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3.5 Provide one seed and technical support to one conservation NGO

During Year 3, BALANCED worked to identify another conservation organization that would be interested in integrating health and family planning into their programs and could benefit from some financial and technical support to achieve this objective. To date, we have explored potential seed grant opportunities for the CRC Ghana program, conservation groups in Uganda, the Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, and in Senegal. Currently, the CRC Ghana project does not need seed grant funding; BALANCED has conducted discussions but not identified a suitable Ugandan NGO; in the Gorongosa National Park, activities cannot begin until the USAID bilateral funding is secured; and CRC still awaits final award from USAID Senegal for its program there. For the next reporting period, BALANCED will follow-up with Gorongosa National Park and initiate discussion with the Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program in Papua New Guinea. It will also continue discussions with an NGO in Tanzania that is eager to initiate PHE activities, but that lacks the funding to do so. Further, BALANCED will contact its Advisory Committee members and other key PHE leaders to help identify a good candidate for this seed grant. Results from Activity 3.5 • None Status of PMP Indicators for Activity 3.5 INDICATOR Reporting Period Year 3 Target SO-1: Number of target organizations incorporating PHE tools, protocols, etc. into their work PRH 1.1 1 1.1 Number of individuals trained by BALANCED in PHE know- how and SOTA State of the Art practices using 21st century learning tools 10 1.2 Number of participants who received BALANCED training andor mentoring that are now providing training or TA to others on PHE implementation 2 1.3 Number of new andor strengthened partnerships established and actively involved in advancing and supporting wider use of PHE approaches as a result of BALANCED capacity-building activities 1 1.4 Number of technical interventions provided by BALANCED to Missions and organizations to implement PHE in their programs PRH 3.2 1

3.6 Provide technical support to PHE activities in Ghana

The USAIDGhana Mission recently awarded URI-CRC the four-year ICFG project, which is sees as part of a longer-term investment in fisheries reform. ICFG will use an integrated CRM approach to address declining fish stocks and food security in Ghana’s Western region and to 46 build the capacity of local and national government to support fisheries reforms. This approach is similar to the interventions used by the IPOPCORM Program in the Philippines. The ICFG Project is targeting six districts in the Western region—Ahanta West, Sekondi-Takoradi, Nzema East, Jomoro, Ellembele, and Shama. BALANCED is providing technical support to integrate CBFP into two of these ICFG sites. In June, a BALANCED consultant visited ICFG sites and assessed how and where CBFP could best be integrated into the ICFG project and helped with fine tuning the Friends of the Nation FoN’s conceptual framework upon which the PHE activities would be based. During this reporting period, BALANCED provided long-distance support to FoN on the finalization of the PHE implementation plan in Ellembele and Shama districts. In Ellembele, FoN will train nursing students from the Esiama Training Institute for Community Health Nurses to do PHE outreach, to serve as YPEs and promoters of reproductive health and pro-environment messages, and to refer youth to the local Ghana Health services for contraception. In Shama district, FoN will work with a USAID funded Health Keepers Network HKN to promote FP through their commissioned sales agents that distribute a basket of public health commodities including contraceptives condoms and pills, oral rehydration salts, water purification tablets, malaria nets, etc. FoN has already oriented its partner, the Central and Western Fishmongers Improvement Association CEWEFIA, the local Ghana Health Service MoH, and community stakeholders village chiefs and elders about PHE and the PHE activities that will take place within the ICFG project. FoN has requested BALANCED technical assistance with YPE training and IEC activities, which PFPI will provide in March or April 2011.

3.7 Implement recommendations from the Glacier Melt Study