Other countries

To avoid fragmentation we decided, to limit and to invest more of Youth Incentives into the Trust Fund partners. Also, some additional funds have been raised to carry out longer term projects in China and Russia. With OxfamNovib two-yearly programmes, one in Somaliland and one in Western Africa, were developed to mainstream expertise on sexuality and HIV/Aids into Oxfams partners programmes.

China: Sexuality Education Intervention for Young People
This project is a partnership between the China Family Planning Association (CFPA), the Jiangsu Research Institute for Family Planning Issues, World Population Foundation and Rutgers Nisso Groep/Youth Incentives and is supported by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs. The main objective is to improve the national level response to young people’s sexual and reproductive health issues by building the capacity of the CFPA and other agencies to advocate for, develop, implement and evaluate innovative behaviour change communication interventions.

Russia: Stop HIV and Aids and Talk about Sexual Health
This 3 year project in St Petersburg, Russia, financed by MATRA (Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs), is carried out by Women’s Health in Saint Petersburg, a local NGO aiming to improve reproductive health of women and young people. This NGO works together with local stakeholders and young people to increase the capacity of adults and youth to produce and disseminate youth materials such as brochures and the magazine AIDS SEX HEALTH at events in health and educational settings or through outreach work.

Somaliland: Train the Trainers of Peer Educators HIV/AIDS prevention
The Doses of Hope Foundation (DOH) is a non-governmental organisation based in the Netherlands and Somaliland. DOH Somaliland initiates activities for groups of low income, high risk young women and men, particularly in its capital Hargeisa. Funded by Oxfam Novib, DOH has set up Train the Trainers Programmes for peer educators in two small pilot projects on HIV/AIDS prevention youth clubs. This Train the Trainers Programme has been developed and facilitated by Youth Incentives.

West-Africa: Mainstreaming HIV/Aids with special emphasis on SRHR and gender
This project by Oxfam Novib and five of its partners in West Africa (ACAPES, AJE, ENDA GRAF SAHEL in Senegal, CCEB in Burkina Faso and Niger Amitié in Niger) is a pilot on how to mainstream HIV/AIDS with special emphasis on sexual and reproductive rights and gender. The five partner organizations together will include sexuality education in their programmes and will support 22.000 young people in Burkina Faso, Senegal and Niger to help them to prevent HIV/AIDS (through responsible sexual behaviour).