Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe (DREAMS) Lives Activity: FY 2016 Q3 Progress Report

John Community Centre and Kenya Girl Guide Association. The program aims to support Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) in the Pumwani Ward of Nairobi County, with a target of serving approximately 7,200 AGYW. The program focuses on providing safe spaces for AGYW to access various services, including HIV and GBV prevention, family planning, and youth-friendly services. During the third quarter of Fiscal Year 2016, Global Communities made significant efforts to strengthen relevant systems, including training health workers on post-Gender Based Violence (GBV) care and training legal service providers, parental empowerment facilitators, and Male Agents of Change (MAC) on HIV and GBV prevention and positive gender norms. The program also initiated Public Private Partnership (PPP) engagement with Alibhai Sharif, resulting in training and placement of eligible AGYW into employment opportunities. Key quantitative achievements during this reporting period include the enrollment and provision of services to 3,287 AGYW out of a quarterly target of 5,000 girls, reaching 3,932 people with intervention on GBV related to HIV out of a quarterly target of 2,500, and supporting 44 AGYW to access Youth Friendly Services (YFS) out of a quarterly target of 755. The program also mobilized 207 community stakeholders to address Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) out of a quarterly target of 80, supported 512 AGYW to receive Family Planning (FP) services out of a quarterly target of 1,795, and supported 346 AGYW to access HIV Testing Services (HTS) and receive their results out of a quarterly target of 1,521. Despite the early start of the program, the DREAMS approach and activities defined by the donor were not unveiled until six months into the grant, which has resulted in a short window to provide the full scope of services to the identified AGYW. Global Communities may need to request a cost extension of the DREAMS activity in the last quarter of FY17 to reach out to the new geographic areas and provide the services. For the subsequent quarter, Global Communities' DREAMS team will focus on completing enrollment of AGYW in additional wards, enrollment of all AGYW into the respective safe space groups, and scaling up of service provision. Key planned activities include mobilizing and sensitizing the community on the DREAMS program in the new wards of California and Eastleigh Airbase, mapping AGYW in Eastleigh Airbase wards using the girl roaster, enrolling eligible AGYW into respective safe space groups and provision of services, and training health care workers on Youth Friendly Services and post GBV care. The program will also conduct community trainings of men, boys, and parents on HIV and GBV prevention, response, gender norms, and post-violence care by trained Male Change Agents (MCAs) and Parental Facilitators, mobilize the community using the SASA model, and provide Cash Transfer (CT) and Education subsidies for eligible AGYW. Additionally, the program will train eligible AGYW on business skills development and economic empowerment, train eligible parents of AGYW on financial literacy and business skills, and train additional parental facilitators and MCAs as ToTs to serve California and Eastleigh wards.