16 - Virtual and hands-on TA to TCMP on BCC communication plan and integrated IEC
messages, CBDPE job aid, monitoring PHE activities, workplanning, and WWC documentary on PHE activities in Pangani
- Hands-on TA to Pangani Health Office on youth activities and how to incorporate PHE into local government agendas and budget
- Hands-on TA to LEM and PHE Ethiopia Consortium staff on PHE activities in Girar Jarso woreda
- Virtual TA and hands-on TA to CRC and FON on revised the PHE action plan and fine-tuning of PHE activities in Shama and Ellembelle districts
- Hands-on TA to CEWEFIA and FON on CBDPE training and developing CBD supply system
- Hands on TA to ECHNTS on YPE activities - Virtual TA and hands-on TA to Leslie Lucas on YPE training and CBDPE systems
- Hands-on TA to PHE Fellow in Ethiopia on monitoring PHE activities - Hands-on TA to the PHE Fellow working for the Gorongosa National Park
Restoration Project in Mozambique on designing for behavior change, CBDPE systems, integrated IEC messages, PHE interventions and monitoring PHE activities
1.5 Provide technical support to ICM PHE Project
The BALANCED Project is partnering with Partners in Expanding Health Quality and Access hereafter Partners, on behalf of ExpandNet, to expand USAID’s global leadership in integrated
PHE activities by building the capacity of Pathfinder International and its partners on PHE scale- up as part of the Health of People and Environment in the Lake Victoria Basin HOPE-LVB
Project funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthurDavid and Lucile Packard Foundations and USAID. In addition to the subcontract with ExpandNet, BALANCED staff also
provides technical assistance TA to the HOPE-LVB project. During this reporting period the following technical support was provided:
ExpandNet PartnersExpandNet is helping Pathfinder, Ecological Christian Organizations ECO,
Conservation Through Public Health CTPH, and OSIENALA to develop and test two models of integrated interventions in Uganda and Kenya that have the potential for sustainability and can
be scaled-up to other districts in the regions, with the possibility of expanded relevance and replication for the other countries in the LVB region. During this reporting period, the following
was achieved by ExpandNet:
• Three ExpandNet team members traveled to the LVB regions of Uganda and Kenya from January 14 to February 8, 2012 to orient the HOPE-LVB implementing team on scaling-up
concepts that are discussed in ExpandNet tools and documents, to prepare the field work program, to reach consensus on issues to discuss with officials and community groups at the
17 proposed project sites and to meet key high-level stakeholders to discuss the HOPE-LVB
project. The trip also provided the opportunity to undertake preliminary planning for the monitoring and evaluation ME aspects of the project in consultation with Population
Reference Bureau PRB-sponsored consultants Lynne Gaffikin and Sally Timpson.
• When not in Africa, the ExpandNet team members provided virtual technical support to HOPE-LVB by: a reviewing literature on PHE in the project countries as a means to more
effectively design this integrated project for scale-up; b providing input on the project logframe, ME framework and indicators; c providing written feedback on several project
documents; and e assisting with substantive preparations for donor visits to the project.
• In collaboration with BALANCED Project Director, ExpandNet realigned its budget to cover additional days for Lynne Gaffikin, ME consultant, to accomplish the additional ME-
related tasks. This funding support allowed the consultant to help the HOPE-LVB team to develop indicators, data collection strategies and tools for monitoring and documenting
progress towards achieving scalability and evaluating the potential for scale-up at project end. Ms. Gaffikin also worked extensively with the baseline data collection team to
incorporate scalability concepts into the baseline and endline instruments.
• Laura Ghiron and Alexis Ntabona traveled to Uganda and Kenya from June 20 to July 6, 2012 to: a help the entire Uganda team take stock of project activities to date as they relate
to addressing sustainability and laying groundwork for future scaling-up; b discuss and begin preliminary process documentation; c review and provide input on the draft project
theory of change document, the draft value-added document, and the draft “project manual;” d orient new project partners on the ExpandNetWorld Health OrganizatonWHO scaling-up
framework and approaches; e meet with the baseline research team to orient them to ExpandNet tools and approaches and to give feedback on the baseline instruments before
their subsequent finalization; f conduct field visits and interview key stakeholders in Kenya project sites, and g meet with national level stakeholders in Nairobi from the National
Environment Management Authority Executive Director and colleagues, the National Council for Population and Development Executive Director and colleagues, the FHI360
Greenbelt Movement PHE Project Director, the International Union for Conservation of NatureIUCN PHE Project Representative and the Pathfinder Kenya Country
Representative.
BALANCED TA In addition to the technical input provided by the ExpandNet team, BALANCED staff will also
provide technical support to the HOPE-LVB Project. During this reporting period, the following technical assistance was provided:
• BALANCED staff provided virtual technical input on HOPE LVB project documents, proposed activities, including their advocacy presentation.
• Because he was in Uganda at the time, the BALANCED EAC was asked by Sono Aibe of Pathfinder International to facilitate their January 2012 HOPE-LVB team workshop that was
organized to select priority interventions for the HOPE-LVB Project. During the workshop, the EAC also provided input on HOPE-LVB’s health, environment, and advocacy
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their activities and corresponding budget. • The EAC traveled back to Uganda in March to assist HOPE-LVB staff to: a incorporate
select modules from the BALANCED PHE CBDPE TOT curriculum into Pathfinder and agro-forestry training manuals; b link proposed interventionsactivities within HOPE-LVB’s
conceptual model; c develop IEC messages, including integrated PHE messages as well as sector-specific messages that will be pretested at a later date; c identify potential job aids for
PEs, village health teams VHT, etc.; and d initiate a draft of their behavior change communication BCC plan.
• CRC developed a draft BCC plan that incorporated the draft IEC messages developed by the EAC and HOPE-LVB staff that Pathfinder could begin to revise with its partners and
complete during the next BALANCED TA visit with them. • Supported the participation of Lucy Shillingi, Pathfinder Country Uganda Representative to
attend CRCCI’s June course on Building Coastal Community Resilience: Population, Health and Environment Dimensions
see Activity 1.6 below. • Planned additional technical support on CRM, fisheries and BCC for the next quarter.
Results from Activity 1.5
• 5 HOPE-LVB partners incorporating ExpandNet scale-up methodology into their project activities CTPH, Pathfinder Uganda, Pathfinder Kenya, Osienala, ECO, Pathfinder HQ,
and Evaluation and Research Technologies for Health SO-1. • 16 9 male, 7 female HOPE-LVB staff and stakeholders trained on ExpandNet scale-up
methodology 1.1 • 5 HOPE-LVB staff training others on PHE and ExpandNet scale-up methodology CTPH
– 2; Pathfinder – 2; and ECO – 1 1.2 • 9 TA interventions to HOPE-LVB Project 1.4a
- Five ExpandNet TA interventions - Pathfinder Uganda 2 visits, Pathfinder Kenya 2 visits, CTPH 1 intervention
- ExpandNetME consultant TA on HOPE-LVB M E plan - BALANCEDEAC facilitating workshop and providing input on conceptual
framework and proposed interventions and activities - BALANCEDEAC assisting HOPE-LVB develop draft IEC messages
- BALANCEDCRC drafting HOPE-LVB BCC plan
• 5 new organizations receiving TA from BALANCED PathfinderUganda, Pathfinder Kenya, CTPH, ECO, OSIENALA 1.4b
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1.6 Support PHE Champions to attend CRC-CI’s “Building Leaders for Coastal Community
