The planning and support tool provides an overview of characteristics of effective, rights based SRHR educuation/HIV prevention interventions for young people. Organisations can analyse their intervention or use the tool to plan new interventions.The tool has been developed by Rutgers WPF and Stop Aids Now.
Aim
Many organisations want to improve young people’s quality of life and health, and they want the programmes they implement to be of the same high quality. But developing effective programmes is not easy. Experience and evidence gained from work done all over the world shows what does contribute to quality and what does not. This tool provides the most important evidence, in a way that is useful for organisations that are working in the day-to-day practice of SRHR education for young people, but who have limited time and resources.
Content
The tool consists of a brief checklist with 28 characteristics, as well as elaborate background information for each characteristic. The characteristics are categorized in 6 elements of intervention planning:
- stakeholder involvement;
- needs assessment;
- objectives;
- intervention design;
- adoption and implementation;
- monitoring and evaluation.
The characteristics include for example ‘Does the intervention include interactive skills training?’, or ‘Has the intervention been tested?’.
Approaches
The tool is based on a rights based approach, supporting young people’s sexual and reproductive rights. Another key approach is the behaviour change approach, focusing on the factors that shape young people’s (sexual) behavior, including attitudes, skills and social influence.
Training of trainers
Stop AIDS Now! and Rutgers WPF will train and support organizations in Africa to become trainers of other organizations that will use the tool to analyze SRHR/HIV prevention programmes.
Development of the tool
The tool has been developed and tested by implementing organisations in South Africa and Pakistan and has been produced in 2009 by Stop AIDS Now! and Rutgers WPF in the Netherlands. The tool is available in English, French and Portuguese.
