Skills for HIV Prevention
Main activities:
Push Community Initiative (PCI)’s main activities include: identification and management of child abuse cases, school and community mobilization and awareness on child protection issues, Advocacy for policy formulation and enforcement, Research, Social support interventions that mitigate the impact of abuse on children and their families and Capacity building activities that strengthen the competences of child protection service providers, children and their families.
Main barriers to sugar daddy awareness campaigns in eastern Uganda:
Lack of awareness by adolescent girls on the risks of dating sugar daddies, lack of community engagement to address strong negative cultural and religious practices that promote early sex and marriage, inadequate facilitation to law enforcement agencies to reprimand the perpetrators, unclear messaging to address sugar daddy challenge, no competent and trained change makers/social workers on sugar daddy awareness
How to overcome the above barriers:
PCI is proposing PREPATU (Preventing Pregnancy among teenagers in Uganda) project to prevent pregnancy among 5000 adolescent girls in 70 primary and secondary schools (50 in Mbale and 20 in Jinja) districts in eastern Uganda through Sugar Daddy awareness classes on the risks of dating older men in 3months.
PCI Model Focus during the intervention: PCI model will focus on training competent female trainers to deliver clear and researched message using D-Prize materials on risks of dating sugar daddies to the adolescent girls and conducting community dialogues with cultural, religious and local leaders, head teachers and the local media to raise their awareness but also identify factors contributing to the sugar daddy challenge and possible solutions.
Impact of the sugar daddy Intervention: At National level, the project will contribute to reduction in cross generational relations in Uganda and at community level the PREPATU project will increase knowledge among 5000 adolescent girls on behavioral risks of dating sugar daddies during the pilot period which will lead to a reduction in the likelihood of pregnancy and HIV infection.
Outcome table: 3 Months pilot period.
| Number of Intervention | Category of beneficiaries | Target |
| One(Sugar daddy awareness classes) | Direct beneficiaries -Adolescent girls(10-19 years) | 5000 |
| Staff /Trainers | (12 female,3 male) | |
| Key Stakeholders(head teachers, District and community leaders and parents) | 200 | |
| Total beneficiaries | 5,215 |
Summary of proposed budget: PCI estimates to spend USD20, 000 in 3 months. The 3 major expenses are: Training and Facilitation to staff for the 3 months to conduct trainings in the 70 targeted schools (USD 9000$), video/Van hire expenses (4,861 USD) and stakeholders engagement (1666 USD).
PCI Vision: Push Community Initiative (PCI) is a company limited by guarantee whose vision is “To see Empowered and productive communities safe for children”.
PCI Team/Directors:
| Name | Title | Location during the project | Professional commitments during the project |
| Mukwana Dinah | Program Manager | Jinja District | Dinah is a primary teacher at Wakitaka Government aided school in Jinja District. She will be available to oversee at project activities in Jinja with a team of 4 staff |
| Massa Kenneth W. | Managing Director | Mbale District | Kenneth is available full time on the project as he completes his MBA research. he will be based in Mbale with a team of 8 staff |
| Massa Geofrey | Director | Kampala | Will occasionally join in management meetings |
| PREPATU project staff | Social workers | (Jinja 4,Mbale 8) | To be recruited |
URL Link for evidence on proven intervention:
www.d-prize.org/sugar-daddy
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Push Community Initiative PREPATU Project detailed Budget ,2020 in UGX |
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| Item | Qty | Frq | Cost | Total |
| Base line assessment | 1 | 1 | 2000000 | 2000000 |
| Project launch | 2 | 1 | 1000000 | 2,000,000 |
| Volunteer stipends | 8 | 30 | 20000 | 4,800,000 |
| Facilitation to staff to conduct awareness classes | 12 | 80 | 30000 | 28,800,000 |
| Gifts(assorted)for girls | 1 | 3 | 500000 | 1,500,000 |
| Monthly meetings with selected girls and trainers | 350 | 3 | 5000 | 5,250,000 |
| Stakeholder dialogue meetings | 30 | 2 | 100000 | 6,000,000 |
| Stationery and communication | 1 | 3 | 300000 | 900,000 |
| Data entry(computer and accessories) | 1 | 1 | 3000000 | 3,000,000 |
| Video/van hire | 70 | 1 | 250000 | 17,500,000 |
| Office utilities | 2 | 3 | 100000 | 600,000 |
| Contribution to office rent | 2 | 3 | 200000 | 1,200,000 |
| Communication and reporting | 1 | 3 | 500000 | 1,500,000 |
| Staff and Board meetings | 1 | 3 | 500000 | 1,500,000 |
| Grand total | 76,550,000 | |||
PCI team is optimistic that the PREPATU project will greatly contribute to her vision: “To see Empowered and productive communities safe for children” and we greatly welcome development partners to support this vision.
