African Youth Alliance
From 2000-2005, Pathfinder partnered with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and PATH to implement the African Youth Alliance Project in Uganda, Ghana, Botswana, and Tanzania. The project aimed to improve, scale up, and institutionalize HIV and AIDS prevention and adolescent reproductive health programs in these four countries.
Pathfinder was responsible for the Youth-Friendly Services and Institutional Capacity Building components of the program. In Tanzania, Pathfinder collaborated with 14 local institutions in 10 districts to reach young people through static clinics, peer education programs, and the private and commercial sectors.
In addition to building local NGO capacity, Pathfinder instituted an array of youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health services, including:
- Information and counseling on sexuality, safe sex, and reproductive health;
- Contraceptive method provision (with an emphasis on dual protection);
- STI diagnosis and management;
- HIV counseling (and referral for testing and care);
- Pregnancy testing and antenatal and postnatal care;
- Counseling on sexual violence and abuse (and referral for needed services); and
- Postabortion care counseling and contraception (with referral for treatment of complications when necessary).
Related Publications
AYA Final institutional-capacity-building Reports
Under AYA, the ICB component recognized that governments in the four intervention countries are increasingly turning to Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) and civil society as partners in meeting their countries development needs.
AYA - Final institutional-capacity-building Reports - The Ghana Report
Final Report for Ghana
AYA - Final institutional-capacity-building Reports - The Tanzania Report
Final Report for Tanzania
AYA - Final institutional-capacity-building Reports - The Botswana Report
Final Report for Botswana
Related Projects
Accountability in the Reproductive Health Sector
PAST PROJECT: Using Community Scorecards, this project empowered citizens in Tanzania to improve the quality of their own reproductive health services.
Community Scorecards in Tanzania
PAST PROJECT: Pathfinder was awarded a second grant from the Results for Development Institute to implement activities that are complementary to those of the Citizen Report Cards.
Community-Based Family Planning Program in Papua New Guinea, Tanzania, and Uganda
PAST PROJECT: This project provided technical assistance and support to local organizations in Papua New Guinea, Tanzania, and Uganda, with the goal of improving each grantees organizational capacity to affect health and community systems strengthening.
RELATED NEWS
International conference stresses youth's reproductive health rights
Youths are deprived of information and services related to sexual or reproductive health. These issues are considered taboo due to social, cultural or religious norms in the developing and middle-income countries, speakers discussed on the third day of the International Conference on Family Planning, held at the Bali Nusa Dua Convention Centre in Indonesia.
Male Involvement in Family Planning Vital for Demographic Dividend
Addressing the gathering, Mr Josea Otege of Pathfinder International said that Demographic Dividend is achieved due to policy changes in education, health, family planning, economic reforms and government accountability, which in turn help to promote demographic transition.