B. YouthAID Community-Based Organization (CBO) is conducting a 5 year intervention that intends to reach high-risk, out-of-school adolescent youth. The CBO plans to provide a series of educational sessions to cover basic information about HIV transmission and to teach condom use skills in the community. The intended outcome is to increase HIV knowledge and condom use. The CBO plans to use the Healthy Youth Curriculum to facilitate these sessions. It is estimated that this intervention will target 100 adolescents per quarter. i. List five types of monitoring activities ii. Students in the YouthAID program are asked to complete the Youth Risk Behavior Survey administered nationally and annually as a way of tracking their and other youths’ behaviors. What type of M&E activity is being conducted? iii. The YouthAID program manager sits in to observe the intervention and to see if the health educator is following the Healthy Youth Curriculum and also asks participants how satisfied they were with the sessions once they are completed. What type of M&E activity is being conducted?
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B. YouthAID Community-Based Organization (CBO) is conducting a 5 year
intervention that intends to reach high-risk, out-of-school adolescent youth. The
CBO plans to provide a series of educational sessions to cover basic information
about HIV transmission and to teach condom use skills in the community. The
intended outcome is to increase HIV knowledge and condom use. The CBO
plans to use the Healthy Youth Curriculum to facilitate these sessions. It is
estimated that this intervention will target 100 adolescents per quarter.
i. List five types of monitoring activities
ii. Students in the YouthAID program are asked to complete the Youth Risk
Behavior Survey administered nationally and annually as a way of tracking
their and other youths’ behaviors. What type of M&E activity is being
conducted?
iii. The YouthAID program manager sits in to observe the intervention and to see
if the health educator is following the Healthy Youth Curriculum and also asks
participants how satisfied they were with the sessions once they are
completed. What type of M&E activity is being conducted?
iv. The Ministry of Health and other partners review HIV/AIDS surveillance data
for the past three years since the program started to determine the HIV
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situation of youth in the country. What type of M&E activity are they
conducting?
v. A sample of participants in the YouthAID program are given HIV tests at the
beginning of the program and they will be tested repeatedly over a five-year
period to learn if they have seroconverted. These seroconversion rates will
be compared with those youth who are not involved with the program. What
type of M&E activity is being conducted?
vi. YouthAID staff administer a behavioral questionnaire to participants before
the intervention and 2 years after the intervention. Staff give the same
questionnaire in the same time periods to a similar group of youth who did not
receive the intervention. The results of these surveys are compared to see if
there were changes in behavior and if the two groups differed. What type of
M&E activity is being conducted?
vii. YouthAID staff keep a record of the number of youth who attend each session
as well as participants’ gender and age. Staff also keep a record of the
numbers and types of educational materials distributed to these participants.
What type of M&E activity is being conducted?
viii. YouthAID staff conduct a needs assessment to learn more about the factors
that put their population at risk for HIV. They use this information to plan their
intervention with this population. What type of M&E activity are they
conducting?
ix. YouthAID staff conduct a client focus group, but once the group is complete,
no one ever transcribes the audiotapes of the group discussion or looks at the
information that emerged from this discussion. The tapes sit in a box in the
back office. What type of M&E activity are they conducting?
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