Building Good Practices

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  Strengthening Capacity of NGOs for Scaling Up Integration of Family Planning into VCT and PMTCT Services in Uganda, Ethiopia and Zambia

  ICOMP implemented a project on Strengthening Capacity of NGOs for Scaling Up Integration of Family Planning into VCT and PMTCT Services in sub-Saharan Africa in collaboration with St Francis Health Care Services and Kyetume Community-based Health Care Programme (Uganda);  Propride and Eshet Children and Youth Development Organization (Ethiopia) and Independent Churches of Zambia in partnership with the Zambian Helpers Society (Zambia).

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  Developing and Up-scaling Community-based Initiatives to Institutionalise Reproductive Health Commodity Security in Batam, Indonesia

  This three year up-scaled project of Batam came to an end in November 2009.  To wrap up the project a Final Seminar on Sharing Lessons Learned and Evaluation Results was held on 25 November 2009 in Batam.  About 115 participants, including the Ford Foundation Representative of Indonesia, the Riau Island’s Deputy Governor, various officials from the local government departments, the village heads as well as the cadres,  attended the one-day seminar.

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• Assessing Capacity Enhancement Needs and Database of Possible Experts for 2010 Round of Population Censuses

  A significant number of countries in the Asia-Pacific Region are planning censuses for 2010-2011.  It is UNFPA’s intention that South-South cooperation on census be strengthened.  Beginning with the 2010 round of population censuses, the focus areas selected for enhancement are use of technology; gender statistics; and use of census variables as benchmarks for various MDG indicators.  This project aims to assess the capacity enhancement needs of countries and put together a pool of South-South experts who could provide technical assistance as well as take this forward in South-South modality.  Thus, it will set the stage for provision of technical assistance, training and study visits in the future.

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  A Documentation of Good Practices: Boy’s and Men’s Initiatives towards Gender Equity

  Need for and value of the project: The calls to engage boys and men in gender, sexuality and reproductive health from communities and institutions now reverberate. It is borne out from stories of women around the world. Across countries, cultures and faith, gender-based violence is prevalent. Patriarchy, which is at the core of this phenomenon, brings about gender inequality and inequity. The higher maternal and infant mortality rates, the prevalence of violence against women and children (VAWC) and the increasing number of women contracting STI/HIV/AIDS from their sexual partners are manifestations of gender inequity. The voices of women and those from the communities rationalize the compelling need to engage men to attain the goal of gender equality, reproductive rights and the empowerment of women and adolescent girls.

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  Strengthening Capacity of Youth Organizations for Gender-Integrated and Youth-Friendly Linked Response to Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

  ICOMP implemented a project on “Strengthening Capacity of Youth Organisation for Gender Integraed and Youth Friendly Linked Response to RH and HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia, Uganda and Zambia”.  The goal of the project is to promote gender-integrated and youth-friendly RH and HIV/AIDS care and services to improve RH conditions and mitigate new infections of STI and HIV among young people.  Specifically, the project will strengthen capacity of 20 youth serving organisations and 15 government/NGO referral service facilities utilized by them for implementing an integrated package of interventions for gender-integrated and youth-friendly linked response to RH and HIV/AIDS.

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