Website: www.icrw.org
Tanzania
Positive Action has supported the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) since 2009 to run an action research project identifying how better to meet the needs of older girls within HIV prevention and care programmes.
The work builds on project partner Pact's Tanzanian Jali Watoto (Care for Children) programme: the new project focuses on one district that serves approximately 3,500 children, of which more than half are girls.
Positive Action partners with ICRW
During this project ICRW is developing and assisting Pact to implement an enhanced programme model; this is being fully assessed; the results will be used to finalise the model, which will then be promoted.
ICRW will produce a “how-to guide” for identifying and meeting the particular needs of older girls. ICRW will disseminate this and the project’s findings to donors, programmers, and policymakers, including PEPFAR and the Global Fund, to promote scale up of the enhanced model and encourage broader commitment to more effectively meet the needs of older girls within HIV programmes targeting orphans and other vulnerable children (OVC).
In 2010 ICRW launched a blog, Girl Power in Tanzania, which shares insights into this project: to learn more click here.