Provide on-going support to BALANCED Trainees and PHE Practitioners

1.2 Provide on-going support to BALANCED Trainees and PHE Practitioners

Support to BALANCED trainees and PHE practitioners was provided remotely via email and in person during in-country visits by BALANCED personnel. The assistance provided was based on the post-training needs and gaps identified by workshop participants and trainers and the expressed needs of the partners. Key assistance provided during this reporting period is as follows: The CBD Training-of-Trainer TOT manual was revised to incorporate all changes noted in the two previous CBD TOT workshops—conducted in Tanzania in Year 1 and in Ethiopia in Year 2. Following up on the two CBD TOTs, a total of 21 CBD TOT participants received an electronic copy of the revised TOT curriculum entitled Guide for Training PHE Community-based Distributors, PHE Providers and PHE Adult Peer Educators Working on Integrated PHE Approaches 9 participants from the Ethiopia TOT—i.e., Amara Development Association ADA, Oromia Development Association ODA, CIPHE, LEM green Ethiopia, GPSDO, Christian Relief and Development Association CRDA and EWNRA; and 12 participants from the Tanzania TOT JGI, Aphia Coast, Engender Health, Saadani National ParkSANAPA, TCMP and the SPREAD Project—all of whom had email addresses. Related CBD training materials were also provided electronically as an added resource since most participants indicated an interest in using the methodology and the training manual and materials to strengthen their current PHE community-based program. Further, in response to two CBD TOT participants’ requests for assistance with youth peer education, PFPI sent them a copy of their youth peer education training materials developed under the Integrated Population and Coastal Resource Management Project IPOPCORM. Workshop participants were encouraged to use trained participants from previous workshops in conducting the PHE CBD and PE training activities within their organizations or region. Three individuals trained during the April 2009 PHE CBD TOT held in Tanzania used the PHE materials provided by BALANCED in their November 2009 training of CBDs in Pangani—evidence that the BALANCED materials are being used as a resource and trainees are building capacity of in-country counterparts. Hands-on and remote post-training follow-up was also provided to TCMP and two of its partners who attended the IEC workshop as they finalized and pre-tested the IEC materials developed during the workshop. Support to other IEC participants was been delayed—two participants left their positions and EWNRA, WCS-TZ and GPSDO will not be ready to finalize their draft IEC materials until 2010. Follow-up and technical support will be provided to WCS, JGI and other Tanzania participants Africare and AWF as needed during a March 2010 follow-up visit to Tanzania. As part of BALANCED post-training support to the PHE Program Design workshop, we: • Invited the 5 NGOs GPSDO, LEM Ethiopia, ADA, ODA, Engenderhealth and 2 networks CIPHE and CDRA to the November 2009 CBD TOT in Jimma, Ethiopia see IR3 section of this report. 13 • 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