Name of Project Manager: Dieudonne Irankunda.
Project Title: Youth Against HIV and AIDS 2011.
Project Location: Musanze district, Northern Province, Rwanda.
Project duration:
Total project Cost in USA $:
Project Background/ Need Statement/ Problem Analysis:
My project will operate in Musanze, a developing city in the Northern Province of Rwanda. The city is one among the densely populated in the country having a high number of youth living there. My project is aimed at addressing the issue of ignorance about HIV and AIDS which leads young people to contract HIV and AIDS and face its negative consequences.
Because of ignorance about HIV and AIDS the youth in Musanze district are vulnerable to contracting HIV and AIDS because of economic weakness. Because of economic weakness the students in Musanze district often become soft targets to the rich old people. Here the old people lead these students into sex in exchange of the money which the student’s parents can not afford for the students to buy expensive fashion clothes. More to that the youth in Musanze district are vulnerable to contracting HIV and AIDS because of the culture of sharing in this area. Here in Musanze district people including the youth can share things up to the point of sharing sharp skin piercing instruments like razor blades and more worse in cultural practices like circumcision where knives are shared and used repeatedly to treat people.
Although some measures to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS have been put in place in Musanze district like Adverts on the radios and Notices put in public places like the hospitals, there is still need to involve the youth especially the high school students in the people to be sensitized about HIV and AIDS. This is because they are among the people who are vulnerable to contract HIV and AIDS which the project Youth Against HIV and AIDS has taken the initiative to do.
Baseline Project Information:
We shall obtain the accurate information about how much the high school students know about HIV and AIDS before the project’s actions by sending questionnaires to the schools around Musanze district. At each school two questionnaires will be filled students; one from O- level and another from A-level. Then the findings shall be documented and will be later used when making the project’s evaluation.
Project Summary Description:
With the view that high school students in Musanze district have limited knowledge about HIV and AIDS, Youth Against HIV and AIDS 2011 has taken initiative to raise awareness about HIV and AIDS among high school students in Musanze district.
The project will approach these students by having an educating session about HIV and AIDS plus a training session about raising awareness about HIV and AIDS where 35 students’ representatives will attend the event. And also the project will sponsor the Anti Aids clubs in Musanze to produce a video song and an audio song about HIV and AIDS.
Project Goal/Aim:
The aim of the project Youth Against HIV and AIDS 2011 is to raise awareness about HIV and AIDS among the high school students in Musanze district.
Project Objectives: Our smart objectives are;
1. To hold a one day event in 2011 high school students holidays of July to August which will gather 35 students representatives from high schools around Musanze district who will be educated about HIV and AIDS and trained to raise awareness on this very issue in order for them to help raise awareness about HVI and AIDS in their schools.
2. Provided that most schools in Musanze district have Ant Aids clubs, prepare a competition where the clubs will compete in order to sponsor the team with the best song about HIV and AIDS produce an audio song about HIV and AIDS and select students from all clubs who will be sponsored to produce a video song about HIV and AIDS.
3. Make the actions of Youth Against HIV and AIDS 2011 and our message of raising awareness about HIV and AIDS known to the public and youth in other districts through the media (a newspaper).
Project Activities: Our key activities;
1. Educating our participants about HIV and AIDS. Here 35 participants will be educated about the causes of HIV and AIDS and it’s consequences on the individual level by medical personnel and it’s consequences on the society and the country level shall be taught by a local government officer. This shall also include activities like film screening.
2. Training our participants about how to raise awareness about HIV and AIDS so that they gain the skills they will need in order to raise awareness about HIV and AIDS in their schools.
3. The clubs competition. This clubs activity will gather Anti Aids clubs from around Musanze district where they will compete and the club with the best song about HIV and AIDS will be sponsored to produce their song in the studio.
Project Beneficiaries:
Our project beneficiaries are high school students; boys and girls within the group of 12-20 years from Musanze district, Northern Province, Rwanda. These are students who are among the vulnerable groups that contract HIV and AIDS and have little knowledge about HIV and AIDS. These students are vulnerable to contract HIV and AIDS because they are soft targets of the old people who promise to give them money in exchange of sexual intercourse. In addition they are vulnerable to HIV and AIDS through social sharing of sharp skin piercing instruments and in practices like circumcision. Therefore by raising awareness about HIV and AIDS these students they will gain knowledge which help them to make informed decisions to prevent against HIV and AIDS.
Target Community input:
The target community input of the project; Youth Against HIV/AIDS 2011 is Musanze district. This community will contribute the following to the project.
- A room where the training and education session will take place.
- A hall where the competitions will take place.
- The district will contribute educators who will help to run the education session.
Community Participation and Collaboration:
The target community was involved in shaped the project; Youth Against HIV and AIDS by contributing ideas. Here the high school students gave a proposal that a project which can involve young people in raising awareness about HIV and AIDS to fellow students would be more effective in passing out the message to the youth. In addition the elders in the community proposed that the project to be successful would require experts on the issue to first educate the students. Where both of these views were incorporated in the project.
The community’s role in the project will be:
- High school students in Musanze district participating in the project as people who will be trained and educated about HIV and AIDS.
- Working with the district people and other people from the organizations like centre Dushishoze who will help the project team to run the educating session and the clubs competition.
Innovation:
Our project; Youth Agaisnt HIV/AIDS 2011 is a new project which is student lead and non profit seeking. The project has included new ways to help the high school students acquire knowledge about HIV and AIDS these ways include; training high school students who will help educate their fellow students about HIV and AIDS by raising awareness about this issue in their schools, and sponsoring the high school students club to produce a song about HIV and AIDS which will help to spread the message about HIV and AIDS.
Project Outcome:
Our project output will have impact to the targeted group: high school students around Musanze district. The project will make the high school students aware of the pandemic HIV and AIDS and consequently will take informed decisions about their lives.
Project sustainability:
Our short project has put in place methods which will ensure that the project’s gains and vision are maintained long after the projects completion. By spreading of the message about HIV and AIDS by the students participants in our project in their respective schools, the message about HIV and AIDS will be passed on to students in their schools.
Project Partnerships:
Our project will work with medical personnel to educate the participants about causes and effects of HIV and AIDS to an individual and the local government by having a local government officer present in our education session where this officer will educate the participants about HIV and AIDS consequences to the society.
The private enterprise which shall work with our project is a studio. This studio will bring the Sound systems which shall help in voice projections during the trainings and the competition of the clubs in singing, and will also help in the film screening.
We shall also work with Aid for Smiles an international youth lead organization as a youth group which shall help us to get a documentary movie plus a booklet containing information about HIV and AIDS. These materials shall act as learning aids to high school students.
In addition we shall work with a faith based organization; Son rise high school, a school found by the EER Shyira Diocese (protestant church). They will lend us a room where the educating and training sessions of the participants will take place.
More to that our project will collaborate with Centre Dushishoze an Anti Aids youth centre to get their main hall where the clubs competition will take place, and which centre we shall have one of their staff during the competition and will act as a judge.
Communication and Sharing:
Our project will communicate and share the outcomes with the community, partners, funders and the public so that any future possible project like ours will not duplicate our services in these ways;
- We shall give our project to the partners and funders whom we shall later present our evaluations results to. This will show these stakeholders the efforts and all the inputs which made our project successful.
- We shall also make sure that the information about our project’s plan, actions, and outcomes are available to the public by sharing this information with the Anti Aids centre for any possible reference.
Mobilizing Support;
We shall mobilize local support from the target schools in Musanze district and the district it’s self by sending them letters asking them to recognize our projects actions and to participate actively in them by sending the students an educators respectively.
As a project manager I will convince other students who are involved in social change at school and in their communities to join the project team by letting them know of the opportunities available like trainings and allowances which will be given to the project team.
I will also provide room for other people to be involved in making a change through our project by allowing the project team members to have another person to assist them in their roles to the project.
Financial Management principles:
Our funds manager will manage the funds of the project according to the budget allocated to certain amounts of money allocated to certain activities in the project. But in cases where there might be changes the whole project members will be notified to agree with other spending amounts.
Funds Raising:
Our project Youth Against HIV and AIDS shall present the project plan to possible funders like CNLS an organization in Rwanda which is responsible to fight against HIV and AIDS. We shall also contact a private studio in Musanze district which might give support to our project by granting us a free song production about HIV and AIDS.
Evaluations:
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Saturday, August 14, 2010
The main assumptions i have made during my project plan that i want to learn more about;
1. The high schools across Musanze district, Northern Province, Rwanda which can be represented at our project’s training session.
2. The possible funders that can support my project financially and in partnership with them.
3. The possible manageable number of students’ representative that can be educated about HIV/AIDS from our training session and pass on the new knowledge thoroughly well across Musanze district.
Project Management e-course ; Project Evaluation Plan
Project title : Youth Against HIV/AIDS 2011,
Project Manager: Dieudonne Irankunda.
Purpose and scope of evaluation: The purpose and scope of my evaluation is to share with the key project partners and donor the overall progress of the project and the impact of the project to the target group, as well as provide them with the accurate information about how the project’s money was spent. Through the evaluation i also want to learn more about any needs of the participants in spreading their new knowledge about HIV/AIDS in their schools and what could be changed to the training so that any possible future participants would be well equipped to spread the knowledge about HIV/AIDS. In addition through the evaluation i also want to provide recommendation to HIV/AIDS organization in Rwanda about how similar projects can be held through out the country and how high school students can be well taught about HIV/AIDS. More to that through the evaluation i also want to review what worked well and what did not so that i can improve my ability to design and run good projects.
Stakeholder involvement: the following people will be involved in the evaluation.
Students’ representative – we will involve the students representatives by getting their feedback during and after the project. We shall also ask them to form 5groups of 7 which will enable us to get the 5 statements at the end of the training about what they achieved through the project.
Project team members – The communications coordinator will receive any information about the participant’s initiatives to raise awareness in their schools and visit them, plus reporting to the project manager after seeing what has been done. The project manager will manage the evaluation and write a final report two months after the projects’ completion.
A headmaster of on of the participants – when the participants start taking initiatives to raise awareness in their schools, the communications coordinator will inquire from one of the participants’ headmaster to know how they are impacting their schools.
Partners and funders – The partners and funders will provide guidance about what they expect and in the evaluation. They can also provide a formal format for writing the evaluation report. They will read the final evaluation report and can give feedback/ask questions.
Indicators of achievement:
Objective 1: To have an event in 2011 high school students’ holidays which will gather 35 students’ representatives from different schools in Musanze district who will be educated about HIV/AIDS, enabling them to raise awareness in their schools.
Indicators:
•The number of students who complete the training session.
•The number of students who take initiatives to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS in their schools.
Evidence required, when it will be got and from whom;
1.Number of students who start training, at start of project, from Dieudonne
2.Number of students who end training, at the end of project, from Dieudonne
3.Statements from participants about what they gained, throughout the project, from the communications coordinator
4.Photographas of participants during training ,throughout the project, from a photographer
5.Statements from one of the participants Headmaster, after the project, from communications coordianator
Objective2: Provided that most schools around Musanze district have Anti Aids clubs select a club with a good song and sponsor them take it to studio.
Indicators:
• Competition between the groups
• The winner club’s song from the studio.
Evidence required, when it will be got and from whom;
1. The clubs lyrics of their songs, at competition, from Dieudonne.
2. Photographs of the clubs competing, at competition, from a photographer.
3. Statements/interviews from the clubs accompanying teacher,at competition, from the communications coordinator
Objective3: Have one story in the media (Newspaper) about the event with information about the actions of Youth Against HIV/AIDS in the training session.
Indicators:
• A published story in the newspaper about Youth Against HIV/AIDS 2011 actions in Musanze.
• The other Youth apart from our participants reads ours actions and our message.
Evidence required, when it will ge got and from whom;
1.A copy of the published Newspaper containing our story, about a week after our training sessions, from Dieudonne.
2.Quotes from the youth who reads our story in the newspaper, a week after our story has been published, from Communications Coordinator.
Baseline information: Before we start our project we will collect the statistics about the Youth who live with HIV/AIDS in Rwanda from any organization that deals with HIV/AIDS. In addition we shall collect the information about high school students’ knowledge on HIV/AIDS, how often they are taught about HIV/AIDS at school and at home. We shall collect this information from the projects participants while using the questionnaire method at the begging of the project.
Evaluation and tools technique: At the beginning of the project we shall have the participants write what they hope to gain from the training which we shall compare with the final statements about what they will have achieved from the training. In this process they will also write how they will share their new knowledge with their fellows at school.
On a daily basis we shall Get feedback from participants for them to get the most out of it, and share with others what is new to them after each lesson.
At the end of the training; make the participants form 5 groups of 7 to write about their new knowledge and achievements through the course.
After the training the Communications Coordinator will visit the one school where initiative about HIV/AIDS will have taken place to get to know how our participant are influencing their schools.
Logistical and resources consideration;
Time: Our evaluation will take place through out the life of our project and after two months of finishing training we will have written reports to major partners and funders, and the progress of our participants in raising awareness about HIV/AIDS in their schools.
Money: Our main costs will be Photographs taking and processing, communications cost between the project team members, follow up travel costs and food for the evaluation stakeholders during the 2 months of evaluation.( costs will be detailed in in the budget index.)
People: The project manager and the communications coordinator will manage the evaluation and can get assistance from the partners.
Approach to the analysis of information: At the end of the training session we shall discuss what worked well and what did not work with the participants, and from all the written reports we shall draw our conclusions about the success of the project.
Reporting and communication of outcomes/learning: within a two months period after the end of the project we shall produce evaluation reports evidenced by the participants’ statements plus the community peoples’ interviews. We shall send our written reports to our partners and funders, with recommendations about if similar projects can be done across Rwanda to better the knowledge of high school students about HIV/AIDS.
1. The high schools across Musanze district, Northern Province, Rwanda which can be represented at our project’s training session.
2. The possible funders that can support my project financially and in partnership with them.
3. The possible manageable number of students’ representative that can be educated about HIV/AIDS from our training session and pass on the new knowledge thoroughly well across Musanze district.
Project Management e-course ; Project Evaluation Plan
Project title : Youth Against HIV/AIDS 2011,
Project Manager: Dieudonne Irankunda.
Purpose and scope of evaluation: The purpose and scope of my evaluation is to share with the key project partners and donor the overall progress of the project and the impact of the project to the target group, as well as provide them with the accurate information about how the project’s money was spent. Through the evaluation i also want to learn more about any needs of the participants in spreading their new knowledge about HIV/AIDS in their schools and what could be changed to the training so that any possible future participants would be well equipped to spread the knowledge about HIV/AIDS. In addition through the evaluation i also want to provide recommendation to HIV/AIDS organization in Rwanda about how similar projects can be held through out the country and how high school students can be well taught about HIV/AIDS. More to that through the evaluation i also want to review what worked well and what did not so that i can improve my ability to design and run good projects.
Stakeholder involvement: the following people will be involved in the evaluation.
Students’ representative – we will involve the students representatives by getting their feedback during and after the project. We shall also ask them to form 5groups of 7 which will enable us to get the 5 statements at the end of the training about what they achieved through the project.
Project team members – The communications coordinator will receive any information about the participant’s initiatives to raise awareness in their schools and visit them, plus reporting to the project manager after seeing what has been done. The project manager will manage the evaluation and write a final report two months after the projects’ completion.
A headmaster of on of the participants – when the participants start taking initiatives to raise awareness in their schools, the communications coordinator will inquire from one of the participants’ headmaster to know how they are impacting their schools.
Partners and funders – The partners and funders will provide guidance about what they expect and in the evaluation. They can also provide a formal format for writing the evaluation report. They will read the final evaluation report and can give feedback/ask questions.
Indicators of achievement:
Objective 1: To have an event in 2011 high school students’ holidays which will gather 35 students’ representatives from different schools in Musanze district who will be educated about HIV/AIDS, enabling them to raise awareness in their schools.
Indicators:
•The number of students who complete the training session.
•The number of students who take initiatives to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS in their schools.
Evidence required, when it will be got and from whom;
1.Number of students who start training, at start of project, from Dieudonne
2.Number of students who end training, at the end of project, from Dieudonne
3.Statements from participants about what they gained, throughout the project, from the communications coordinator
4.Photographas of participants during training ,throughout the project, from a photographer
5.Statements from one of the participants Headmaster, after the project, from communications coordianator
Objective2: Provided that most schools around Musanze district have Anti Aids clubs select a club with a good song and sponsor them take it to studio.
Indicators:
• Competition between the groups
• The winner club’s song from the studio.
Evidence required, when it will be got and from whom;
1. The clubs lyrics of their songs, at competition, from Dieudonne.
2. Photographs of the clubs competing, at competition, from a photographer.
3. Statements/interviews from the clubs accompanying teacher,at competition, from the communications coordinator
Objective3: Have one story in the media (Newspaper) about the event with information about the actions of Youth Against HIV/AIDS in the training session.
Indicators:
• A published story in the newspaper about Youth Against HIV/AIDS 2011 actions in Musanze.
• The other Youth apart from our participants reads ours actions and our message.
Evidence required, when it will ge got and from whom;
1.A copy of the published Newspaper containing our story, about a week after our training sessions, from Dieudonne.
2.Quotes from the youth who reads our story in the newspaper, a week after our story has been published, from Communications Coordinator.
Baseline information: Before we start our project we will collect the statistics about the Youth who live with HIV/AIDS in Rwanda from any organization that deals with HIV/AIDS. In addition we shall collect the information about high school students’ knowledge on HIV/AIDS, how often they are taught about HIV/AIDS at school and at home. We shall collect this information from the projects participants while using the questionnaire method at the begging of the project.
Evaluation and tools technique: At the beginning of the project we shall have the participants write what they hope to gain from the training which we shall compare with the final statements about what they will have achieved from the training. In this process they will also write how they will share their new knowledge with their fellows at school.
On a daily basis we shall Get feedback from participants for them to get the most out of it, and share with others what is new to them after each lesson.
At the end of the training; make the participants form 5 groups of 7 to write about their new knowledge and achievements through the course.
After the training the Communications Coordinator will visit the one school where initiative about HIV/AIDS will have taken place to get to know how our participant are influencing their schools.
Logistical and resources consideration;
Time: Our evaluation will take place through out the life of our project and after two months of finishing training we will have written reports to major partners and funders, and the progress of our participants in raising awareness about HIV/AIDS in their schools.
Money: Our main costs will be Photographs taking and processing, communications cost between the project team members, follow up travel costs and food for the evaluation stakeholders during the 2 months of evaluation.( costs will be detailed in in the budget index.)
People: The project manager and the communications coordinator will manage the evaluation and can get assistance from the partners.
Approach to the analysis of information: At the end of the training session we shall discuss what worked well and what did not work with the participants, and from all the written reports we shall draw our conclusions about the success of the project.
Reporting and communication of outcomes/learning: within a two months period after the end of the project we shall produce evaluation reports evidenced by the participants’ statements plus the community peoples’ interviews. We shall send our written reports to our partners and funders, with recommendations about if similar projects can be done across Rwanda to better the knowledge of high school students about HIV/AIDS.
Friday, August 6, 2010
YOUTH AGAINST HIV/AIDS TEAM under my leadership
My role as a project manager is to lead my project team so that the project is successful and our smart objectives are met. Therefore i will lead my team and participate as a member of the team in the following ways;
1.Communicate the vision of our project so that everyone of the project team is made aware of the context of our project objectives as well as the project's limitations.
2.As a leader of the team i will provide my team members with the opportunities to gain the necessary skills they need to be effective in their work. Here an example of the skills is public speaking skills as raising awareness needs such skills.
3.More to that i will facilitate the project team to make the project values for our project.
4.In addition i will provide my team members with the job descriptions of their work so that they know what is expected of them. This will help me monitor them against the work plans
5.Also i will monitor the overall progress of the project and communicate it to the members of the project in times of meetings.
OUR PROJECT'S TIME LINE.(how events leads to events.)
2010 EVENTS
September to December: Presenting the project idea to the possible funders.
2011 EVENTS
by 3rd january 2011: Get the project team members, inform them of the project's aim, it's objectives and their job descriptions.
5th to 10th january: Training the project team in public speaking and how to hold official meetings etc.
25th to 30th january: Preparing invitation letters;to the students'representatives, to the district asking them for a government officer and medical personnel who will educate about HIV/AIDS, and a letter to the school where we intend to hold the event.
1st to 20th february: Completion of research about study aid materials(movies and hand outs about HIV/AIDS) that will be used at the event and getting them ready.
1st April: Sending the letters to the intended people;the students representatives, the district and the school.
25th July: Meeting the project team members, writting baseline information and the induction process.
1st August: Public speaking training for the students representatives.
2nd August: The actual event of raising awareness about HIV/AIDS.
3rd August: The competition among the clubs to get an HIV/AIDS song to spread the message about fighting against HIV/AIDS.
4th August: report to the newspaper about the actions we will have carried out.
PROJECT FINANCES MANAGEMENT.
Our project finances will be managed by the Funds Manager. The basic principle that will be used to manage funds is petty cash float where the amount that shall be consiedered as petty cash will be agreed upon by the project team.
HOW OUR VOLUNTEERS(STUDENTS' REPRESENTATIVES)WILL KNOW THE PRINCIPLES THAT AFFECT THEM.
AT the time for sending the invitations to the students' representatives we will ensure that the invitation letters are sent with handouts describing the student representatives roles and what is expected of them.
STEPS I WILL TAKE TO MONITOR EFFECTIVENESS OF THE SPECIFIC TEAM MEMBERS.
1.I will state in advance what is expected from the performance of team members by giving them their job descriptions.
2.I will anticipate what might go wrong in tasks specific people will carry out and discuss it with them in advance.
3.I will collect reports after every specific tasks, encourage the team members to report what has succeeded and what has failed in order to get ways to ensure that every task is completed successfully.
I WILL MAKE SURE THAT OUR VOLUNTEERS ARE REWARDED BY;
1. Discussing with the project team about the rewards our volunteers will be entitled to.
HOW WE SHALL KNOW IF OUR REWARDS ARE EFFECTIVE;
we shall inform our volunteers about the rewards they will get and ask them about their views on them in advance at the time of sending them invitation letters.
THE KEY AREAS OF MY PROJECT;
1. Funds manager
2. Communications Coordinator
3. Representatives cooridanator
4. Aid materials reseacher
OUR COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR JOB DESCRIPTION.
Youth Against HIV/AIDS 2011.
The Youth Against HIV/AIDS 2011 is a non profit short term project that is student lead. This project is aiming to raise awareness against HIV/AIDS amongest 35 high school students representatives in Musanze district, Nothern provice, Rwanda.
Prior to this, Youth Against HIV/AIDS 2011 is organising a one day event which wiil take place in the high school students holidays of late july to mid August 2011 in which event; 35 students representatives will be educated about the causes and effects of HIV/AIDS and way which can be used to fight against HIV/AIDS. Here activities will include guest speakers' lectures on HIV/AIDS, watching a movie about HIV/AIDS and giving out Study aid materials like DVDs and bookleets which will be taken to different schools where the students representatives come from.
Through this Youth Against HIV/AIDS 2011 hopes to raise awareness among the high school students in Musanze district.
The Communications Coordinator is responsible for delivering the information to the people that Youth Against HIV/AIDS intends it to reach to ensure that; students representatives gets the invitations and attends the event. The Communications Coordinator will ensure that the Health personnel and the government officer that will educate the students' representatives are informed and available. And will follow closely with the school admnistration where we intend the event to take place so that the permission to use the school is granted on time. The communications Coordinatior will report to the project manager after the tasks assigned.
The communications Coordinator will contribute about 4 hours a week when given responsibilities to do, because of the nature of our project( short term).
The Communications Coordianator should possess;
1.Excellent written and communications skills.
2.Excellent editing skills.
3.Leadership skills.
4.Social abilities.
1.Communicate the vision of our project so that everyone of the project team is made aware of the context of our project objectives as well as the project's limitations.
2.As a leader of the team i will provide my team members with the opportunities to gain the necessary skills they need to be effective in their work. Here an example of the skills is public speaking skills as raising awareness needs such skills.
3.More to that i will facilitate the project team to make the project values for our project.
4.In addition i will provide my team members with the job descriptions of their work so that they know what is expected of them. This will help me monitor them against the work plans
5.Also i will monitor the overall progress of the project and communicate it to the members of the project in times of meetings.
OUR PROJECT'S TIME LINE.(how events leads to events.)
2010 EVENTS
September to December: Presenting the project idea to the possible funders.
2011 EVENTS
by 3rd january 2011: Get the project team members, inform them of the project's aim, it's objectives and their job descriptions.
5th to 10th january: Training the project team in public speaking and how to hold official meetings etc.
25th to 30th january: Preparing invitation letters;to the students'representatives, to the district asking them for a government officer and medical personnel who will educate about HIV/AIDS, and a letter to the school where we intend to hold the event.
1st to 20th february: Completion of research about study aid materials(movies and hand outs about HIV/AIDS) that will be used at the event and getting them ready.
1st April: Sending the letters to the intended people;the students representatives, the district and the school.
25th July: Meeting the project team members, writting baseline information and the induction process.
1st August: Public speaking training for the students representatives.
2nd August: The actual event of raising awareness about HIV/AIDS.
3rd August: The competition among the clubs to get an HIV/AIDS song to spread the message about fighting against HIV/AIDS.
4th August: report to the newspaper about the actions we will have carried out.
PROJECT FINANCES MANAGEMENT.
Our project finances will be managed by the Funds Manager. The basic principle that will be used to manage funds is petty cash float where the amount that shall be consiedered as petty cash will be agreed upon by the project team.
HOW OUR VOLUNTEERS(STUDENTS' REPRESENTATIVES)WILL KNOW THE PRINCIPLES THAT AFFECT THEM.
AT the time for sending the invitations to the students' representatives we will ensure that the invitation letters are sent with handouts describing the student representatives roles and what is expected of them.
STEPS I WILL TAKE TO MONITOR EFFECTIVENESS OF THE SPECIFIC TEAM MEMBERS.
1.I will state in advance what is expected from the performance of team members by giving them their job descriptions.
2.I will anticipate what might go wrong in tasks specific people will carry out and discuss it with them in advance.
3.I will collect reports after every specific tasks, encourage the team members to report what has succeeded and what has failed in order to get ways to ensure that every task is completed successfully.
I WILL MAKE SURE THAT OUR VOLUNTEERS ARE REWARDED BY;
1. Discussing with the project team about the rewards our volunteers will be entitled to.
HOW WE SHALL KNOW IF OUR REWARDS ARE EFFECTIVE;
we shall inform our volunteers about the rewards they will get and ask them about their views on them in advance at the time of sending them invitation letters.
THE KEY AREAS OF MY PROJECT;
1. Funds manager
2. Communications Coordinator
3. Representatives cooridanator
4. Aid materials reseacher
OUR COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR JOB DESCRIPTION.
Youth Against HIV/AIDS 2011.
The Youth Against HIV/AIDS 2011 is a non profit short term project that is student lead. This project is aiming to raise awareness against HIV/AIDS amongest 35 high school students representatives in Musanze district, Nothern provice, Rwanda.
Prior to this, Youth Against HIV/AIDS 2011 is organising a one day event which wiil take place in the high school students holidays of late july to mid August 2011 in which event; 35 students representatives will be educated about the causes and effects of HIV/AIDS and way which can be used to fight against HIV/AIDS. Here activities will include guest speakers' lectures on HIV/AIDS, watching a movie about HIV/AIDS and giving out Study aid materials like DVDs and bookleets which will be taken to different schools where the students representatives come from.
Through this Youth Against HIV/AIDS 2011 hopes to raise awareness among the high school students in Musanze district.
The Communications Coordinator is responsible for delivering the information to the people that Youth Against HIV/AIDS intends it to reach to ensure that; students representatives gets the invitations and attends the event. The Communications Coordinator will ensure that the Health personnel and the government officer that will educate the students' representatives are informed and available. And will follow closely with the school admnistration where we intend the event to take place so that the permission to use the school is granted on time. The communications Coordinatior will report to the project manager after the tasks assigned.
The communications Coordinator will contribute about 4 hours a week when given responsibilities to do, because of the nature of our project( short term).
The Communications Coordianator should possess;
1.Excellent written and communications skills.
2.Excellent editing skills.
3.Leadership skills.
4.Social abilities.
Saturday, July 31, 2010
ON MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN MY COMMUNITY , exrcise 1b.
THE AIM OF MY PROJECT.
My project;YOUTH AGAINST HIV/AIDS, Is aimed to raise aweraness (the causes of HIV/AIDS, its grave consquences on both the individual and the country, and about the initiatives that can be taken to stop the rapid spread of HIV/AIDS like actively participating in clubs an other communal activities to fight against HIV/AIDS)among high shool students.
THE BACKGROUND SUMMARY OF MY PROJECT.
My project whose aim has been discussed above is a target to 35 high school students from different schools as representatives of the rest of the students in their schools across Musanze district. This number has been choosen with the view that the knowledge and new skills that will be got from this training will be easily spread across Musanze district by these students from differents schools.
These students of Musanze district have been targeted because they study and live in an environment vulnerable to HIV/AIDS as research has shown that where cities are growing with different commercial activities and a high population there is always a likelyhood to be acts of prostitution, drug abuse and different beliefs and attitudes among the youth which can easily lead to the high rate spread of HIV/AIDS.
THE SOCIAL LIFE OF THE TARGET GROUP(high shool students)
In Rwanda, Musanze district in particular people are friendly and even get closer to each other according to the age groups. Parents are friends and their children especialy teenagers associate much. This seeting makes it hard for parents to get time to discuss with their children issues such as HIV/AIDS and creates more of the peer pressure to the teenagers due to associating much with their agemates. In most cases this can result into sexual relationships which can even lead to contracting HIV/AIDS. More to that according to the sharing culture of the Rwandese people can share things up to sharing sharp skin piercing instruments especialy when attending to traditional practices like circumscion. All this increases the risks of young poeple like high school students to contract HIV/AIDS.
Therefore my project will meet the need for the youth in Musanze to have enough knowledge about HIV/AIDS.This project is scheduled to take place in the holidays when the students are available and will be facilitated by guest speakers like a medical personnel who will give light about causes of HIV/AIDS hence addressing the problem of ignorance about HIV/AIDS.
ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES OF THE TARGET GROUP.
The opportunities for high school students in Musanze district to get jobs is limitted. Here the jobs that are accessible to students are working in market places and shops in times of the holidays which can be got by the few lucky ones. However on the other side many of the other students do not got enough money from their parents at the time of going back to school; where this money can be used to shop fashion clothes causing high school students to become soft sexual targets for the old rich people who can get them this money they need with certain risks like getting HIV/AIDS.
OBJECTIVES OF MY PROJECT.
1. To have an one day event in 2011 high school students holidays which will gather
35 student representives from different schools in Musanze district who will be
educated about HIV/AIDS. This objective will help students from different schools
around Musanze learn about HIV/AIDS from their representatives who will have been
educated at this event. At the event there will be these activities;
- have 2 guest speakers at the event. One medical personnel and a government
officer. These two will explain the causes and effects of HIV/AIDS to a person
to the whole country in general. This will lead the students to know
through which ways HIV/AIDS is spread and how they can take initiatives to protect
themeselves and the rest against it.
- bring the new knowledge that will be acquired to daily life experiences through watching a
movie about the methods of preventing against HIV/AIDS,its causes and
consquences so as to understand it better.
- Make sure that every representative goes back with a DVD and a booklets containing clear information about HIV/AIDS. This is to make sure that also the other students who were represented get clear and accurate information they need to understand fully about HIV/AIDS.
2. Provided that most schools in Musanze district have the ANTI-AIDS clubs, select the club with a good HIV/AIDS song and sponsor them take it to a studio. This club will be selected through a competion among these clubs. This is to help spread the message about fighting against HIV/AIDS among high school students and to the rest of the people when this song will be played.
3. Have one story in the media (newspaper) so that even other high school students in other districts get the message we are trying to convey;that of fighting against HIV/AIDS.
RISKS AND CHALLENGES WHICH MIGHT BE INVOLVED.
1.As this project is about sexual health,the students may not be open to discuss on the topic and ask freely their questions.
2.There might be a risk of not getting study aid materials about HIV/AIDS like documentary movies and booklets with information about HIV/AIDS.
3.Getting a network of the people to work with as this project requires some experts like good medical personnel.
My project;YOUTH AGAINST HIV/AIDS, Is aimed to raise aweraness (the causes of HIV/AIDS, its grave consquences on both the individual and the country, and about the initiatives that can be taken to stop the rapid spread of HIV/AIDS like actively participating in clubs an other communal activities to fight against HIV/AIDS)among high shool students.
THE BACKGROUND SUMMARY OF MY PROJECT.
My project whose aim has been discussed above is a target to 35 high school students from different schools as representatives of the rest of the students in their schools across Musanze district. This number has been choosen with the view that the knowledge and new skills that will be got from this training will be easily spread across Musanze district by these students from differents schools.
These students of Musanze district have been targeted because they study and live in an environment vulnerable to HIV/AIDS as research has shown that where cities are growing with different commercial activities and a high population there is always a likelyhood to be acts of prostitution, drug abuse and different beliefs and attitudes among the youth which can easily lead to the high rate spread of HIV/AIDS.
THE SOCIAL LIFE OF THE TARGET GROUP(high shool students)
In Rwanda, Musanze district in particular people are friendly and even get closer to each other according to the age groups. Parents are friends and their children especialy teenagers associate much. This seeting makes it hard for parents to get time to discuss with their children issues such as HIV/AIDS and creates more of the peer pressure to the teenagers due to associating much with their agemates. In most cases this can result into sexual relationships which can even lead to contracting HIV/AIDS. More to that according to the sharing culture of the Rwandese people can share things up to sharing sharp skin piercing instruments especialy when attending to traditional practices like circumscion. All this increases the risks of young poeple like high school students to contract HIV/AIDS.
Therefore my project will meet the need for the youth in Musanze to have enough knowledge about HIV/AIDS.This project is scheduled to take place in the holidays when the students are available and will be facilitated by guest speakers like a medical personnel who will give light about causes of HIV/AIDS hence addressing the problem of ignorance about HIV/AIDS.
ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES OF THE TARGET GROUP.
The opportunities for high school students in Musanze district to get jobs is limitted. Here the jobs that are accessible to students are working in market places and shops in times of the holidays which can be got by the few lucky ones. However on the other side many of the other students do not got enough money from their parents at the time of going back to school; where this money can be used to shop fashion clothes causing high school students to become soft sexual targets for the old rich people who can get them this money they need with certain risks like getting HIV/AIDS.
OBJECTIVES OF MY PROJECT.
1. To have an one day event in 2011 high school students holidays which will gather
35 student representives from different schools in Musanze district who will be
educated about HIV/AIDS. This objective will help students from different schools
around Musanze learn about HIV/AIDS from their representatives who will have been
educated at this event. At the event there will be these activities;
- have 2 guest speakers at the event. One medical personnel and a government
officer. These two will explain the causes and effects of HIV/AIDS to a person
to the whole country in general. This will lead the students to know
through which ways HIV/AIDS is spread and how they can take initiatives to protect
themeselves and the rest against it.
- bring the new knowledge that will be acquired to daily life experiences through watching a
movie about the methods of preventing against HIV/AIDS,its causes and
consquences so as to understand it better.
- Make sure that every representative goes back with a DVD and a booklets containing clear information about HIV/AIDS. This is to make sure that also the other students who were represented get clear and accurate information they need to understand fully about HIV/AIDS.
2. Provided that most schools in Musanze district have the ANTI-AIDS clubs, select the club with a good HIV/AIDS song and sponsor them take it to a studio. This club will be selected through a competion among these clubs. This is to help spread the message about fighting against HIV/AIDS among high school students and to the rest of the people when this song will be played.
3. Have one story in the media (newspaper) so that even other high school students in other districts get the message we are trying to convey;that of fighting against HIV/AIDS.
RISKS AND CHALLENGES WHICH MIGHT BE INVOLVED.
1.As this project is about sexual health,the students may not be open to discuss on the topic and ask freely their questions.
2.There might be a risk of not getting study aid materials about HIV/AIDS like documentary movies and booklets with information about HIV/AIDS.
3.Getting a network of the people to work with as this project requires some experts like good medical personnel.
Monday, July 26, 2010
HIV/AIDS ISSUE UNDER TREE ANALYSIS
HIV/AIDS IS THE ISSUE AM GOING TO RAISE AWARENESS AGAINST, as a target of my project after this project management course. The tree approch towards HIV/AIDS above shows cleary the contribution of causes of HIV/AIDS to having the high population of this disease's victims. Here the tree branches are showing the consquences of HIV/AIDS in my target community.
HIV/AIDS is my tree trunk in this case. And the roots it's causes. These causes include; sharing sharp skin piercing instruments like razor blades, having unprotected sex, delivering of babies by prignant mothers at home and later resulting in breast feeding cases where it was not supposed to be leading the new born baby contracting HIV/AIDS. This is all because of ignorance about causes and effects of HIV/AIDS on both the individual and the country in general.
Then among the consquences of HIV/AIDS as illustrated by the tree(branches and leaves) we have among the others; lack of labour which has effect on the overall economy, added pressure on the health sector as a result of many infected individuals, then comes also reduction in incomes of individuals and their cut on consuming necessities like electricity and food in some in homes, then also the education sector being affected as ill teachers and orphans of HIV/AIDS misses school. Through my project (RAISING AWARENESS AGAINST HIV/AIDS) i hope to address the most contributing factor (ignorance about HIV/AIDS) where many young people in my community believe in taboos and wrong information!
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Introduction; All you need to know about me; Dieudonne.
My names are Irankunda Dieudonne, 18 years and Rwandese. I am a student currently admitted to attend the African Leadership Academy in South Africa(A-level high school)on merit due to academic achievements, leadership potential and entrepreneurial spirit.
Before i used to study at sonrise high school since 2006 where i served as a discipline prefect in the students' government in 2009, here i initiated the students'discipline committee to advise and guide fellow students out of acts like smoking and drinking alcohol in school.
In the same year i was Vice president of the anti genocide club where my role was to fight against tribal discrimination of hutu and tusti which lead to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. With the help of friends we initiated an environmental project which took care of our school environment that was being destroyed .
I represented the nothern province of Rwanda in the presidential summint meeting 2009 of East Africa after contributing my ideas in the Essay about 'how the governments of East Africa can unite to fight against HIV/AIDS.
And now here i am studying project management with hopes that it will enable me to develop the world around me through efficient projects.
Before i used to study at sonrise high school since 2006 where i served as a discipline prefect in the students' government in 2009, here i initiated the students'discipline committee to advise and guide fellow students out of acts like smoking and drinking alcohol in school.
In the same year i was Vice president of the anti genocide club where my role was to fight against tribal discrimination of hutu and tusti which lead to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. With the help of friends we initiated an environmental project which took care of our school environment that was being destroyed .
I represented the nothern province of Rwanda in the presidential summint meeting 2009 of East Africa after contributing my ideas in the Essay about 'how the governments of East Africa can unite to fight against HIV/AIDS.
And now here i am studying project management with hopes that it will enable me to develop the world around me through efficient projects.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Welcome!
Hello every one. I am currently taking the aid for smiles e-course for the next five weeks. I will be documenting my progress here on this blog. I will therefore like your comments on my work and your ideas and advice will be highly appreciated!
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