PROJECT OUTLINE - Dandelion Africa Sverige
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PROJECT OUTLINE WOMEN PROGRAM The program aims to empower women in marginalized areas to be self-reliant though economic livelihood projects and provision of knowledge and services on SRHR. It takes 5 years to graduate the women empowerment program. During the 5 years the women must go through different trainings including: Orientation, SBS training, Agricultural training, Rights Way Forward training, Sexual reproductive health, Nutrition/Safe cooking methods, Handiwork and Leadership training. Graduation occurs when a group has gone through all the trainings, has created self-sustained projects, are able to do table banking on their own, solve group problems on their own and when a group can apply for funding on their own. Dandelion Africa currently works with 37 women groups, with a minimum of 10 in each and a maximum of 20. Currently 15 groups are new and 17 groups have existed between 1-5 years. We work with 500 women actively and have worked with 1,500 women since inception. OTHER PROJECTS Dandelion Africa has the In-house Savings and Credit Cooperation where women can save for development, school fees and long term projects. It currently has over 1 million shillings in savings. In August 2018 Dandelion Africa officially launched the Dandelion Empowerment Fund which is a small loan that the organization gives to women groups ranging from Kshs 50,000 to Kshs 100,000 The initial fund was given by a funder and we have so far given our loans to 6 groups. Dew Drop Over 20 women have received water tanks through the Dew Drop project where they received water tanks from Dandelion Africa through the support of companies in Sweden. This has been a great help as they have indicated a steep decline in water born diseases in their homes. We hope to give an additional 20 women, water tanks in 2019. Future The aim is to add 10 new women groups each year and that they graduate after maximum 5 years. Here is a representation of what the women empowerment program includes very briefly:
ORIENTATION, SBS TRAINING, RIGHTS WAY FORWARD NUTRITION/SAFE COOKING
RIGHTS WAY FORWARD, TRAINING, PROJECT PROPOSALS, METHODS, EXTRA COURSES à
ENTREPRENEURSHIP HIV/AIDS, EXCHANGE GRADUATION:
PROGRAMME, INCOME
GENERATING ACTIVITY
ONGOING: LEADERSHIP ONGOING: LEADERSHIP ONGOING: LEADERSHIP TRAINING,
TRAINING, AGRICULTURAL TRAINING, AGRICULTURAL AGRICULTURAL TRAINING,
TRAINING, TABLEBANKING, SHR TRAINING, TABLEBANKING, SHR TABLEBANKING, SHR
2019
AIM FUNDS
10 NEW GROUPS WITH MINIMIMUM 10 PEOPLE MATERIALS, TRANSPORT
SBS TRAINING à GRADUATION CEREMONY MATERIALS, GRADUATION COSTS
AGRICULTURAL TRAINING 4 TIMES A YEAR MATERIALS, TRAINERS, TRANSPORT
SEXUAL REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH MATERIALS
EXCHANGE PROGRAM TRANSPORT
HAVE MORE GROUPS IN SARAMBEI TRANSPORT TO SARAMBEI
RIGHTS WAY FORWARD PROGRAM MATERIALS, TRANSPORT
Project summary: To empower the women in marginalized areas to be self-reliant though economic
livelihood projects and provision of knowledge and services on SRHR
To graduate; through the Women Program the women have to go through and participate in all
trainings, be able to- and have created self-sustained projects, be able to do table banking on their own,
solve group projects on their own and be able to apply for funding on their own.
Activities: Trainings: Orientation, SBS training, Agricultural training, Rights Way Forward training, Sexual
reproductive health, Nutrition/Safe cooking methods, Handiwork and Leadership training, Exchange
program, Lunch meeting
Outcomes:
• Increased knowledge on business (surveys, business startups, self-sufficient)
• Increased time for productive work
• Increase in use of family planning (statistics)
• Increase in awareness of types of family planning (surveys)
• Increase in Dew Drop projects (decrease in waterborne diseases, rise in tank take up)
• Better farming skills (projection going up in table banking)
• Decrease in waterborne diseases (statistics)
• Increase in self-made projects
• Increase self-supporting projects (books, projection)
• Increase in projects that support themselves (books, projection going up)
Indicators:
• Savings and borrowing by women
• Businesses opened by women and youth, number of businesses opened or expanded during the
grant period
• Number of women accessing contraceptives
• Better produce on farms (more savings)
• Number of women with dew drop project
• Number of women who completed SBS/SHHR
• Number of households with Improved health and sanitation
• Number of groups trained
Gaps/Risks
More leadership trainings
An extra person who can join and help for table banking
Sewing machines for support group
Weather/floods à more groups should come to Sarambei as the weather can limit Dandelion employees
from going out into the communities and being late
Fee for being late should exist in all groups
Reading and writing skills can be a challenge
YOUTH PROGRAM
The Youth Program aims to empower youth in the
community to have knowledge on their basic rights
and sexual productive health. The program consist of
two branches, the Youth Peer Provider program that
targets youth living in Mogotio sub county, Baringo
county and the Girls for Leaders, Boys for Change
program which targets parents and young persons
living in both Baringo and Nakuru county.
The Youth Peer Providers (YPPs) are trained in
teaching various topics to their peers. They go out to
schools and teach boys and girls in class 4 – 8 and high
schools, on topics connected to SRH. They follow a
curriculum that includes topics such as; Dream Course
Method, Puberty and Body Changes, Pregnancy,
Abstinence, Sexual Harassment and Abuse, HIV and AIDS, STIs, Traditional influences; FGM, GBV, Drug and
Substance Abuse, Love and Infatuation, Relationships, Abortion and Menstruation. Every term the
curriculum starts over and every topic is taught for 2 months (depending on the school). Besides going to
schools, the YPP’s are also sent out to communities with a high rate of school drop outs to talk to both the
youth and the elders about how to create change. The program runs for 1 year and the aim for 2019 is to
reach 45 new schools.
Girls for Leaders, Boys for Change also follows a curriculum that includes similar topics as the YPP’s. The
G4L/B4C conduct Roadshows and Skits to reach the people in the communities through a fun and
interesting way. Their aim is to visit at least one village every time they are on holiday from school. The
program runs for one year and the aim every year is for 1500 girls and 2000 boys to join the program and
for 1000 youths to use the services provided.
Here is a representation of what the youth program includes over the main three years:
Class 6 Class 7 Class 8 and high schools
Dream Course Method, Puberty STIs, Traditional Influences, FGM, Relationships, Abortion,
and Body Changes, Pregnancy, GBV, Drug and Substance Abuse, Menstruation, Extra topics (by
Abstinence, Sexual Harassment Love and infatuation request), Evaluation
and Abuse, HIV and AIDS
After the evaluation and exams, which happen in class 8 the students proceed to high school where the
program continues with a focus on mentorship. After high school they move on to tertiary; university or
college where they services also are provided.
2019
AIM FUNDING
Reaching 45 schools in Mogotio, Rongai and Transport, lunch
Amboseli areasMore outreaches Transport, lunch,
Stakeholder meetings 4 times/year Reimbursement of time, lunch
Awareness campaigns 4 times/year Transport, lunch, materials
Tournaments 4 times/year Transport, lunch, materials
Expanding the library Books
Record a skit in a studio, a movie free of charge Rent for studio, materials
that people can watch at home – lasts longer and
the content stays.
Project Summary: The Youth Program was established to strengthen the capacity of Dandelion Africa to
offer youth friendly SRHR service to adolescents and youth aged 11-24 years in Mogotio and Rongai sub
counties. The project aims to empower youth to have knowledge on their sexual reproductive health and
gain knowledge on their basic rights.
Activities:
Girls For Leaders:
• Distribution of sanitary towels
• Distribution of solar lamps
• Exam; setting, evaluation, marking and analysis
• Sexuality GBV and motivational talks in schools
• Library equipped with books and serving on Saturdays and holidays
• Exchange visits to Vanessa grant girls high school and rural schools.
• Training of chiefs from Rongai sub county on GBV
• Visit VGGS admit new mentors and train them
Boys For Change:
• Stakeholders meeting involving teachers
• Distribution of boxers and underpants
• Distribution of solar lamps
• Exams setting, evaluation, marking & analysis
• Sexuality and GBV talks in schools
• Library equipped with books and serving on Saturdays and holidays
• Awareness creating to villages to their peers at home
• Training of chiefs from Rongai sub county on GBV
• Visit identified boys schools and request for mentorship program and possibly have two
exchange
YPPs:
• Training of YPPs to enhance their capacity
• Sexuality, GBV and motivational talks in schools• Visiting the communities and villages with SRH services
• Tournament and outreach services targeting the youths with SRH services
• Publicizing DUM clinic as youth friendly center
• Training of 60 stakeholders from Solai ward on GBV and SRH
• Youths out of school encouraged to visit DARC for experience sharing, learning and counseling on
SRH and life skills
Outcomes:
• Increased knowledge on SRHR issues among adolescents, Youth and men in 5 villages
• All youth in and out of school have access to youth friendly SRHR services
• High transition rate for both boys and girls
• Boys supporting girl’s rights
• Higher academic performance for both sexes
Indicators:
• Decrease in early pregnancies/low pregnancy rate
• Decrease in school drop-outs
• More girls and boys wanting to join the program
• Number of youth receiving contraceptives
• Number of youth accessing SHSR services from static outreaches
• Proportion of young people with correct information on SHR issues
• Exam results
• School enrollment
• Low STI rates/Decrease in STI rates
Gaps/Risks
Government and teachers limit what the YPPs can talk about (contraceptives)
Early pregnancies are still happening few schools
Family Planning, Contraceptives shortage and restricted (Government and Teachers),
Time is not enough to train in schools
We need to construct a Youth Center/Safe Space somewhere else where the youth can open up
Some have been affected with FGM, parents and people are questioning – we need to develop a Do No
Harm policy.HEALTH PROGRAM
The program aims to improve access to quality
youth friendly and client-centered sexual
reproductive health and health care services. It
includes the Dandelion-Ulla Marie Clinic, a static
clinic, mobile nurse and mobile outreaches.
Mobile Nurse: Is a targeted project that only
focuses on specific villages for specific health
services. There are 2 Nurses employed by
Dandelion who work in these villages. They only
offer, immunization, family planning and cervical
cancer screening. The aim of this project is to
reduce infant mortality by ensuring every child is immunized and to ensure people with disability can be
reached in their homes. The nurse is sometimes accompanied by the Youth Peer Providers and community
health volunteers (CHVs). The visited villages are chosen from their type, amount of population and the
needs. The villages are assessed in cooperation with the Mogotio Health Center. The community Health
Volunteers help mobilizing the community.
Mobile Outreach: Around 8 outreaches are conducted each month . In order to do an outreach the
Dandelion staff has to inform the chief of the area, inform the village elders, do a survey and check out the
location. We provide all health services including general treatment, HIV testing, family planning,
immunization and cancer screening.
Current villages under the mobile nurse.
• Lomolo A – Distance, Poverty, IDPs – Twice a month
• Lomolo Estate – Twice a month
• Mtotoni – Distance, Expensive – Twice a month
• Banita – Once a month
• Kwokwomoi – Twice a month
• Athinai – Seisal Estate - Twice a month
• Static Outreach – Mogotio (market days: Tuesday, Friday)
Outcome:
• Defaulters get immunized
• Increase in people getting tested for HIV
• Increase in people getting access to medical service and medicine
• Increase in number of women getting screened for Cervical Cancer
• Increase in number of women taking up contraceptives
• Increase in people attending clinics
• Increase in knowledge around family planning for both men and women
Indicators:Number of family planning clients
Number of referred family planning methods at static clinic
Number of cervical screening patients
Number of referred cervical cancer screening patients at static clinic
Number of children immunized at outreaches and mobile nurse clinic
Number of clients screened for HIV/AIDS
Number of children dewormed in schools
LONG TERM PROJECTS
Dandelion Ulla Marie Clinic was constructed because of our sustainability plan in health. In the last 8
months since we opened our doors, we have seen approximately 3,000 patients most of them being
children under 5 years.
We offer the following services.
ü General Treatment
ü Laboratory services
ü Immunization
ü Family planning
ü Cervical cancer screening
ü HTS services
DANDELION MATERNITY CENTRE
We started the construction of the maternity centre in August this year with the support of Construction
For Change. Below is the progress. We hope to completely finish by January 2019.You can also read
