Stage

Objectives

Participants

Techniques

PREPARATORY PHASE

Establishing partnerships

• Identify the partners, define the roles, and complete the work contracts

Advocates for Youth, Mwangaza, Pacific Institute, and evaluators

Formal meetings

Identifying members of the technical committee

• Establish a technical committee to give feedback to the program

Advocates for Youth, Mwangaza, Pacific Institute, and evaluators

Informal meetings

Identifying the sites and gathering information

• Identify the sites for the program

Mwangaza

Review documents and information; informal meetings

Identifying youth organizations and gathering information

• Identify the youth organizations for the program

Mwangaza

Review documents and information; interviews

ORIENTATION PHASE

First meeting of the technical committee

• Give direction to the program
• Identify terms of reference for the committee
• Define committee’s tenure

Mwangaza, Advocates for Youth, Pacific Institute, and evaluators

Formal meeting

First orientation workshop with youth organizations

• Present and discuss program’s goals, objectives, intended results, and strategies
• Present and discuss main topics on youth’s sexual and reproductive health
• Present the progress, methodology, and stages of community participation
• Present and discuss characteristics of a good facilitator
• Develop an educational guide to community self-assessment
• Elaborate the plans of action

Mwangaza, Advocates for Youth, Pacific Institute and evaluators, and youth organizations

Workshop: group work, discussions, brain storming, presentations, dyads, role plays, drawings.

Update of collegues on the workshop

• Update colleagues on the workshop and share the methodology in detail in order to engage colleagues with the program
• Prepare for community-wide general meeting

Youth organizations

Work sessions

Baseline general indicators regarding youth’s reproductive and sexual health

• Gather data on the general indicators (to compare with information gathered at the program’s end)

Pacific Institute and evaluators, youth organizations

Questionnaire

Informal contact at the provincial level

• Meet the political and administrative authorities of the province
• Discuss and measure their interest in youth’s reproductive health issues and in the program itself

Mwangaza and political and administrative authorities

Informal meeting

Organizational self-assessment

• Identify the strengths, weaknesses, resources and needs of each youth organization

Youth organizations, Mwangaza

Formal meetings between Mwangaza and each youth organization

Informal peripheral contact

• Meet the district(s) leaders
• Discuss and measure their interests in youth’s reproductive health issues and in the program itself

Youth organizations, leaders

Informal meeting

General meeting of the village or community

• Inform and explain the program to the entire community; choose a village committee

Youth organizations, Mwangaza, and members of the village

Skit and discussions

First meeting with the village committee

• Plan the stages of the community self-assessment

Youth organizations, Mwangaza, village committee

To be determined by the youth organizations

ORGANIZATIONAL PHASE

Initial community self-assessment

• Explore the community’s needs and problems regarding youth’s reproductive and sexual health

Youth organizations, village committee

Workshop, group work

Enlarged community self-assessment

• Explore, in-depth, the needs and /problems from the view of members of the community (other than the village committee) regarding youth’s reproductive and sexual health

Youth organizations, village committee, other village members

Focus group discussions

Community self assessment classification

• Organize the needs and problems by category and sort them by priority

Youth organizations, village committees

Workshop, group work

Presenting the self-assessment results to members of the villages

• Present and discuss results of the self-assessment with all interested members of the villages

Village committees, members of the villages, youth organizations

Presentation and discussion

Second workshop with representatives of the youth organizations

• Discuss the organizations’ experiences in the last phase
• Share results of the self-assessments
• Share results of baseline1
• Guide participants through different types of youth-focused sexual and reproductive health programs, the project cycle, and behavior change
• Review how to: work with youth; improve facilitation techniques; and counter existing myths regarding youth’s reproductive and sexual health
• Elaborate a plan of action for the next steps

Mwangaza, Advocates for Youth, Pacific Institute and evaluators, youth organizations

Workshop: group work, discussions, brain storming, presentations, dyads

Update of collegues on the workshop

• Update colleagues on the workshop and share the methodology in detail in order engage colleagues with the program
• Prepare the next activity

Youth organizations

Work session

Formulating problems and goals and identifying barriers

• Reformulate primary problems, identify goals and barriers that interfere with obtaining the goals

Youth organizations, village committee

Workshop

Holding a general meeting of the village and /community

• Share with the community the problems, goals, and barriers

Youth organizations, members of the village and locality

Comic sketch and discussions

Identifying specific activities and objectives

• Identify activities that will address the main problems
• Prioritize the activities
• Design a Plan of Action to carry out the activities

Youth organizations, village committees

Workshop

Holding a general meeting of the village and community

• Share with the community the activities that will take place.

Youth organizations, members or the village and locality

Presentations, animation

Gathering baseline data for the activities

• Gather information relevant to the activities to compare with information gathered at the end of the program

Pacific Institute and evaluators, youth organizations, Mwangaza

Qualitative and quantitative methods

Conducting self-assessment at the organizational level

• Identify the strength, weaknesses, resources, and needs of each youth organization before starting activities with the communities

Youth organizations, Mwangaza

Formal meetings between Mwangaza and each youth organization

Conducting self-assessment at the committee level

• Identify the strength, weaknesses, resources, and needs of each village committee

Youth organizations

Informal meetings between the youth organizations and each village committee

Reinforcing the capacity of each association

• Reinforce the capacities of the associations’ members so they can carry out the activities with the communities

Mwangaza, Advocates for Youth, and youth organizations

On-site workshop

Reinforcing the capacities of the village committee members

• Reinforce the capacities of the members of the village committees to start the activities in the communities.

Youth organizations, village committees

Determined by youth organizations and village committees

Implementing the Plan of Action

• Establish the necessary tools for carrying out the actions and activities

Village committee, youth organizations, Mwangaza

Determined by each village committee

Following up on the activities and evaluating progress

• Measure the progress achieved
• Analyse the difficulties
• Research the solutions

Mwangaza, youth organizations, Advocates for Youth, Pacific Institute

Follow-up and information gathering tools

Gathering final information

• Measure the impact of community activities and changes in the health of youth and the competencies of the partners

Pacific Institute and evaluators, Mwangaza, Advocates for Youth, youth organizations

Qualitative and quantitative methods