SAfAIDS Transforming Lives SAfAIDS Transforming Lives SAFAIDS har ansökt om 75 miljoner kronor för att genomföra sin regionala strategi “Transforming the Policy Environment for Accelerating Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) by adolescents and young people, within an SDGs framework, in southern Africa 2018 – 2020.” 

Det övergripande målet med insatsen är att bidra till en mer gynnsam politisk miljö som möjliggör positiva SRHR-resultat bland ungdomar och unga kvinnor i södra Afrika senast 2020. Det föreslagna programmet har fyra strategiska mål.

- Policyutveckling: Stödja utvecklingen av SADC-riktlinjer gällande ungdomar och sexuellt och könsbaserat våld senast 2020,

- Policypåverkan: Påverka SADCs medlemsstater att öka insatserna mot oavsiktliga graviditeter och osäkra aborter bland sexuellt aktiva ungdomar senast 2020,

- Övervakning av socialt ansvar: Stärka kapaciteten hos regionala ungdomsorganisationer och nätverk för ansvarsutkrävande vad gäller tillhandahållandet av SRHR Information och tjänster riktade till ungdomar i södra Afrika senast 2020,

- Evidens och kunskapsutbyte: Förbättra utbytet av modeller, innovationer och strategier för sexuellt och/eller könsbaserad våld (SGBV), oavsiktlig graviditet och osäker abort bland ungdomar senast 2020.

SAfAIDS har varit partner till det regionala SRHR-teamet sedan 2004. SAfAIDs tar emot finansiering från en diversifierad pool av finansiärer som inkluderar Sveriges regionala SRHR-team, HIVOS, Irland, EU, UNAIDS Regional support team och Stop AIDS Now. Den föreslagna insatsen kommer att finansieras fullt ut av Sida. SAfAIDS has applied for 75 million SEK to implement their regional strategy programme, Transforming the Policy Environment for Accelerating Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) by adolescents and young people, within an SDGs framework, in southern Africa 2018 – 2020.The overall goal of the intervention is to contribute towards a more conducive policy environment that enables positive SRHR outcomes among adolescents and young women, in Southern Africa, by 2020.  The proposed programme will realise 4 strategic objectives;- Policy Development: Support the development of Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Sexual Gender-based Violence (SGBV) Response Guidelines for Adolescents by Member States, by 2020,- Policy Advocacy: Advocate to SADC Member States to scale up prevention of unintended pregnancies and unsafe abortions among sexually active adolescents by 2020,- Social Accountability Monitoring: Strengthen the capacity of regional youth organisations and networks in social accountability monitoring of the delivery of youth-friendly SRH Information and services in Southern Africa, by 2020,- Evidence and Knowledge Sharing: Enhance knowledge sharing of models, innovations and strategies on Sexual Gender Based Violence (SGBV), unintended pregnancies and unsafe abortions among adolescents and social accountability monitoring  within the region and across the broader sector by 2020. In regards to the budget, it is assessed that the proposed total budget of 75,000,000 SEK for this invention is sufficient, and reasonable to meet the planned outcomes.  The allocated budget for the SAfAIDS six months inception phase is USD1,958,836 (SEK16,249,131). Six per cent  (6%) of the inception budget relates to activities for a technical expert report, internal regional 2 day inception meeting, regional partner visit and regional and  national sensitization meetings with key stakeholders. 28% of the program activities also relate to costs for arranging a regional rapid assessment on the adolescent Sexual Gender Based Violence (SGBV) related policy environment, organizing a meeting to develop an Assessment Methodology Protocol (AMP), conducting an induction meeting for assessment team, conducting a national meeting to validate the rapid assessment findings, regional meeting to validate the rapid assessment findings, developing a mobile social accountability monitoring application (including tech tools and systems)  for SRHR in partnership with Rhodes University, develop a toolkit on social accountability monitoring for youth SRH Services and Technical Consultancy. Two per cent (2%) of the budget has been allocated to monitoring & evaluation and finance compliance and monitoring visits, while six per cent (6%) of the budget has been allocated to capital expenditure. Ten per cent (10%) of the budget relates to administration costs whilst 48% of the planned budget relates to staff costs. The reason for the high staff costs is a result of SAfAIDS not complying with MCP/PLGHA, which has resulted in SAfAIDS losing USAID funding that was contributing to SAfAIDS staff and administration costs of up to 16%.  SAfAIDS receives funding from a diversified pool of funders that include Sweden, Hivos, Irish Aid, European Union, UNAIDS Regional, Stop AIDS Now, and USAID. The largest funders are Sweden and USAID who together contributed more than 60% of resources to SAfAIDS. Transforming Lives is a 4.5 year regional policy and advocacy programme (2018-2023), which seeks to contribute towards a more conducive policy environment that enables positive SRHR outcomes among adolescents and young people in Southern Africa. The programme seeks to work at the regional level to influence policy in three thematic SRHR spheres of sexual gender-based violence, adolescent pregnancy and unsafe abortion with links to maternal mortality and access to youth friendly SRHR information and services. The programme will contribute directly to SDG 3 on Good Health and Well-being and SDG 5 on Gender Equality, and make linkages to targets under SDGs 10 and 16. 

The programme goal is to contribute towards a more conducive policy environment that enables positive SRHR outcomes among adolescents and young women in Southern Africa. The Programmes Strategic Objectives (SOs) are:

Strategic Objective 1 (SO1): Support the development of SADC Sexual Gender-based Violence Response Guidelines for Adolescents and Young People by Member States, by 2023.

Strategic Objective 2 (SO2): Advocate to SADC Member States to scale up Prevention of Early and Unintended Pregnancies and Unsafe Abortions among Sexually Active Adolescents, by 2023.

Strategic Objective 3 (SO3): Strengthen the Capacity of Regional Youth Organisations and Networks in Social Accountability Monitoring of the delivery of Youth-friendly SRH Information and Services in southern Africa, by 2023.

Strategic Objective 4 (SO4): Enhance knowledge sharing of models, innovations and strategies on SGBV, Early and Unintended Pregnancies (EUP) and Unsafe Abortions among Adolescents and Young People and SAM for SRHR within the region and across the broader sector, by 2023.