Photos from Organisation for Community Empowerment - OCE's post The OCE Team has been busy attending several trainings that strengthen organisational capacity to assist health projects in Lyantonde.
During the final week of February, Gresom and Thomas attended DREAMS training. They were instructed on how to deliver the new Journeys Plus curriculum, which is a school based HIV & violence prevention program. The sessions are meant for girls aged 10-14 to become Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored, and Safe (DREAMS). OCE hopes to support the existing implementing partner for DREAMS programs in Lyantonde District to roll out the new curriculum.
Then, throughout the first week of March Thomas and Ssebudde Ibrahim went to an Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) workshop. They were trained on facilitating ‘Stepping Stones’, an HIV-prevention training program designed to improve the sexual health of adolescents through building stronger, more gender-equitable relationships and promoting better communication between partners. Additionally, they reviewed new reporting tools and practiced using the OVCMIS (Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children Management Information & Evaluation Systems) online platform.
Grassroots Soccer, DREAMS, and OVC trainings were hosted by Peace Corps Uganda, and have greatly enhanced OCE’s potential to design and implement more adolescent tailored, age-appropriate services (especially for adolescent girls and young women (AGYW)). OCE has already applied many of these new techniques into its interventions, and is in the process of expanding similar skills to other projects both in Lyantonde and other districts. ... See more