HEADA UGANDA BOARD MEETING

Dr. Mutabazi Sharif. Executive Director HEADA Uganda 24th Feb 2013

Presentation Outline

ABOUT HEADA UGANDA

PAST PERFORMANCE OVERVIEW

SYNOPSIS OF FIVE YEAR STRATEGIC PLAN ACKNOWLEDMENTS

ABOUT HEADA UGANDA

Not for profit NGO. Vision: To be a regionally recognized leader in promoting health and Development. Mission: To play a leading role in improving the health of Ugandans as well as alleviate poverty through control and prevention of diseases, clinical research and establishing sustainable community empowerment projects.

KEY THEMATIC AREAS

These have been defined in the HEADA Uganda Strategic Plan 2013-2017 under the theme Transforming Communities Key Thematic Area I:INNOVATIVE HIV/AIDS PREVENTION APPROACHES AND ACCESS TO ADOLESCENT REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH. Key Thematic Area II:QUALITY RESEARCH FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE PREVENTION , OVC PROGRAMMING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Key Thematic Area III: HEADA UGANDA TECHNICAL AND MANAGEMENT CAPACITY BUILDING Key Thematic Area IV: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE
Board Board chairperson, Vice chairperson, Secretary,& Board members Executive Committee/Secretariat ED, Deputy ED, Programs Manager/Director, Human Resource Manager, Financial Controller e.t.c Staff, currently volunteering

Human Resource

Performance Appraisal Process defined Employee Performance Appraisal Plan template developed and EPAP monitoring tool developed Performance Appraisal form for HEADA Uganda developed Human Resource Policy as a guide to HR functions in place. 20 Volunteers in total

FINANCE& COMPLIANCE

Organisational Account at Housing Finance Bank Two signatories(ED and Financial Controller) Financial Policy Manual in place and accounting procedures defined. Requisition forms, vouchers e.t.c in place Attempts to contract an audit firm underway but hampered by lack of funds

PAST PERFORMANCE

Impact Through Peers Project One year project. Funded by Rose Charities through Hillman Medical Education Fund. Secondary schools in Mbarara municipality Target population 3000 students. Innovative evidence-based community based approaches.

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The Situation in Mbarara

Health Seeking Behaviour among Students in Secondary schools in the municipality. Uganda media and youth survey (Denis et-al 2000) carried out in 5 secondary schools found; 1 in 5 adolescents(81%) turned to parents and teachers for health information. 56% from books

Health Seeking Behaviour

38% use internet. Older adolescents turned to siblings. While younger ones turned to parents. The study also compared different modes of delivery of health messages to adolescents in the Municipality and found that;

Community educators played a vital role but tended to avoid rich families.

Health Seeking Behaviour continued.

8 1n 10 had watched videos giving health messages but the messages remembered were not those intended. Plays and Leaflets were also found to play some role. Apparently non of the four methods were able to reach high saturation and long-term retention levels of the intervention messages.

STIs Among adolescents Mbarara

A study done in 2006/7 by Venture Strategies for Health and MUST, found; Lifetime awareness for ; Syphilis 99% Gonorrhea 85% HIV 98.8% Ever tested for syphilis; 26.8%

STIs in Mbarara Municipality

Adolescents identified sources of information for STIs as; Radio dominant medium ,60% Friends and peers, 10% Govt officials,5% STI and Risky Behaviors among young people 15-24 years of age. Male; 73% had sex in last six months preceding the study

STIs among Mbararan Adolescents

Of the above, 38% had 2+ partners 16% gave gifts for sex. 10.6% received gifts for sex Females, 84% had sex in last 6 month preceding the survey 10.4% had 2+ partners 1.9% gave gifts for sex 10.7% received gifts for sex.

Condom use Mbararan Adolescents

Males; 37.6% had unprotected sex in last six months(with a regular partner). 37.7 % had unprotected sex with an irregular partner. Females; 14% had un protected sex with aregular partner and 10.3% with an irregular partner.

AAP/I-CATCH grant

Tackling Malnutrition Through Peer Education in Schools Supported by American Academy of Pediatrics under International Community Access to Child Health Program(I-CATCH). University of Minnesota to provide technical assistance through Dr.Cindy Howard, Director Global Health Program. Dr. Kemigisha Elizabeth is the Principal Investigator Target area: Mwizi Sub-county Mbarara District Dr.Kate Wotton, the Co-Investigator will tell us more about this project.

Achievements of ITP

School Peer Group Clubs established Trained Peer Educators in Life skills, STIs, Stigma, Gender& Sexuality, Adolescence and body changes, Career Guidance, Environmental Protection, Cross generational Sex& its implications-Something for something Love ,Early pregnancy avoidance. Students have composed well crafted plays, poems, songs and other forms of drama. One of the plays will be presented at Rose Charities International Conference in Kampala on 9th March 2013.

Achievements

Improved despline among students-anedoctal reports from Head teachers. 2-students linked to Canadian donors for school fees support. 1 in S.4 Nyamitanga S.S and the other in S.5 at Valley College. These are orphans and were very active members of the Peer Group Club Interschool club competitions held , Nyamitanga won-received a trophy and Mbarara SS was first runner-up Nationally approved criteria used to select winning clubs.

Future Plans

HEADA Uganda currently exploring possibilities of using ICT to deliver ASRH Use of web-based peer-peer interaction under the guidance of HEADA Uganda Peer Trainers Use of SMS/Innovative cell phone technologies to deliver health information messages to adolescents Serial radio drama Inter-school web-discussions through Skype under the guidance of trained peer counselors. School gardens Targeting Children with special needs with Adolescent health related information. Tukore School of Invalids has been visited& welcomes the idea. We are planning to look for support

Future plans

Peer Club Newsletter Radio programs[Serial radio drama, community radio& radio talkshows] conducted by peers themselves

HIV-TESTING

HIVPOST TEST COUNSELING

FAMILY PLANNING

HEADA TEAM DURING COMMUNITY CAMPING

FIVE YEAR STRATEGIC PLAN

2013-2017 Theme: Transforming Communities Key Thematic Areas already alluded to Development Process: Phase 1: SPDSC chaired by ED. Situational, stakeholder, PEST trends analysis, benchmarking, SWOT done. Phase 2: SP designing workshops Phase 3: SP Validation,in final stages

HEADA UGANDA PARTNERS

We acknowledge our partners for support Rose Charities Canada

Hillman Medical Education Fund

American Academy of Pediatrics We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. Maria Teresa