By Brad Kerner,

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Flex Fund Integration
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Objectives

• To review the project objectives
• Highlight the projects first year accomplishments
• Present integration model options
• Discuss successes and Challenges

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What is Sponsorship?
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Common Approach to Sponsorship-funded Programming

• Save the Children has developed the Common
  Approach to Sponsorship-funded Programs (CASP)
  which
• Focuses programming in five core program areas
  where SC has expertise and proven programmatic
  success
• Documents the approach in five program modules
  and one DME module
• Puts monitoring systems in place to measure and
  document results achieved.
• Provides program technical support to country
  offices implementing programs

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Sponsorship Core Programs
Early Childhood Development
Primary Education
School HealthNutrition
IP
HIV/AIDS
Adolescent Development
75 of Spon. program must be spent on core
programs
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Sponsorship Supports Long-term Development in
Over 20 Countries
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The Program Cycle
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Why Sponsorship for FP integration?

• Natural connections to Adolescent Development
  programs of which Adolescent Reproductive and
  Sexual Health is a key component
• Potentially easy integration into the global
  Adolescent Development CASP module
• Spon program review revealed that FP was not a
  strong component and young married girls and
  first-time mothers have not been targeted.
• FP is already integrated to grant funded Child
  survival and food security programs.

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Flex Fund Integration Project Intermediate Results

• IR1 SC organizational capacity and commitment
  within sponsorship to address family planning
  strengthened
• IR2 A model for integrating family planning into
  the AD CASP module developed
• IR3 FP actives in Malawi piloted to help inform
  the model and recommend replicable FP strategies
  within the CASP module.
• (Access, Quality, Demand, Enabling
  Environment)

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Result 3Malawi Pilot Highlights from year 1

• Increasing Access
• 45 YCBDAs trained
• 20 TBAs trained to promote exclusive
  breastfeeding
• Referral sheets linking youth to health centers
  developed

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Intermediate Result 3Malawi Pilot Highlights
from year 1

• Improving Quality
• Supervision for YCBDAs
• FP logistics workshop
• Youth Friendly Health Services

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Intermediate Result 3Malawi Pilot Highlights
from year 1

• Increasing Demand
• Teen mother sessions within youth clubs
• Peer drama at open days
• Reaching men though Male Motivators
• FP articles included in ARSH newsletter

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Intermediate Result 3Malawi Pilot Highlights
from year 1

• Improved Enabling Environment
• Initiation counselors
• Community awareness and mobilization
• Engagement on national level FP dialogues and
  meetings

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Intermediate Results 2Developing a model

• Option 1 Develop a FP appendix to the AD CASP
  module with tools
• YCBDA training and supervision tools
• FP logistics workshop methodology
• Clinical assessment tool
• M E tools to track FP utilization

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Results 2Developing a model

• Option 2
• Add successful and replicable FP activities
  into the key activity matrix currently in the
  CASP module

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Results 2Developing a model

• Situational Analysis questions included in
  updated CASP module- Feb 07
• Summer 08 Documentation of 5 key strategies and
  a case study of family planning program to be
  shared with all sponsorship programs.

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Intermediate Results 1Commitment strengthened

• Sept 2006 2 staff members from Mozambique
  sponsorship program came to the DME workshop in
  Malawi
• Feb 2007- spon annual conference Afghanistan,
  Bolivia, Philippines, Mozambique, Nepal showed
  interest
• Sept 2007 Year 1 presentation to Head Quarter
  sponsorship staff

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Successes and Challenges

• Successes
• No resistance from HQ spon staff
• Field based activities rolling out well
• Documentation of program components planned
• Historical commitment to ARSH
• Challenges
• -Phase over- focusing on younger children
• -Strategic Planning FY08-12
• -Piloting holistic programming for youth
• (Economic Opportunities'/Education/ARSH)