Board Presentation,Ed

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HEADA UGANDABOARD MEETINGDr. Mutabazi Sharif.

Executive Director HEADA Uganda24th Feb 2013


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Presentation Outline

ABOUT HEADA UGANDA

PAST PERFORMANCE OVERVIEW

SYNOPSIS OF FIVE YEAR STRATEGIC PLAN

ACKNOWLEDMENTS


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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 establishingsustainable community empowerment

projects.


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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 PREVENTIONAPPROACHES AND ACCESS TO ADOLESCENT REPRODUCTIVEHEALTH. Key Thematic Area II:QUALITY RESEARCH FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASEPREVENTION , OVC PROGRAMMING AND COMMUNITYDEVELOPMENT Key Thematic Area III: HEADA UGANDA TECHNICAL ANDMANAGEMENT CAPACITY BUILDING Key Thematic Area IV: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT


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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


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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 HRfunctions in place.

20 Volunteers in total


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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 underwaybut hampered by lack of funds


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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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PICTORIAL


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PICTORIAL


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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 schoolsfound;

1 in 5 adolescents(81%) turned to parents and

teachers for health information. 56% from books


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Health Seeking Behaviour

38% use internet.

Older adolescents turned to siblings.

While younger ones turned to parents.

The study also compared different modes ofdelivery of health messages to adolescents inthe Municipality and found that;

Community educators played a vital role buttended to avoid rich families.


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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 playsome role.

Apparently non of the four methods were able

to reach high saturation and long-termretention levels of the intervention messages.


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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%


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STIs in Mbarara

Municipality

Adolescents identified sources of informationfor STIs as;

Radio dominant medium ,60%

Friends and peers, 10% Govt officials,5%

STI and Risky Behaviors among young people15-24 years of age.

Male; 73% had sex in last six monthspreceding the study


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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.


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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 aregularpartner and 10.3% with an irregular partner.


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AAP/I-CATCH grant

Tackling Malnutrition Through Peer Education inSchools

Supported by American Academy of Pediatricsunder International Community Access to Child

Health Program(I-CATCH). University of Minnesota to provide technical

assistance through Dr.Cindy Howard, DirectorGlobal Health Program.

Dr. Kemigisha Elizabeth is the PrincipalInvestigator

Target area: Mwizi Sub-county Mbarara District

Dr.Kate Wotton, the Co-Investigator will tell usmore about this project.


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Achievements of ITP

School Peer Group Clubs established

Trained Peer Educators in Life skills, STIs,Stigma, Gender& Sexuality, Adolescence andbody changes, Career Guidance, EnvironmentalProtection, Cross generational Sex& itsimplications-Something for something Love ,Earlypregnancy avoidance.

Students have composed well crafted plays,poems, songs and other forms of drama.

One of the plays will be presented at RoseCharities International Conference in Kampala on9th March 2013.


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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 theother in S.5 at Valley College. These are orphans

and were very active members of the Peer Group

Club

Interschool club competitions held , Nyamitangawon-received a trophy and Mbarara SS was first

runner-up

Nationally approved criteria used to select winning

clubs.


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Future Plans

HEADA Uganda currently exploring possibilities of using ICTto deliver ASRH

Use of web-based peer-peer interaction under the guidanceof 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 theguidance of trained peer counselors.

School gardens

Targeting Children with special needs with Adolescent healthrelated information. Tukore School of Invalids has beenvisited& welcomes the idea. We are planning to look forsupport


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Future plans

Peer Club Newsletter

Radio programs[Serial radio drama,

community radio& radio talkshows] conducted

by peers themselves


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HIV-TESTING


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HIVPOST TEST COUNSELING


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FAMILY PLANNING


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HEADA TEAM DURING

COMMUNITY CAMPING


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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


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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 adrop in the ocean. But the ocean would be lessbecause of that missing drop. Maria Teresa

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