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Project Geographic Location (Subcounties): Loro, Aber, Iceme, Ngai and Oyam Town Council
Total amount to be contributed locally Unskilled labour, vehicles for campaign and other services
Full physical address of the organization: Alimo B Village, Alidi Parish, Loro Sub-county, Oyam District
Telephone number (s): +256777319001
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1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Teenage pregnancy affects more girls’ education in Uganda more than other factors combined. Girls
are given to marriage between the ages of 10 to 18 years than boys, and get affected in different ways
and end in poverty. This campaign will use different mediums and strategies to find solutions to end
teenage pregnancy and make provision for girls impregnated and orphaned and improve their access
to basic facilities and services. This project will respond to the prevalence by strengthening the
management of activities in the selected target sub-counties, through offering integrated
comprehensive Care, Prevention and support Services.
The campaign will complement the efforts of the Government of Uganda, whereby the aim will be to
enhance the implementation of related policy and legal instruments’ commitment to end teenage
pregnancies.
The Campaign is really a teenage pregnancy Prevention activity, beginning to explore possibilities of
going to scale, with encouraging signs that such structural efforts will aimed at other goals, such
as education, health, and poverty reduction. The project will increase access to and uptake of
comprehensive post management services and linkage to care providers within the sub-counties. In
addition, gender based sexual and physical violence against young women and girls have been
associated with increased risk of teenage pregnancy, sexual infection, deaths and may affect the
demand for and utilization of services.
The campaign will involve all the aspects of empowering and sustain-abling the girl-child. The project
will expand and scale-up support and care to 80% of those affected by the year 2018. In
complementing the efforts of the Government of Uganda to end child marriage and teenage pregnancies,
through this campaign, Child Help have the potential to prevent child marriage and teenage
pregnancy, and will therefore, uptake specific services and addressing some of its drivers, with
dedicated spaces that guarantee success through eradicating of poverty, expanding of economic
opportunity, promoting of women’s empowerment and promoting of girls’ education.
Child Help will consider strategies beyond standard programmatic interventions, especially
innovative social change mechanisms to speed up the pace of change, such as the power of 21st
century technologies for communication, connection, education and mobilization’’. Child Help’s,
teenage pregnancy prevention project has begun exploring possibilities of scale-up, but there are
encouraging signs that this large-scale structural efforts, ‘’Campaign2End teenage pregnancy’’ that
will address more issues in child marriage; formulate strategies / procedures / policies to end child,
early forceful marriage and support unwanted babies, resulting in education, health and poverty
reduction through creating an enabling environment, training of community stakeholders, raise
awareness about the negative consequences of child marriage; sharing information and creating safe
spaces; providing non-cash incentives and scholarships for girls and families; Peer Exchange;
d i s t r i b u t i o n o f c o n t r a c e p t i v e s , Advocate for new policies and enforcement of existing
laws, community events such as national debates, fun Marathon and Forum, empowering girls and
women that results in health, education and livelihood; This exercise will also contribute to the
attainment of the 6 out of 8 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs
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2.0 BACKGROUND
Child Help Uganda is a non-profit, non-governmental child and youth focused organization founded in
2010 and committed to achieving a community in which all children and youth realize their full
potential in societies that respect people’s rights and dignity. To deliver its development and capacity
building programs, Child Help receives funding every year. It mobilizes financial resources (from
individuals, government, foundations and corporate), and multi-laterals (the World Bank and UN
agencies). Approximately 72% of this funding comes from individual sponsors. Child Help Uganda
has 10 employees and 20 volunteers, who provide leadership, management and support to Program
Offices.
The core components of Child Help Uganda’s development and capacity building programs include
basic education, health and nutrition, household livelihood security and economic development, and
water and sanitation and also includes child protection, research, human resource management,
fundraising and resource mobilization, networking, communications innovations, and budgeting. Child
Help Uganda’s needy-centered approach makes it both sensitive to and informed about the dynamics
of poverty.
Specifically, Child Help Uganda understands how to engage youth in participatory processes to design
and implement campaigns. It is also a practitioner of “peer education,” a technique that will be used in
this campaign. Child Help Uganda is partnering with local and international Organisations to meet its
goal and objectives and to engage youth as actors in their own development and undertake social and
economic interventions that reduce vulnerability to poverty, disease, hunger and other difficult
situations, which will contribute to creation of social systems that promote peace, human welfare and
the sustainability of the environment on which life depends, including promotion and protection of
fundamental human rights in its geographical areas of mandate.
Child Help Uganda is involved in the development of youths, to ensure that every youth can reach their
full potential, defined in terms of youth rights to survival, protection, education and active participation
in society. These are the main pillars of the MDGs, the Rights of the Child (CRC), African Commission
on Human and People’s Rights, the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
(ACERWC), the Solemn Declaration on Gender Equality and the African Youth Charter to name,
which underpin Child Help Uganda’s centered community development approach. Child Help Uganda
has an outstanding track record in the area of Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights of youths,
agriculture development, Non-formal education, water-sanitation, and health and nutrition.
Summary of the Rationale for Partnership with Child Help Uganda on Ending Child Marriage:
Child Help Uganda possesses multiple strengths with respect to its capacity to implement this
campaign. They include the following:
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• Child Help Uganda’s youth-centered approach, which makes it sensitive to and informed about the
dynamics of child marriage and youth poverty. Child Help Uganda understands how to engage youth
in participatory processes to create campaign designs and implement campaigns. It is also a
practitioner of “peer education”, a technique that will be used in this campaign.
• Child Help Uganda works in human rights, women and girls’ initiatives. Over 50,000 individual
participants have benefited to date in partnership with international organisations including Tools
foundation, Crossroads Foundations, Commonwealth of Learning, etc. Child Help Uganda is one of
the leading practitioners to end early and forceful marriage with methodology and youth members
in the Northern region. - The great majority being female.
• Child Help Uganda has a longstanding and established presence in Northern. This long term presence
at the grassroots level means organizational credibility, support to and from government,
communities, civil society organizations and other development partners. Child Help Uganda’s long
history and relationship with the communities and youth groups is key to creating genuine
community and youth involvement and ownership of the project.
• Child Help Uganda’s youth focus will add value to its partnership with local project implementing
partners (local institutions, corporate partners, community health development institutions and
organizations, district councils, children and youth organizations.
• Five years’ experience in organizing a youth-led campaign design process and applying the
methodology. The proposed project also contributes heavily toward Child Help Uganda’s larger
gender-based strategy which commits to reach out to over 400,000 clients (both youth and adult) in
24 months through campaigns, awareness raising, debates, moonlight outreaches, 1000-participant
marathon and 300- participant forum events. The project will contribute to the outreach numbers and
facilitate learning to strengthen the women and girls’ population.
• Child Help Uganda has superior in-house expertise to ensure program excellence: an international
expert Child Marriage advisor, a cadre of Child Marriage and livelihood specialists, with extensive
technical, capacity building and direct field implementation in many districts.
Vision.
A society in which the local population is empowered to equitable access to the whole spectrum of
quality social and humanitarian services.
Mission:
Is to work in a holistic manner towards improvement in the quality of life through interventions that
reduce vulnerability to illiteracy, ignorance poverty, disease, hunger, gross abuse of human rights to
improve the quality of life of children and their families.
Child Help Uganda’s broad objectives are to: Achieve social and economic development and
improved quality of life for poor and disadvantaged rural households and communities with emphasis
on women and children, youth, the elderly, the disabled persons, orphans and other specialized groups
of vulnerable children within Child Help Uganda’s geographical scope of operation. To affirm the
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enduring values of peace, social justice and human dignity and integrity in settings where these values
are not always taken for granted. To improve the health, Education and Livelihood conditions of
communities through elimination of poverty in the environment that lead to loneliness, hungry,
suffering and untimely death.
Child Help Uganda is a registered non-Profit social-humanitarian focused youth and children
development organisation established in October 2010. It is registered as a Community service based
organisation. Child Help Uganda is established to undertake social and economic interventions that
reduce vulnerability to poverty, disease, hunger and other difficult situations, and to contribute to
creation of social systems that promote peace, human welfare and the sustainability of the environment
on which life depends, including promotion and protection of fundamental human rights in its
geographical areas of mandate.
Paramount is the children, youths and their families we serve. To act with passion for the
poor, the disadvantaged and the vulnerable, while upholding credibility and professionalism.
Child Help Uganda seeks to create an operating culture based on open and honest dialogue,
team-working and collective decision-making.
We value the knowledge and experience of our colleagues and institutional allies around the
world and seek always to ensure that their ideas are accommodated in our decision-making
processes.
The organization, seek always to be flexible and adaptable, responding quickly to changing
circumstances and learning from practice.
We will make every effort to capture what we learn from others, both what works and what
doesn't in order to enhance our own knowledge and understanding, and to share this with
others.
Child Help Uganda Main Program Areas: 1. Development, 2. Advocacy and 3. Relief
Geographical Scope of Child Help Uganda and Target Groups: Loro Sub-county, Aber Sub-county,
Iceme Sub-county, Ngai Sub-county and Oyam Town Council.
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heading families, widows and other specialized groups like the deaf, the blind, street children, children
working under exploitative and hazardous conditions and young prostitutes.
The organizational structure is composed of the following: Annual General Assembly, Executive
Committee, Board of Management, The Secretariat (Executive Management), and Project
Manager/Field Staff
4.0 JUSTIFICATION
Teenage pregnancy is pregnancy in human females under the age of 20 at the time that the pregnancy
ends (the age of the mother is determined by the easily verified date when the pregnancy ends, not by
the estimated date of conception). A pregnancy can take place in a pubertal female before menarche
(the first menstrual period), which signals the possibility of fertility, but usually occurs after menarche.
In well-nourished girls, menarche usually takes place around the ages of 12 or 13. In reporting teenage
pregnancy rates worldwide, the number of pregnancies per 1,000 females aged 15 to 19 when the
pregnancy ends is generally used.
According to findings by the United National Population Fund (UNFPA) 2013 on teenage pregnancy,
of the 1.2 million pregnancies registered annually in Uganda, more than 300,000 of them are of girls
below 19 years. This also forms the bulk of the nearly 700,000 pregnancies which are unwanted. The
picture gets grimmer when you learn that these teenage girls also end up as the majority who procure
abortions largely because most of these pregnancies are a product of sexual abuse, revealing that over
5% of Ugandan women aged 15 to 49 performs unsafe abortions every year. More findings reveal that
almost 4 out of 10 (38%) of the unintended pregnancies in Uganda result in abortion, and an estimated
362,000 induced abortion occurred in 2009 compared to 297,000 in 2003 suggesting an upward trend.
The health data system reveals that most of these pregnancies are a product of early marriages,
ignorance, and lack of access to reproductive health information, poverty and including cultural
practices. Of these, poverty seems to stand out. Statistics from Uganda Bureau of Statistics show that
adolescents from poor families are more likely to get pregnant than their colleagues from wealthier
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families but abortion is common among both. Even when the girls have been abused, the poorer families
are most likely to let the abuser get away with their crime than the well-to-do families.
6.0 OBJECTIVE
i) Overall project objective
Reducing teenage pregnancies will be a goal entwined with achieving other health, welfare, or
empowerment outcomes for girls and young women.
The priority areas under this objective include
1) Scaling up teenage pregnancy counseling and support to facilitate universal access;
2) Integrating teenage pregnancy prevention into care and support services; and
3) Provision of home based care (HBC) for survivors with pregnancies and new born babies.
Therefore, the overall Goal of this project is to contribute towards ending early pregnancy through
Strengthening and Scaling up Access to Quality Prevention, Advocacy, referral and counselling
Services, and Socio-education Support to survivors in Oyam District by 2020.
By the end of this project, 200 teenage mothers would be reached in five sub-counties in Oyam District.
30 Girls Not Brides Clubs will be formed and supported to be part of a larger network of Girls Not
Brides in the World. 30 groups of families will be formed and supported with IGA’s Livelihood projects
for their Socio-Economic Security. The project goal will improve the quality of life of child brides and
teenage pregnancy, by mitigating their health effects, the social, cultural and economic effects on them
at individual, household and community levels. This project will reduce and mitigate a myriad of
challenges and will significantly address the massive prevalence of poverty which in reality affects the
low income category in the identified district communities.
Project Activities
Teenage pregnancy has been fully recognized as having an impact on social and economic
development. It depletes human resources, fragments social structures, constrains economic expansion
and productivity, and negatively impacts on the lives of human being. The major control strategies and
programmes that Child Help Uganda proposes to use include:
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The centre mandate of addressing teenage pregnancy is being done through enforcing of laws and
enacting new laws that prevent men impregnating and marriage girls below the age of prescribed by
law, community education, an effective dialogue, community engagements, the use of music and drama
performances, testimonies, sensitization of adolescents
Our prevention strategy incorporates Behavior Change from Communication as we recognize that
environments influence people’s decisions and activities involved with child marriage and teenage
pregnancy and that it is not enough to attract and interest young women and girls in the prevention
program, but is also crucial to motivate them to make decisions and take actions based on the
information we provide. Through the synergy of our prevention campaigns, use of peer educators, and
our previous behavioral impacts, we are confident that our prevention campaigns will lead to behavior
change.
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Empowering communities and districts (public, private, NGO and faith based actors) by
building their capacity to plan and implement effective strategies for prevention, care, support
and mitigation of teenage pregnancy.
Protecting young women and girls in primary schools Oyam district from marrying and be
pregnant early by providing correct information in order to empower them to adopt protective
behaviours regarding such practices.
Intensifying the fight against teenage pregnancy and sexual transmitted diseases in the
informal sectors in urban and peri-urban areas, through condom programs, provision of
preventive information and education and by increasing access to preventive health services
(clinics deal Treatment, care, and support for young women and girls who are abused)
Working with all the systems, community, family, and individual level to achieve a multi
sectoral and comprehensive response to child early marriage and teenage pregnancy by
creating a supportive legislative and community environment in which the girl-children and
eligible families receive assistance, based on their own determination of needs and strengths.
Partnering with CBOs, as the leading local organization in most communities, with built in
leadership, positive social values, a widespread network for communication and outreach,
and voluntary human resources.
Building the technical and management capacity of local district councils, NGOs, CBOs, and
the private sector to maximize access to available benefits (e.g., health, education, and social
Services) and add services where needed, such as home-based care and orphan vulnerable
support.
Preventing sexual transmitted disease and infections with a focus on empowering the girl-
child and young women, the labor force, and the community at large through the use of both
behavior formation and behavior change interventions.
Training young women, community leaders and girls in counseling techniques in child
marriage and teenage pregnancy.
Holding monthly debates and moderations on how to support the survivors.
The district councils will establish strong links with CBOs, groups, CSOs, and community-
based services for home-based care and support for Orphan Voluntary Care
Regular monitoring and evaluation
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7.0 OUTPUT AND ACTIVITIES
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10. PROPOSED BUDGET FOR 12 MONTHS
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Subtotal Activity 5 7,860
Development and Production of quality of Care
Protocol and Monitoring Protocol for Child
Marriage campaign
a Development of IEC Materials 300 copies 10 3,000
b Printing of client cards, registers and office - 1,500 1,500
materials
c Office/Client operational referral cost Already - -
d Computerization of accounting system and training - 1,800 1,800
senior staff on Management Techniques
e Purchases (Local): one Honda 125, one 3 kva - 5,000 5,000
Generator,
f Peer Exchange visits as Hands on support
orientation to ChildHelp
g Monitoring and evaluation -3 i 2 400
2,100 2 400
2,100
Subtotal Activity 4 15,800
52,955
5% contingency / miscellaneous 2,647.75
Exchange Rate
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