought
about risky sexual activity that can result in unwanted pregnancy and
disease, when to use condoms, how to get your partner to agree, early
marriage, forced marriage, and the
spacing of births.
These sketches had been broadcast by 46 radio stations at the rate of
one per week, three times per day every day for a combined total of
8,000 broadcasts. They had been accompanied by 600 radio debates where
invited guests focussed on issues raised by the sketches and, in some
cases, listeners called in to question and argue.
Produced in Niger’s three most commonly spoken languages (French,
Djerma and Hausa) the sketches were aimed mainly at young people 15 to
24 years old but were heard by their parents and grandparents, too, and
led to much discussion and debate within
families. Carefully organized and scheduled to go with them had been
8100 discussions in fadas groups of friends who get together, usually
in the evening, to exchange gossip and talk about other matters of
mutual interest guided by trained animators and attended by 185,000
young people. In addition, there had been 1200 discussions in school
classrooms and more than 17,500 students had participated.
TV spots and songs to target sexually active youth
In Niger, as in many other countries, the needs for family planning and health services tend to be greatest among the poorest and least educated people in rural areas. However, the needs for HIV prevention tend to be greatest among the richest. and best educated people in urban areas. They may be better informed about HIV and how to prevent it but, still, they engage in more high-risk sexual activity (e.g., with non-cohabiting partners including sex workers) and, while they may know they should wear condoms, they fail to wear them often enough that they are at high risk of acquiring HIV.
With that in mind, the Social Marketing Project has targeted sexually active youths right across Niger with television spots and songs featuring Mali Yaro, ZM and other popular entertainers. The television spots are more likely to reach those in urban areas but the songs can be played on radio and reach at least some young adults in rural areas.
(Click the links below to open and close the videos - with fast
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In 2004, the project ANIMAS-SUTURA produced French, Djerma and Hausa versions of a 52-minute video on DVD (or CD) called “Realité de SIDA en Niger”, which features medical doctors and other experts providing basic information about STIs, HIV and AIDS and other sexual and reproductive health issues. This video continues to be used in schools and other venues.
Cashing in - How cash transfers shore up Zambian households affected by HIV
Evidence shows that social cash transfers (small, regular payments) are a cost-effective tool for helping needy households, promoting health and education and boosting local economies – at least, in middle- and high-income countries.
Bringing the AIDS Response Home: Empowering district and local authorities in Lesotho, Tanzania and Mpumalanga
In this report, three different yet complementing experiences of strenthening local and provincial governments’ responses to HIV and AIDS in Eastern and Southern Africa are presented.
How unwed young mothers become advocates, teachers and counsellors in Cameroon
The Aunties Programme empowers young mothers who got pregnant in
their teens to reach into their villages or urban neighbourhoods in
order to provide adolescents with sex education and counselling on
sexual and reproductive health
Toolbox: Aunties
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Responding to what Young People really want to know
Developing Question-Answer Booklets on Sexuality, HIV and AIDS with Young People
This publication presents a participatory and youth-oriented method
of communication for behaviour change, involving youths at all stages
of the development, production and distribution of a series of booklets
on sexuality, HIV and AIDS.
Involving People Living with HIV: Support to PLWH Organisations in Cameroon
This report describes a number of promising practices through which
PLWH organisations in Cameroon have been empowered to play a central
role in their country’s AIDS response.
HIV Prevention in Basic Education: The heart of a community-based AIDS response in Francophone Africa
This publication presents three basic education projects in Chad,
Mali, and Guinea, that have – based on a multisectoral approach –
included HIV prevention in their activities and thus created a
comprehensive local AIDS response.
Medical Dialogue: How to kick-start a joint AIDS response by health workers and traditional healers
The Medical Dialogue is a stepwise approach to bridging the gap
between scientific thinking and cultural traditions, setting the stage
for more effective prevention and treatment campaigns.
Toolbox: Medical-Dialogue
Medical Dialogue between Health Workers and Traditional Healers
