14 In Shama, PHE activities will include: 1 training the Central and Western Fishmongers
Improvement Association CEWEFIA on community-based distribution; 2 distributing reprinted BCS communication materials during community mobilization activities and
house-to-house visits; and 3 engaging CEWEFIA and other USAID CAs in Hen Mpoano’s radio drama panel when health topics are covered in the weekly drama.
BALANCED partner PFPI shared a list of questions and provided inputs to FON on their Rapid Rural Appraisal RRA exercise questionnaire. The RRA was designed to evaluate
their Hen Mpoano NGO partners who are implementing PHE in the Shama District.
Results from Activity 1.4 •
Six post-training assistance interventions to six NGOsinstitutions TCMP, FHI, GBM, FON, ECHNTS, CEWEFIA in three BALANCED focus countries 1.4a
- Hands on TA to TCMP on workplan, communications plan, PHE activities, mobile
clinics -
Virtual TA to TCMP PHE Coordinator on NFPWG, mobile clinics, communications plan
- Virtual TA to FHI and GBM on PHE training curriculum
- Virtual TA to FON on PHE activities
- Virtual TA to Leslie Lucas on ECHNTS YPE training
- Hands-on TA to FON, CEWEFIA on PHE activities
1.5 Provide technical support to ICMPHE Project
As part of our support to the Integrated Community Managed PHE ICMPHE Project, BALANCED is working with ExpandNet, an NGO specializing in designing for scale-up, to
help ICMPHE design their project with scale-up in mind. In Year 4, ExpandNet will be providing technical support to the ICMPHE Project to help ensure the PHE interventions chosen
for implementation are appropriate to the settings, are implemented in sustainable ways, and are designed from the start to accommodate future scaling-up to surrounding areas and more
generally in the participating countries. During this reporting period, the following was achieved:
• ExpandNet staff members Peter Fajans and Laura Ghiron traveled to Dakar, Senegal
from November 27 – December 7, 2011 to participate in the first two official meetings of the ICMPHE project, which during this period was renamed as the Health of People and
Environment in the Lake Victoria Basin HOPE-LVB Project. These meetings coincided with the International Conference on Family Planning held in Dakar, Senegal from
November 29 to December 2, 2011. The first meeting was the December 1st project launch—an FP Conference auxiliary evening event, attended by over 70 people. The
second meeting was the Meeting of the Minds—the first official working meeting of the HOPE-LVB Project. The Meeting of the Minds, which took place on December 3rd,
provided the project implementing partners, donors and those providing technical support with a briefing on recent fieldwork, the current status of project planning, presentations
15 highlighting partner skill sets and other relevant work to date, as well as laying out donor
hopes and expectations for the project. •
Fajans and Ghiron also helped facilitate the four-day PHE Program Design Workshop organized by BALANCED in Dakar see activity 1.2. During the workshop, Fajans and
Ghiron gave a session called “Applying the ExpandNetWHO scaling-up framework, tools and approaches.” They also assisted the HOPE - LVB-participants to: 1 develop a
conceptual framework for the project; 2 review, discuss and refine the project goal, objectives and activities; and 3 establish results chains for the desired outcomes.
• The ExpandNet team began arranging the first technical assistance visit to the HOPE-
LVB sites. This trip, which will include fieldwork and project planning in Kenya and Uganda, is scheduled for January 17-February 7, 2012. A team of four ExpandNet
members, including Fajans, Ghiron, Alexis Ntabona and Ruth Simmons will participate in the JanuaryFebruary technical assistance visit.
• BALANCED supported the participation of seven HOPE-LVB participants from
Pathfinder International, Conservation Through Public Health CTPH, the Ecological Christian Organization ECO and OSIENALA Friends of Lake Victoria – a local NGO
at the Senegal PHE Program Design workshop see Activity 1.2
In addition to the technical input provided by the ExpandNet team, BALANCED staff will also provide technical support to the HOPE-LVB Project upon request. No requests have been made
to date, as the HOPE-LVB Project is only now beginning to organize itself. Results from Activity 1.5
• ExpandNet Dakar trip report
1.6 Support PHE Champions to attend CRC-CI’s “Building Coastal Community Resilience:
