SAfAIDS Transforming Lives
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SAfAIDS has applied for 75 million SEK to implement their regional strategy programme, Transforming the Policy Environment for Accelerating Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) by adolescents and young people, within an SDGs framework, in southern Africa 2018 – 2020.The overall goal of the intervention is to contribute towards a more cond...
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SAfAIDS has applied for 75 million SEK to implement their regional strategy programme, Transforming the Policy Environment for Accelerating Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) by adolescents and young people, within an SDGs framework, in southern Africa 2018 – 2020.The overall goal of the intervention is to contribute towards a more conducive policy environment that enables positive SRHR outcomes among adolescents and young women, in Southern Africa, by 2020. The proposed programme will realise 4 strategic objectives;- Policy Development: Support the development of Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Sexual Gender-based Violence (SGBV) Response Guidelines for Adolescents by Member States, by 2020,- Policy Advocacy: Advocate to SADC Member States to scale up prevention of unintended pregnancies and unsafe abortions among sexually active adolescents by 2020,- Social Accountability Monitoring: Strengthen the capacity of regional youth organisations and networks in social accountability monitoring of the delivery of youth-friendly SRH Information and services in Southern Africa, by 2020,- Evidence and Knowledge Sharing: Enhance knowledge sharing of models, innovations and strategies on Sexual Gender Based Violence (SGBV), unintended pregnancies and unsafe abortions among adolescents and social accountability monitoring within the region and across the broader sector by 2020. In regards to the budget, it is assessed that the proposed total budget of 75,000,000 SEK for this invention is sufficient, and reasonable to meet the planned outcomes. The allocated budget for the SAfAIDS six months inception phase is USD1,958,836 (SEK16,249,131). Six per cent (6%) of the inception budget relates to activities for a technical expert report, internal regional 2 day inception meeting, regional partner visit and regional and national sensitization meetings with key stakeholders. 28% of the program activities also relate to costs for arranging a regional rapid assessment on the adolescent Sexual Gender Based Violence (SGBV) related policy environment, organizing a meeting to develop an Assessment Methodology Protocol (AMP), conducting an induction meeting for assessment team, conducting a national meeting to validate the rapid assessment findings, regional meeting to validate the rapid assessment findings, developing a mobile social accountability monitoring application (including tech tools and systems) for SRHR in partnership with Rhodes University, develop a toolkit on social accountability monitoring for youth SRH Services and Technical Consultancy. Two per cent (2%) of the budget has been allocated to monitoring & evaluation and finance compliance and monitoring visits, while six per cent (6%) of the budget has been allocated to capital expenditure. Ten per cent (10%) of the budget relates to administration costs whilst 48% of the planned budget relates to staff costs. The reason for the high staff costs is a result of SAfAIDS not complying with MCP/PLGHA, which has resulted in SAfAIDS losing USAID funding that was contributing to SAfAIDS staff and administration costs of up to 16%. SAfAIDS receives funding from a diversified pool of funders that include Sweden, Hivos, Irish Aid, European Union, UNAIDS Regional, Stop AIDS Now, and USAID. The largest funders are Sweden and USAID who together contributed more than 60% of resources to SAfAIDS.
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It should be noted that a number of the results that are reported by SAfAIDS are from activities that are in conjunction with other organisations such as the UN, SADC, SADC PF and other CSOs. In some cases these organisations also receive direct funding from Sida. The following are some broad achievements from the No-cost extension phase 1st July 2021 - 31st March 2022: Strategic Objective 1 • Scaled-up regional multi-Ministerial dialogue on strengthening the SGBV policy environment, with commitments made by Ministry representatives to improve the policy environment in the SGBV response for adolescents and young people (AY&P) in SADC • Increased multi-sectoral dialogue towards greater collaboration between SRHR, legal and development experts, policy-makers, representatives of UN and development agencies, and the SADC Secretariat Gender Unit on advancing progressive SGBV policy-making • Increased actor-transformation among policy-makers from Ministries of Gender/Womens Affairs, Health and Education of 16 SADC Member States, who are more willing to debate and make decisions toward strengthening the SGBV policy response for AY&P in the region • Validation of the draft Regional Sexual Violence Response Guidelines for Adolescents and Young People in SADC, by SADC Member States, illustrating buy-in from policy-makers Strategic Objective 2 • Increased dialogue with Champions and Allies from 13 SADC Member States, generating recommendations towards the Regional Roadmap on Ending Unsafe Abortion and EUP. • Increased buy-in to the harmonised Regional Roadmap on Prevention of Unsafe Abortions and EUP, by Parliamentarians from 15 SADC countries • Scaled-up regional policy advocacy on ending unsafe abortions amongst adolescent girls and young women (AGYW), through the regional "My Choice, Our Choice" campaign - contributing to increased speaking-out by policy makers, religious and traditional leaders, in support of access to safe abortion Strategic Objective 3 • Increased uptake of, and demand for, social accountability monitoring methodologies (SAM4SRHR Model and MobiSAfAIDS App) by young people, youth-led CSOs, health care providers and Ministries of Health, in improving SRH service access by AY&P • Increased access to SRH services by AY&P, through the SAM4SRHR Model and MobiSAfAIDS App, with reported access to integrated contraceptives, HIV, GBV and safe abortion services. The improved health seeking behaviour and increased access to services is as a result of social mobilisation activities led by SAM4SRHR Youth Champions. Access to SRH services by AY&P increased by 25% during NCE phase, compared to Year 3 • Improved capability and agency among AY&P, and their organisations, in applying SAM approaches to mobilise their peers to access SRH services, track and monitor barriers to SRH service access and use SAM evidence in designing and leading advocacy actions targeting policy-makers and service providers. SAM4SRHR Youth Champions continued to be foot-soldiers of the SAM4SRHR Model • Strengthened AY&P and service provider interactions, and recorded high responsive rates among service providers in addressing SRH service access barriers raised by AY&P through the MobiSAfAIDS App. Strategic Objective 4 • Increased learning among young people on SAM4SRHR from wider audiences beyond primary target of TLives, through cohorts of the SAM4SRHR E-Course to increase number of technically sound young voices on SRHR accountability advocacy. 58 young people graduated from the course in 11 countries. • Increased Evidence Generation on SAM4SRHR, and Prevention of SGBV and Unsafe Abortion, to inform policy advocacy.
Transforming Lives is a 4.5 year regional policy and advocacy programme (2018-2023), which seeks to contribute towards a more conducive policy environment that enables positive SRHR outcomes among adolescents and young people in Southern Africa. The programme seeks to work at the regional level to influence policy in three thematic SRHR spheres of sexual gender-based violence, adolescent pregnancy and unsafe abortion with links to maternal mortality and access to youth friendly SRHR information and services. The programme will contribute directly to SDG 3 on Good Health and Well-being and SDG 5 on Gender Equality, and make linkages to targets under SDGs 10 and 16. The programme goal is to contribute towards a more conducive policy environment that enables positive SRHR outcomes among adolescents and young women in Southern Africa. The Programmes Strategic Objectives (SOs) are: Strategic Objective 1 (SO1): Support the development of SADC Sexual Gender-based Violence Response Guidelines for Adolescents and Young People by Member States, by 2023. Strategic Objective 2 (SO2): Advocate to SADC Member States to scale up Prevention of Early and Unintended Pregnancies and Unsafe Abortions among Sexually Active Adolescents, by 2023. Strategic Objective 3 (SO3): Strengthen the Capacity of Regional Youth Organisations and Networks in Social Accountability Monitoring of the delivery of Youth-friendly SRH Information and Services in southern Africa, by 2023. Strategic Objective 4 (SO4): Enhance knowledge sharing of models, innovations and strategies on SGBV, Early and Unintended Pregnancies (EUP) and Unsafe Abortions among Adolescents and Young People and SAM for SRHR within the region and across the broader sector, by 2023.
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