• In response to a request from GPSDO, an NGO in Ethiopia receiving financial support
from the Packard Foundation to implement PHE activities in the Guraghe region, BALANCED provided hands-on mentoring to GPSDO staff by reviewing their PHE
activities and helping them to hone their PHE framework.
• Provided hands-on assessment and support to EWNRA to improve their action plan for
integrating family planning and reproductive health into its wetlands conservation and natural resources management project. Based on the program and financial assessment,
a seed grant was given to EWNRA see IR3 section of this report.
• Funded CIPHE to translate the Designing and Implementing Integrated Approaches to
Population, Health, and Environment PHE: Workshop for Planners and Managers - Participant Manual into Amharic. The manual was developed by Camp, Dresser
McKee CDM International in efforts to create a replicable workshop model that will build local sources of PHE expertise to design and implement cross-sectoral and
integrated approaches to population, health and environment. It was pretested in 2008 in a workshop with NGO personnel currently involved in the implementation of field-
based family planning, health and environment activities and projects in Ethiopia. CIPHE indicated an interest in conducting PHE Program Design workshops for its
members and needed participant materials in Amharic.
Results from Activity 1.2 include: •
JGI and the Spread Project CBD TOT trainees received IPOPCORM’s youth peer education training materials not included in PMP
• TCMP received both hands-on and remote technical support in finalizing and
pretesting draft IEC materials developed during the IEC workshop •
GPDSO and EWNRA received hands-on and remote technical support following CDM’s 2008 PHE Program Design workshop
• 3 participants from the Year 1 CBD TOT workshop using BALANCED CBD
training materials to train local PHE providers and CBDs for the Pangani District
1.3 Conduct South-to-South exchange visit with decision-makers and policy- makers
During this reporting period, preparations to conduct the South-to-South Learning Exchange on PHE SSE-PHE were underway
.
The purpose of the exchange visit is to expose strategically selected representatives from governments and NGOs who have the
power to make decisions about resource allocation, program implementation and priority- setting, to the “Gold Standard” PHE interventions in the Philippines. All exchange
participants will learn how PHE integration is achieved at the individual and institutional levels by talking to Filipino government and NGO leaders who supported and
implemented PHE in their districts, discussing details of implementation with project implementers and program recipients fisher folks, peer educators, CBDs, and family
planning acceptors, and observing the benefits that PHE activities have generated for the entire community. During the visit, participants will also prepare countrysite-specific
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action plans that outline their commitment to integrating PHE in their own programs andor local policies. These plans will help the BALANCED Project tailor specific
technical assistance follow-up to the exchange visit participants. The concept paper and program of activities for the exchange were prepared in close
collaboration with the BALANCED Project’s USAID Technical Advisor see attached Annex 1: Concept paper for SSE-PHE.
A list of potential participants from three BALANCED focus countries was developed and submitted to USAID in September.
However, many of the proposed candidates were not deemed appropriate and the October SSE-PHE was postponed until February 2010.
In coordination with USAID PHE Technical Advisor, BALANCED continued to develop and revise the list of potential SSE-PHE candidates by talking to the PHE community,
PHE Fellows, BALANCED Advisory Committee, Policy and Practice Meeting members, local PHE networks in Ethiopia, USAID Missions and with organizations involved in the
USAID-supported Coral Triangle Initiative CTI. A new list of candidates was developed that included representatives from key government agencies and NGOs who would be
instrumental in supporting and expanding the implementation of PHE in four BALANCED focus countries Tanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya, Ghana and the Coral Triangle CT region. In
December, USAID approved the list of priority participants and invitations were sent. Results from Activity 1.3 include:
• 8 representatives from NGOs andor government officials identified and invited to
the SSE-PHE in February 2010
1.4 Build capacity of NGOs from CT countries on PHE Program Design
