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Improving MCH in Malawi 2010-13 Maternal and child mortality rates in Malawi are amongst the highest in the world. Their vulnerability to preventable illnesses are due to a variety of reasons. They include the inaccessibility and quality of health care services, limited knowledge on good healthcare practices, and poor nutrition. This project will work with thousands of mothers and young women to define how both they, and the health service, could contribute to reducing unnecessary deaths.  They will work with health workers, village chiefs and other volunteers to better monitor the health of pregnant women, mothers and young children. Efforts will be made to make health facilities more accessible, and improving quality of ante natal and maternal services. The project will also support women’s groups through promoting vegetable farming and other activities, which will improve women and children’s nutritional status as well as providing them with an income. For these women, the project will make giving birth safer and improve the chances of their children surviving. It will help them influence and improve the government health service and will promote the extension of this approach to other areas of Malawi.
Promoting equal access to education in Malawi This project seeks to promote the inclusion of hearing impaired and disabled children in schools in Kasungu and Nkhotakota districts of Central Malawi. It will do this by offering training to the community, learners, parents and teachers promoting the concept of inclusion and in doing so seeks to create an enabling environment in which many more disabled children will go to school and achieve a quality education. It will also work with teachers and duty-bearers to advocate for available resources to be allocated for inclusion in the schools.
Making Pregnncy Safer MPS in Amhara ll Women in Ethiopia often risk their lives when giving birth. Though half of maternal deaths could be prevented if women delivered their babies with a skilled birth attendant, only 10% of women get help from a trained health worker, against a national target of 62%. Access to health services is poor and the standards of health care are low. The distance and the cost to reach health facilities prevent women from getting skilled care. Family planning is the most cost-effective way of reducing maternal deaths but many women in Ethiopia do not use modern family planning methods. This project will increase the number of women that deliver in health centres and use family planning services. It will increase the demand for these services using educational films and other health promotion activities. The project will help communities set up savings groups to pay for transport for medical emergencies. It will train health workers and provide medical equipment to improve the quality of health care. As a result, the project will reduce the number of women and newborns that die.
Towards long-term Sustainable Change for Street Children (Kenya) Nyanza province in Kenya has a HIV prevalence rate (15.3%) that is double the national figure. The impact of HIV and AIDS and the 2008 post-election violence have resulted in a high number of children from Nyanza and neighbouring provinces moving to the streets for their survival. Once on the street the children lack food, basic health care, education and safe place to sleep at night; often they are forced to take up dangerous work and are frequently abused, raped and harassed by community members, police and older children; significant number of girls' experience of sexual abuse as domestic maids pushed them on the street. This project will reach out to children on the street; run a drop in centre meeting their immediate needs and priorities such as washing, basic health care, counselling and non-formal education with separate facilities for boys and girls; provide short term accommodation pending reintegration with their families or guardians; strengthen Consortium of Street Children as a platform for doing advocacy work influencing policies. This project has a strong focus on building HOVIC's capacity including governance and decision making to deliver effective but complex projects supporting vulnerable boys and girls to achieve long term lasting change in their lives towards independent adulthood.
Monitoring the impact of HIV education through football coaching National HIV rates in Kenya are estimated to be around 6%, but young women in Nairobi’s slums are thought to be up to four times as vulnerable as young men, not least because 24% report their first sexual encounter was forced. Tackle Africa is already supporting local organisation, Bravilian Queens Association, to deliver HIV education for girls through football, but they are finding it challenging to monitor and evaluate the impact of their activities effectively, particularly the contribution they are making to significant positive behaviour change amongst girls and young people. This Tactical Planning grant will enable the applicant to develop, implement and test a number of simple, qualitative monitoring and evaluation tools to assess the needs of vulnerable young girls in Nairobi’s slums; monitor changes in their attitudes and behaviour; adapt and strengthen the organisation’s HIV education football coaching drills according to their needs; and build the capacity of both the local partner and UK organisation in monitoring and evaluation.
Maternal and Neonatal Implementation for Equitable Systems  (MANIFEST) Each year in Uganda, nearly 46,000 newborns and 6,000 women die from problems during pregnancy and childbirth. Many of these deaths could be prevented if women and newborns received all the health services they needed, and parents practiced good newborn care. |This project seeks to combine, and scale up approaches tested during two pilot projects that led to an increased demand for maternal health services and improved newborn care practices. The pilot projects included home visits to pregnant women and newborn babies by volunteer community health workers, vouchers for transport and services, and work to improve care in health facilities. The projects showed good results, but did not show how the work could continue beyond the project period or how it could be expanded beyond the pilot areas. This project will combine the approaches from the pilot projects. Families, communities and district health management teams will be more closely involved, and will explore ways to plan and pay for the work, so it can continue without outside support. Combinations of the strategies will be tested in five districts in Eastern Uganda. The project will help show how each strategy can improve health service use and promote simple practices to keep newborns healthy. |As a result of this work, there will be a measurable improvement in the health of mothers and newborns in project areas. Results will be shared to promote wider use of the approaches.|Recommendation Summary: A grant of £228,001 for a nine-month design phase is recommended. This is an exciting project that showed strong improvements in indicators associated with improved maternal and newborn health during a pilot phase. It will support a well-respected Ugandan organisation, Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH) to take these findings to the next level: refining the work to make it replicable and part of local health systems, introducing the project in new districts, and using the findings to promote expansion. However, the proposal is not sufficiently developed yet to merit a recommendation to fund the full amount requested. The recommendation is to support a 9-month design phase that allows for further consultation with government and other stakeholders. This will result in a more clearly thought out and well-budgeted plan for the implementation and dissemination stages, for Comic Relief to consider in 2012.
Combating Sexual and Gender-Based Violence to retain girls and boys in Malawian This project aims to tackle the prevalence of School Based Sexual Violence in schools. It will work with pupils, schools staff and communities to raise awareness and build effective and functional mechanisms to report and deal with any. There will be a primary focus on girls but boys are clearly integral to this work through their involvement and the ability and relevance of the mechanisms to support any incidences of sexual abuse against boys and young men. The mechanisms created will ensure that both communities and schools remain safe places for young people to grow up and develop in. Working with two experienced local organisations, Oxfam Malawi will be part of an effective partnership.
Promoting Enterprise and Employment for Women Ex-Offenders In Kenya, women offenders are enormously stigmatised and often discriminated against and rejected by family, friends and employers. A majority of these women spend months and even years awaiting trial and sentencing for petty charges. Poverty appears to be the main cause for engaging in criminality such as selling illicit brew, drug smuggling, hawking without licences and loitering with intent to engage in prostitution. There are existing opportunities within Langata Women's Maximum Prison for women to gain technical skills e.g. horticulture or furniture making, that could lead to self-employment on completion of their sentences. However, upon release women generally leave prison with no money and they lack access to the credit, business management skills and market linkages they need to turn their technical skills into a sustainable business. As there is no further support package after their release most of the women end up either engaging in informal hawking or re-offending.     Using peer-led participatory approaches this research project will investigate the barriers faced by women ex-offenders in Nairobi, Kenya when accessing enterprise and employment opportunities and explore potential approaches to addressing these.      As a result of this research relevant stakeholders will have the necessary information to inform the provision of programmes and services which support and enable ex-offenders to access secure livelihoods through employment or self employment and consequently reduce re-offending rates.
Capacity Building in Zimbabwe with ZNLB This grant will enable two Powerful Information staff to travel to Zimbabwe from the UK. They will meet with staff and members from the Zimbabwe National League for the Blind in order to better understand how they can work together. The visit will include focus group meetings with some of the 9000 visually impaired members, Zimbabwean government staff and other NGOs in the country. They will work together to understand what the main needs of the visually impaired members are; how they can combine the two organisations' skills to address these needs; how a successful, meaningful partnership can be developed and how each NGO can be supported in its own development.
Stepping Stones with Children aged 5-14 years This project will develop, test for the first time, produce, and introduce a training package, ‘Stepping Stones with Children'. Parents and carers find it hard to discuss HIV with young children. ‘Stepping Stones' is a proven popular training package used in over 100 countries and available in 25 languages.  It helps adults and young people explore how relations between men and women, age and other issues influence the way people behave, and how behaviour can be improved. Currently, Stepping Stones does not include skills to help people relate to younger children aged 5-14 on issues like death, disclosure of HIV status, stigma and age-appropriate information on HIV and sex. The Stepping Stones approach uses peer groups working alone at first, then coming together in a larger mixed group, to share their ideas about particular problems, their causes, and how people can work together to address the problems. The training takes place over a three to four-month period. This application is recommended for funding. The project will create a training package to work with young children (aged 5-14) who are living with and affected by HIV. ‘Stepping Stones with Children' will give children, their families and those caring for them the materials and skills to better relate to each other on sensitive and difficult issues like disclosure, death, stigma, and HIV.
Medical Assistance Sierra Leone - Organisational Development Grant MASL supports access to health care and urgent medical treatment for communities and individuals in Sierra Leone. They worked with Basindon hospital to establish the first epilepsy service in Sierra Leone, supporting urgent spinal surgery for children with TB of the spine. To date they have relied heavily on the voluntary help and commitment of colleagues, including input from a Consultant Neurologist, which is unsustainable. They would now like to develop a strategic organisational vision that builds on their achievements and generates the resources to implement long-term sustainable partnerships, based on best practice. The scale of the need in Sierra Leone requires a coherent and strong strategy to maximise resources and impact. Access to the highest attainable level of healthcare will form the foundation of this strategy, with MASL offering support through information and partnerships, with an emphasis on working efficiently towards long term capacity-building and the establishment of sustainable in-country services.  MASL would like to use this grant to bring trustees together for two days, along with one person from the Epilepsy Association to undertake a SWOT analysis of MASL. This will then be used to develop their programmes and organisational strategies. Based on the priorities defined in the programmes strategy they intend to develop a five-year strategic plan to enable them to operationalise their vision. MASL would like to look beyond their current funding streams with a view to sustaining their current programmes. Once they have developed their strategic plan, they will use the remaining funds to contract support from an experienced organisational development mentor who will assist them to operationalise the strategic plan over a period of approximately nine months.
Mifumi Model on Violence and Abuse - Bridging Fund In Uganda, the rate of violence and abuse against women at 68% is extremely high. Despite this, conviction rates for the crime remain appallingly low at less than 6%. Due to poor support services and weak community sanctions against abuse, women who experience domestic violence (DV) across Tororo district, and their children, remain vulnerable and underserved. Through this project, they will be helped to recover physically, mentally, and economically from the violence, and supported to have safer lives with prospects of better livelihoods. The project will provide a range of services for affected women and their families, which will lead to a reduction in the impact and number of incidences of domestic violence across the district and more widely in Uganda. As a result of the project, women directly affected, and their children will have better lives, and Mifumi will have strengthened its systems and improved its learning about how to replicate its model of working.
Education and Protection of children and young people (EPCYP) (Uganda) Northern Uganda is recovering from two decades of severe conflict which ended after a ceasefire agreement in 2006. The region still faces a number of challenges. The government is working to restore the region's infrastructure and facilities to an adequate level but in the meantime vulnerable children and young people continue to miss out on basic needs and rights such as going to school. Teenage mothers, orphans, children from single parent families, children who were made to fight in the war, and children with disabilities are not getting the help they need. This project will ensure that children and young people, especially girls, are able to receive education or skills training. It will help communities, families and local authorities to better protect and look out for these children themselves in the future. As a result of the project, children will be better educated; young people will have better employment prospects; they will have a greater voice in their communities and be better protected from exploitation and abuse.
Developing educators, improving early learning in rural Tanzania Working with the Tanzania Teachers Union, EI will develop a Competency Profile (CP) to be used in the selection and training of all pre primary teachers. A consensus based approach will ensure participation from teacher training colleges, union members, heads and ministerial staff. The competency profile will be adopted by the Ministry of Education alongside the new ECE curriculum and syllabus, finalised in April 2016. 500 teachers will be trained alongside parents, headteachers, ministry staff and union members in more child centred methodologies and ways to support the establishment of pre-primary classes in schools - now required by law but without adequately trained teachers.
Empowerment, Equality and Education in Rwanda The post-genocide environment in Rwanda has increased the incidence of disabilities related to post-traumatic stress. There are also increased incidents of loss of speech and trauma related mental illness in children who have been born since. Despite this, there is little provision for disabled children within the education system in Rwanda. This project will work with a local community based organisation to ensure that disabled children are able to go to school. Children with disabilities and special learning needs in the Northern districts of Musanze, Gakenke and Nayabihu are missing out on access to education as a result of social stigma associated with disability, lack of resources and capacity by the local district government and a lack of awareness around the rights and capabilities of young people with disabilities. This intervention will result in 290 children with hearing impairment and communications disorders and special learning needs being integrated into mainstream schools; 253 school teachers trained in delivering inclusive education; 36 community volunteer learning support assistants, and thousands of children realising an enhanced quality of life through social acceptance and a prosperous transition into adulthood. By the end of the project, it will have developed an example for Rwanda that will be promoted to the government and to other development organisations of how disabled children can be included in education and community life despite the many challenges and lack of funding. Examples of best practice, advice and training will support the broader adoption of this approach, and advocacy, outreach and community events will help to create an environment in which young people with disabilities can claim an equal place in society and build a positive future.
Towards long-term sustainable change for Street Children 2011 Nyanza province in Kenya has a HIV prevalence rate that is double the national figure. It also has more than half a million orphans. Poverty, the impact of HIV and AIDS, harmful traditional practices and the 2008 post-election violence have resulted in a high number of children from Nyanza and neighbouring provinces moving to the streets for survival. Many of the children eke out a living working in the shadow economy in deplorable conditions. They lack food, health care, education and shelter and are frequently abused, raped and harassed by community members, police and older children. This project will provide children with access to short-term facilities such as health care, counselling and non-formal education, pending reintegration with their families. The project will also work with government and communities to improve support to street children and stem the flow of children to the streets.
Research and Needs-assessment in Obalanga and Kapelebyong sub-counties The research project will provide detailed research and needs-assessment to establish possible project areas to help the vulnerable conflict-affected people of this region. A likely focus is for sustainable solutions, particularly focusing on education, food security, and livelihoods for the communities returning from displacement camps. This region is currently suffering from the funding gap between aid and development that is typical of conflict-affected areas, and this research would strive to find methods of overcoming this and bridging this gap. Having been interrupted and displaced by armed conflicts and still experiencing Karimajong warrior invasions, many people are unable to maintain livelihoods; children suffer interrupted education; the rate of child headed families is high; and the rate of HIV-Aids spread is increasing. This research would provide a piece of learning that can be used to overcome these challenges. The learning would filter into projects to be run by the SI-VAD partnership as well as being disseminated amongst other Ugandan practitioners in the area. The research would further feed into Comic Relief's research topic of 'What are the key elements needed to ensure that conflict affected families and young people have sustainable and secure livelihoods?' thereby also contributing to international learning and debate.
Strengthening Access, Resources and Transition (StART) using Peer-assisted Suppo Most children in conflict-affected communities in northern Uganda don't have access to formal pre-school education, despite a national policy being in place.  For the last 10 years LABE has been modelling non-formal early childhood development provision using home learning centres.  This project aims to strengthen the model, and help school readiness, by using a Child to Child approach where older primary school children and their teachers will support younger children in the transition year at the centres and during the first years of school.  As a result, disabled and other vulnerable children are more likely to enrol in school,  stay in school, and do well supported by their older peers.
Teenz Alliance in Ending Sexual Violence in Schools People Opposing Women Abuse (POWA) and ADAPT will work in 12 schools in two districts in Gauteng Province, Tembisa and Evaton. They will develop schools based activities including girls Teenz leadership clubs, activities to promote safety across the school led by learners, campaigns on specific issues, and regular community dialogues. They will also work to address male attitudes to girls and towards sexual violence.
Support access to inclusive pre-school  education by children with disabilities This project will work in Amolatar District to improve access to inclusive pre-school education for disabled children. It will also work to ensure retention, learning and transition by these children into primary education supporting their future education prospects. The project will include holistic support including rehabilitation, assistive devices and nutrition to support children to thrive in the pre-school environment and work alongside the district authorities to promote the impact of this being sustained and expanded in future.