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The article outlines the main features of collaborative planning with NGOs to improve women's health in Egypt by taking readers through the Beni Suef initiative. Details of the workshop for NGO training, a discussion of emergent issues and an assessment of NGO receptiveness are offered.
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This article discusses CARE's experiences with involving youth through participatory research on sexual and reproductive health in Zambia. The research findings indicate that adolescents have incomplete, inaccurate and distorted information on sex and reproduction. CARE acted on the findings and implements adolescent and sexual health programmes in shanty towns. The authors opine that adolescent sexual behaviour has serious implications and there is a need for extensive interventions.
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An assessment of the reproductive health education pack called 'Auntie Stella' used in Zimbabwe's secondary schools. The authors measure the impact of 'Auntie Stella' and draw on lessons learnt from its use and the use of PRA in reproductive health education.
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This article considers an innovative participatory approach with school children in Uganda to address issues about HIV/AIDS and sex education. A description of the approach is offered and a detailed description of the findings after being in operation for two years is also given. The article also includes feedback from participants.
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This article traces the experiences of CARE in using a participatory approach to assessing the sexual health needs of young men and women in Cambodia's garment factories. Detailed information is given on the initiative including the process of contacting and identifying research partners in garment factories and the methods used to get information on sexual health. The research findings are also discussed.
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A report of developing a sexual health training pack with low-literacy youth who are attached to religious groups. The authors question the use and efficacy of participatory methods to facilitate information collection and analysis for producing a manual by tracing their experiences which saw the youth group opting for the use of drama instead of PRA tools and setting the agenda for the development of the manual. The article ends with a series of questions for reflection about facilitation in the participatory process.
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An article describing a holistic sexual and reproductive health project in Zambia and focuses on participatory approaches used to address gender issues, male involvement, and the integration of sexual and reproductive health issues at community and clinic levels. The authors show how government programmes that use participatory approaches to achieve goals from the Cairo Population Conference face many opportunities and challenges in their work.
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In this report, the Gambian experience with the use of Stepping Stones in villages with groups or kafos is recorded. Details of how the pilot programme was implemented and how the Stepping Stones mother manual was adapted to suit local needs are provided. An assessment based on a KAP survey concludes the report.
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In this article, the authors recount the development of an innovative monitoring tool for use by sex workers in a peer education programme. A brief history of the project in Nepal is given and the use of the tool - the 'mala' is described with an accompanying note on its impact.
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This report brings details of two training sessions held in the US for health workers working on HIV prevention. In addition to providing information on the activities at the training sessions and the participatory methods used, the report also offers insights into process dynamics and lessons learnt. Particularly the use of body mapping to explore issues such as sensuality, desire and body image.
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This article describes the process of using body mapping to explore men's experiences of vasectomy in Nepal. It illustrates how participatory techniques can not only contribute to deepening understanding of the issues involved in the acceptance of contraception in villages in Nepal but also offer insights on perceptions of manhood, virility and sexuality in rural settings.
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The report sets down the participatory methods used to gain insights into what young people in the UK want from different kinds of sexual health services and how and when they would use these services. The authors conclude that the most important lesson they learnt about participatory tools was how flexible the tools were and how they could be used in ways that were not prescriptive and rigid.
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This is a review done for the Department for International Development (DFID), UK, by CAFOD and it partners in Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania and Zimbabwe to understand behavioural changes in the context of HIV and assess whether programme approaches had an impact on the behaviour related concerns of communities. The authors chart the process with its participatory evaluation approach and point out that the process has contributed significant tools such as the significant changes matrix which has the potential to build close relations between working partners and participants.
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This article recounts the experiences with the three year action-research pilot project called Living for Tomorrow which focuses on HIV prevention from a gender perspective. The Nordic Institute for Women's Studies and Gender Research (NIKK), coordinates the project aimed for people from countries belonging to the former Soviet Union. The author shows how the project works with young people in Estonia to address gender issues in a subtle way through the use of films, theatre, participatory drama and other mixed media.
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An account of the way a women's environmental network made use of participatory processes to make connections between the national and local levels in the UK on breast cancer. The article demonstrates how links can be built between advocacy and empowerment through a participatory process.