Annual Report WPF 2009

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contents

annual report

2009

Contents

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Introduction by the chairperson

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Chapter 1: Policy, objectives and strategy

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Chapter 2: Advocacy

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Chapter 3: Projects in developing countries

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Chapter 4: Project portfolio

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Chapter 5: Communication and fundraising

p. 36

Chapter 6: Human resources and organisation

p. 42

Chapter 7: Statement of responsibilities

p. 44

Chapter 8: Finances

p. 48

Chapter 9: Financial report 2009

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Special gratitude

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Credits

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... introduction

photo: Lucien Souisa

It is with great pleasure that I inform you that this is the very last annual report for the World Population Foundation (WPF).

This may sound strange, but I can reassure you: WPF may cease to exist, but its important work continues. Even more intensively and powerfully than before. By the end of 2010, we shall merge with Rutgers Nisso Groep, the Dutch Expert Centre on Sexuality.

By means of this merger we want to combine the best of both organisations. WPF has many years’ experience in developing countries and a solid reputation in the field of international advocacy. Rutgers Nisso Groep is known for its thorough research and the vast contribution it has made to sexual health in the Netherlands, which is seen as a shining example worldwide. Rutgers WPF – as the new organisation will be called – becomes an organisation that will work at improving sexual health both in the Netherlands and in developing countries.

A merger requires careful preparation. Therefore, it demanded part of management’s, board’s and staff’s attention in 2009. I would like to compliment all persons concerned on their commitment and the smooth decision process. Moreover, I’d like to thank former Executive Director Frans Baneke of whom we took leave in September. His insight, experience and commitment have done WPF a world of good!

Fortunately, these internal vicissitudes did not keep us from our real work: supporting programmes in developing countries that empower people to make their own decisions about their sexuality and whether or not to have children. This continues to be very important.

In this annual report you can read all about the work we did in 2009. It ranges from promoting the female condom to safe motherhood, from sexuality education to involving men in stopping Gender- Based Violence.

Early in 2010, the latter project actually won WPF and its partners in South Africa and Indonesia the PSO Innovation Award 2009. By the end of 2009, we were also proud of the fact that, when UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) published international guidelines for effective sexual education programmes, it mentioned our digital curriculum ‘The World Starts With Me’ as a good example.

We can only carry out all these activities thanks to the contributions made by our donors. The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs is an important mainstay in that respect. In 2009, we could also look forward to the assignment of some large projects by the European Union. In spite of the financial crisis and the vaporised assets of many funds, we still received funding

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from private donors in the Netherlands and the United States, for which we are very obliged. Early in 2010, we were really happy when the Dutch Postcode Lottery announced it would double its funding of WPF. We are likewise happy with the private donors who fund our work through MYBODY as well as with volunteers who work really hard during events like the Dam to Dam run and the Mother’s Night.

The field offices in Pakistan, Vietnam and Indonesia have developed into powerful organisations with solid local networks, collaborating both with local organisations, their governments and with Western development organisations. In other Asian and African countries we consider ourselves lucky to have long-term relationships with high-quality partners, from whom we learn a lot.

Just after the turn of the year, the Dutch Advisory Council on Government Policy (Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid) issued the (Dutch-language) report on development aid ‘Less pretence, more ambition’. Apart from including an interesting analysis the report makes a strong plea for developing and exchanging knowledge, especially in fields the Netherlands excel in. The Dutch Advisory Council on Government Policy’s report specifically names sexual and reproductive health and rights as such a field of knowledge. WPF considers this to be an acknowledgement of its experience in the international area, as a result of which southern partners like to collaborate with us due to the Dutch pragmatic approach in this field.

Therefore, I wish to state that WPF, at the moment of merging with its new partner Rutgers Nisso Groep, has an excellent staring position. In 2010 and after, there will be challenges galore. An exciting one is what the new government will bring. We hope with all our hearts that the priority that former minister Koenders gave to sexual and reproductive health and rights will also be subscribed to by the new minister for development cooperation. Whether one considers this subject important on account of the demographic consequences and economic development or on account of the unjust treatment of girls and women, people across the world are confronted with the consequences of lacking sexuality education and good reproductive healthcare. We shall continue to do our utmost to ensure that all men and women can make wellinformed choices, so that they are free to plan their families, to protect themselves against HIV and other STI’s and to be protected from violence and intimidation. That is what WPF stands for and that work I shall be pleased to support in 2010.

Melanie Schultz van Haegen Chairperson Supervisory Board

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1. policy, objectives, strategy Vision Everyone is entitled to good sexual and reproductive health. The World Population Foundation (WPF) is keen to create awareness of this among people in developing countries and to empower them to exercise influence in their own lives. The ability to make their own choices about their sexuality and family planning will make an important contribution to their personal development. But that is not all. The improvement in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR): • is vital in fighting poverty and promoting freedom, justice and security; • is essential if we want to reach the Millennium Development Goals before 2015; • is the only effective way to address concerns about too rapid population growth.

Mission The World Population Foundation intends to increase the quality of life in developing countries by improving sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Object set forth in the articles of association The object set forth in WPF’s articles of association is as follows: ‘To improve the quality of life of present and future generations by carrying out projects or causing projects to be carried out in developing countries in the field of reproductive health and by awareness-raising among policymakers, politicians and the general public with regard to stimulating the subject of population’.

In the Strategic Plan 2007-2010, the foundation’s object is more keenly defined as ‘sexual and reproductive health and rights’ rather than ‘reproductive health’. The fact that WPF focuses particularly on women and young people was added as well. WPF has no profit motive.

Starting points for policy The ICPD Programme of Action (1994) and the Millennium Development Goals The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo resulted in a revolutionary programme of action. Since 2005, this programme has been an integral part of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): ‘Access to reproductive healthcare services for everyone in 2015’ has been included as a separate target under MDG 5. WPF is carrying out the Cairo Programme of Action, starting from the human-rights approach of the United Nations, and strives to make a contribution to realising MDG 5.

Youth participation The World Population Foundation mobilises young people in all its activities and facilitates their participation. Especially for young people, SRHR are literally a matter of life and death, because they have their entire sexual lives ahead of them and must be at liberty to make choices that protect their health.

Core competencies World Population Foundation positions itself as a thematic development organisation. To that end, we strive for the most up to date knowledge and expertise in the field of SRHR. Knowledge of the Dutch situation, with good results worldwide, constitutes a credible basis, but not the only one. Through our work in other countries, we learn from the situations there and are progressively able to act as a broker of knowledge and expertise. WPF applies itself especially to developing sexuality education programmes.

WPF maintains excellent relations with, among others, the Dutch government and key donors in the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights. The realisation that good sexual and reproductive health is a prerequisite to fighting poverty worldwide is gaining ground internationally. Consequently, the demand for our expertise increases.

However the capacity available within our current organisation falls short of this demand and governments and donors fail to provide the funding necessary to meet this demand.

Sustainability and effectiveness WPF always cooperates with local partner organisations and, if possible, with local governments in developing countries. For projects and activities to be really sustainable and effective, they must be ‘owned’ by the local partners. WPF offers finances, expertise and services to local organisations for carrying out projects or for (local) advocacy activities. The partners ultimately decide what is needed and how projects are carried out.

Collaborative links Combining its strengths with likeminded development organisations is a WPF policy priority. On the one hand, this is realised through concerted action in advocacy activities, on the other hand by contributing its expertise to their development projects. In this way, WPF is able to increase its reach considerably.

Building the support base In the Netherlands, WPF wants to help build the support base for development cooperation and, in particular, to bring the importance of sexual and reproductive health and rights to the attention of a broad public. We are doing this under the MYBODY campaign label with its accompanying slogan, My Life, My Choice, MYBODY.

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Solution strategies WPF is working at the improvement of SRHR by means of advocacy, immediate poverty alleviation, and building the capacity of civil society in developing countries. We apply methods that have proven successful in the fields of sexuality education, safe motherhood and reduction of Gender-Based Violence. Together with our partners in developing countries, we adapt these methods to local languages and cultures.

WPF uses the ‘Intervention Mapping’ model to thoroughly set up and document programmes. We deliberately keep our method for sexuality education moderately progressive, since we start from human rights and aim for complete information. As long as we are introducing our school pack in a small number of schools, this creates few problems: at community level, the problems we identify are common and effective solutions are welcome. However, as soon as we take steps towards a national curriculum, the call to adapt the teaching material to official local norms and values (such as ‘no sex before marriage’) becomes louder. Under these circumstances, compromise on the part of the partners and the World Population Foundation is inevitable, but our aim remains to uphold the principles: to provide young people with complete information so that they can make their own choices.

Finances The fundraising policy of WPF focuses on acquiring subsidies from governments and multilateral organisations and funding from charitable foundations both in the Netherlands and elsewhere. Increasingly, WPF receives fees for the involvement of its specialists in third-party projects.

Furthermore, the MYBODY label has been developed to attract donors and raise funds through campaigns for the benefit of the foundation’s projects. The acquisition policy aims to diversify the sources of funding and to achieve funding continuity.

Opportunities and threats Opportunities The election of Obama as the US president in 2008 has immediately had a huge, and in our view very positive, effect on the international debate.

This reveals the sensitivity of our work to political risks. This time, it obviously works out well. Obama has abolished the ideologically inspired restrictions for American development aid – for example limiting sexuality education to abstinence, and not being allowed to help sex workers.

These restrictions impeded the effectiveness of large flows of aid considerably. Likewise, he has reinstituted the American contribution to the UN Population Fund, which had been withheld for eight years. This policy exerts a massive influence on multilateral institutions and local governments.

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Threats Economic depression The worldwide economic depression has had vast consequences for our target groups in developing countries, and for some providers of funding as well, as, unfortunately, the field experienced in 2009. We hope that pressure on the Dutch development budget can be resisted, but the prospect of new elections in June 2010 does not encourage optimism.

We actively advocate the maintenance and further strengthening of the priority for MDG 5 and sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Taboos Work on SRHR is structurally impeded by taboos, rigid traditions and strong moral views. Funding is scarce for interventions that ‘call a spade a spade’ (i.e. sex) and that confront reality (unsafe abortion, homosexuality, sex workers, etcetera). Neither do developing countries often request funds from donor countries for these aspects, even though there appears to be great need for knowledge and information on these subjects.

Occasionally, this makes it difficult to bring this theme to the public’s attention without being charged of ‘importing immorality from the West, and/or the Netherlands’.

Political unrest In 2009, we were confronted with political unrest in Pakistan. In one of our working areas in Pakistan – the SWAT valley– it was nearly impossible for our Pakistani partners to carry out any activities.

Plans for 2010 and beyond Merger WPF and Rutgers Nisso Groep In 2009, the decision was taken to merge with Rutgers Nisso Groep.

The new combination can develop into an even stronger player in the field of sexual and reproductive healthcare, both in the Netherlands and internationally. Both organisations are specialised in sexual and reproductive health and apply a rights based approach, and both organisations are carrying out programmes in developing countries. Moreover, the organisations have cooperated on specific projects for many years. The actual merger will take place at the end of 2010. Leading up to that, the organisations are working closely together. Preparing for and implementing the merger resulted in additional costs in 2009. Further extra costs are to be expected for 2010. However, in the long run the merger should result in slight cost savings.

Renewal long-range strategy The intention to merge also has consequences for the renewal of the long-range strategy for the period following the current Strategic Plan 2007-2010. In 2008, consultations took place with key groups of stakeholders: managers, young people, and included a two-day consultation in the Netherlands of representatives of field offices, partner organisations and local authorities. In view of the intended merger, WPF decided not

WPF to write a new strategic plan by itself. The strategic starting points for the combination of WPF and Rutgers Nisso Groep were formulated in 2009 and discussed with staff and the Board/Supervisory board. In 2011, the strategic starting points of the merged organisation Rutgers WPF will be implemented in a long-range plan.

Intensifying cooperation with other organisations WPF and Rutgers Nisso Groep are working closely together in formulating a new proposal for what is known as the MFS subsidy provided by the Dutch government for the period 2011 – 2015. As soon as the Dutch minister for development cooperation had proclaimed the subsidy framework, cooperation with other organisations was sought in order to form an alliance. This resulted in the founding of the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) Alliance, which submitted its proposal for the first phase of the procedure, titled ‘Unite for Body Rights’, to the ministry at the end of November 2009. WPF is the lead agency of this alliance.

Apart from Rutgers Nisso Groep, AMREF, Simavi, dance4life international and youth organisation CHOICE participate in this alliance. Furthermore, agreements have been made with a number of co-financing organisations (CFOs) for collaboration between programmes.

In line with the course chosen before, we are always looking for opportunities to collaborate with other development organisations that are willing to focus on the improvement of sexual and reproductive health and rights, both in the Netherlands and in developing countries.

Long-range targets The long-range targets up to 2010 and the progress made in 2009 are presented in the chapters Advocacy, Projects in developing countries and Communication and fundraising. By the end of 2009, 75 percent of the intended results up to 2010 must be realised. In 2009, we worked hard to execute the first major evaluation of our sexuality education method. We performed this evaluation in four countries, with the assistance of three Dutch universities. The result is due in the spring of 2010.

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2. advocacy

objectives and strategy In the current Strategic Plan 2007-2010, the World Population Foundation (WPF) has given prominence to its advocacy role, in order to make sexual and reproductive health and rights a topic for discussion and keep it on the agenda. The World Population Foundation wants to create and build support for the Cairo Programme of Action and for the Millennium Development Goals on four levels: in the Netherlands, in Europe, internationally and in the African and Asian countries where WPF works. We are realising this through a policy dialogue with politicians and authorities, through networks and platforms, by organising campaigns and by increasing the support base for this theme. In addition, we are building the advocacy capacity of our partner organisations in Africa and Asia.

Intended results In the 2007-2010 period, WPF is striving for the following results: • Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) continue to be a priority in Dutch development cooperation policy and become a higher priority in the development cooperation programme of the European Union; • The Dutch government and the European Union increase their financial support for SRHR; • In developing countries more money is made available for SRHR and a more favourable policy gains ground, particularly in those countries where the World Population Foundation works.

Activities and results in 2009 In the Netherlands The Dutch government remains committed to SRHR. Dutch official development assistance (ODA) for SRHR amounted to € 161.8 million in 2008. The Netherlands remained the top donor of UNFPA and one of the top donors of UNAIDS, Global Fund and UNDP. Although the 0.8% mark is still upheld in The Netherlands, due to the lower GDP, the absolute amount for ODA is less compared to previous years. Despite the decline in the absolute amount, and the necessity to cut down on the budget, the budget line for reproductive health 2010 remained almost the same as in 2009. Even in times of economic crisis, The Netherlands is keeping up its commitments to SRHR.

ICPD@15 In 2009, the theme for the Commission on Population and Development (CPD) was the contribution that the ICPD Programme of Action made to the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals. Apart from the submission of two written statements, 8 wpf

WPF was actively involved both at national and at international level to develop advocacy messages and it addressed the Commission with a statement on the rights-based approach to prevention. The final resolution does mention comprehensive sexuality education.

Together with Share-Net, the Dutch NGO network on SRHR and HIV/AIDS, WPF organised a seminar on the important role SRHR plays in achieving the MDGs. Participants worked on recommendations on how sexual rights contribute to achieving the MDGs. These recommendations were disseminated at the conference ‘Global Partners in Action: NGO Forum on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Development’ in Berlin, which was organised within the framework of the 15th anniversary of the ICPD programme of Action (Cairo 1994).

In Berlin, at the Global NGO Forum, WPF joined the 400 participants from over 130 countries across the world, including 100 youth participants.

Here the SRHR movement formulated the Berlin Call to Action and discussed the Strategic Options for NGOs, the so-called SONGS. Both are helpful in guiding our efforts to further implement the ICPD Programme of Action.

Millennium Development Goal 5 Over 350 people attended the national Mother’s Night event in Rotterdam which focussed on teenage pregnancy worldwide (see Chapter 5). Apart from the national event, seven regional Mother’s Night activities were organised in the Netherlands as well as events in a number of European countries, including Germany, Malta and Hungary.

The conservative World Congress on Families, with American anti-abortion, anti-homosexuality and anti-women’s rights organisations as driving forces behind it, was held on 10-12 August in Amsterdam. WPF collaborated with CHOICE and two American partners to minimise the impact and effectiveness of the congress in advance of the event, and several prominent speakers withdrew because of the questionable ideas of these American NGOs. Questions were asked in Parliament and the speech of Minister for Youth and Families André Rouvoet was rather neutral. WPF also participated in the congress itself, in order to monitor and report on developments. The congress only attracted some 400 participants, rather than the thousands anticipated. All activities resulted in a lot of media outreach.

The Dutch government and UNFPA organised and chaired the High Level Meeting on MDG5 in Addis Ababa. WPF was the only Dutch NGO invited to attend this important meeting. The outcome statement has three main messages: (1) family planning is one of the most cost-effective interventions, (2) make adolescents and youth a priority and (3) strengthen health systems with SRHR as a priority.

Population The Advisory Council on International Affairs issued a report on demographic changes and development that reflects the input provided by WPF, and recommends among others to position demographic changes as a global issue and to support SRHR even more, as it is catalysing social and economic development.

In collaboration with the Society for International Development (SID) and the Institute for Social Studies (ISS), WPF organised six lectures about population and development (see Chapter 5).

WPF organised the launch of the State of World Population report Facing a changing world: women, population and climate. A press conference was organised in the government news centre. Minister Koenders received the first copy from Mrs. Mane, Deputy Executive Director of UNFPA, and gave a heartening speech about the importance of this year’s topic.

In Europe The EU has become the biggest donor of population assistance worldwide. However, the budget increase has gone almost entirely to funding for HIV/AIDS. This has resulted in increased access to antiretroviral drugs (ARVs). Unfortunately, the budget for prevention in the sense of sexuality education, family planning and reproductive healthcare has gone down.

These were some of the outcomes as presented in ‘Euromapping 2009’, which is mapping European development aid and population assistance.

WPF presented these findings both to other development NGOs in the Netherlands and to the Parliamentary Commission on Foreign Affairs.

In 2009, elections took place for the European Parliament, followed by the formation of a new European Commission.

Sexiest MEP campaign WPF and Rutgers Nisso Group organised the election of the sexiest Dutch candidate for the EU Parliamentary elections. Candidates were asked to fill in a questionnaire on their points of view in relation to SRHR, young people and health. Judith Sargentini of the Greens, won the election and a ‘sexy’ photo shoot.

EuroNGOs WPF is the lead agency for the Small Grants Facility of EuroNGOs, the European network of SRHR NGOs which awarded ten sub-grants in nine countries, enabled six publications in five countries, organised six workshops and two tailor made trainings.

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positive impact on public health is therefore substantial, but it is not widely available for an affordable price yet.

Therefore, WPF, Oxfam Novib, i+solutions and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs initiated the ‘Universal Access to Female Condoms (UAFC) Joint Programme’.

2009 has been a year in which the UAFC Joint Programme has become a strong active campaign involving many organisations, professionals and networks, with a strong corporate identity and evidence-based messages.

A major event in 2009 was the international platform meeting where more than forty professionals have committed themselves to advocacy for female condoms and female condom programming. The diverse membership and active involvement promises a broad outreach in the years to come. Examples are meetings with the head of the American HIV/AIDS policy; activists from African countries and the main United Nations agencies.

Advocacy by field offices and partners Advocacy capacity building trainings were given at the WPF field offices in Pakistan, Vietnam and Indonesia for staff as well as partner organisations, including youth organisations. These trainings were followed up by finalising advocacy strategy papers and implementing activities.

World Population Foundation Pakistan WPF Pakistan and UNICEF advocated successfully for the inclusion of life skills based education in the national youth and education policy.

The organisation of the Mother’s Week enabled WPF Pakistan to build a coalition of government officials, other NGOs and media to advocate for the resolution on maternal mortality, which was negotiated in the Human Rights Council in Geneva. The delegation of Pakistan heading the Organisation of Islamic Countries (one of the negotiating blocks) became more and more moderate, as a result of the advocacy work done back home, and in the end the resolution was adopted.

World Population Foundation Vietnam WPF Vietnam contributed to the formulation of the new Population and Reproductive Health Strategy of the Vietnamese government. However, the policy has not yet been adopted.

World Population Foundation Indonesia In support of the sexuality education programme, advocacy activities were organised in most project sites, to convince district governments to include sexuality education in the local content section of the high school curriculum. The sexuality education programme in juvenile prisons receives financial support from the Indonesian Ministry of Justice.

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Participation of young people CHOICE CHOICE, for youth and sexuality is a youth-led organisation that stands up for the rights of young people worldwide to make their own choices regarding their sexuality and having children. CHOICE advocates on a national and international level and builds the capacity of youth organisations worldwide, with a focus on developing countries. WPF supports CHOICE with organisational facilities and financial support. This fits our policy to promote youth participation.

In 2009, youth advocates from CHOICE participated in international conferences, such as the UN Commission on Population and Development in New York (see box), the global NGO forum on ICPD@15 in Berlin and the IGLYO Youth Conference in Amsterdam. In cooperation with the Youth Coalition, CHOICE developed a youth guide on how to set up sustainable youth-led advocacy organisations on SRHR. CHOICE conducted trainings in Malawi and Vietnam in 2009 and facilitated ‘High Level’ Advocacy events in South Africa and Malawi.

The objective is to build the capacity of youth and youth organisations in developing countries, so that they can advocate for the sexual and reproductive health and rights of young people in their own context.

Youth advocates in Malawi wrote an advocacy statement including messages on Gender Based Violence and Early Forced Marriages and presented this to the Minister of Youth, Development and Sports. Youth advocates in South Africa focused their recommendations on training of health workers and inclusion of sexual orientation in life skills curriculums.

CHOICE also supported capacity building activities at an international level by YouAct and the Youth Coalition, such as regional workshops on ICPD+15.

In the Netherlands, CHOICE has been active in conducting various workshops and organising a national youth debate ‘Sex, Saints and Schools’, in cooperation with PANN foundation. The debate was visited by more than 150 young people and policymakers. CHOICE and PANN decided to turn this national youth debate into an annual event. Moreover, CHOICE has been active in supporting and coaching high school students in organising HIV/AIDS campaigns at their schools. This project is a joint initiative of CHOICE and Positive Guest Speakers, in cooperation with the World AIDS Campaign.

Within the internal organisation, CHOICE inaugurated a new board in September 2009 and the office staff was expanded with several international interns.

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YouAct YouAct is a European network of young people who are active in the field of Sexual and Reproductive Rights, established in 2003 and supported

by WPF ever since. In 2009, YouAct conducted trainings of young people with participants from UK, Cyprus, Ireland, Latvia and Lithuania. The project, called ‘Youth Advocates in Action’, was supported by the Summit Foundation and was aimed at training young people on developing advocacy messages and plans, aimed at candidate MEPs in the European elections of 2009. The follow-up activities of the project also included an ‘Online Action Day’ where young people from across Europe signed up to a Joint European Statement, meetings with MEPs in Cyprus, UK and Brussels and the involvement of young people in high level meetings with European delegates in Brussels and Addis Ababa.

NO YOUTH NO CHANGE in New York CHOICE advocates Sara Coumans (20) and Marina Lacroix (24) travelled to New York to attend the UN Commission on Population and Development (CPD) where government delegations discussed how the Program of Action of the ICPD can contribute to the realisation of the Millennium Development Goals. Together with other youth advocates they formed a progressive youth caucus, which adopted the CHOICE Campaign NO YOUTH NO CHANGE. This title was used for oral and written statements, on copies of Watchdog and on T-shirts. On behalf of the youth caucus, Sara presented an oral statement addressing the importance of comprehensive sexuality education, access to effective family planning services and safe abortion for young people and young people’s right to be meaningfully involved in policies that affect their lives. In the Netherlands, Sara and Marina kept everyone updated through blogs on OneWorld, on the UN youth site and on Twitter, which evoked a lot of reactions and received abundant attention.

Although the final CPD resolution does not contain the term ‘Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights’, it did adopt more progressive language and paragraphs on young people, thanks to the contribution of many advocates like Sara and Marina. Young people are the future and the present, NO YOUTH NO CHANGE!

Marina and Sara

Audience at the ‘Sex, Saints and Schools’ debate organised by CHOICE and PANN.

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Universal Access to the Female Condom Joint Programme 1

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photo: Robert Bodegraven

photo: Guus Schoonewille

• 1 Three sorts of female condoms on display as well as other materials of the ‘Universal Access to the Female Condom Joint Programme’ • 2 At the market in Lagos, Nigeria, Amaka Nneji demostrated how to use a Female Condom • 3 Bishop Jolly Oyekpen, of the Akoko Edo Diocese of the Anglican Communion in Nigeria is a real advocate for the female condom to the people in his parish

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photo: Annet Neijmeijer Minister Koenders glanced through the ‘State of the World Population’ 2009

Participants of the advocacy training in Indonesia

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3. projects in developing countries Introduction The World Population Foundation (WPF) enables vulnerable groups to make their own choices regarding their sexual and reproductive health (SRH) by providing knowledge, encouraging them to form their own opinions and teaching them skills. Young people and women are the main target groups of WPF projects. WPF does not work directly with these target groups, but indirectly through partner organisations in developing countries. The local partners make sure that activities are consistent with the social, cultural and religious contexts of the country in question and that a project meets local needs. WPF is working towards 90 percent of its partners being able to carry out projects effectively by the end of 2010.

Currently, WPF and its partner organisations are executing interventions in eight countries: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Africa, Pakistan, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam. Moreover, WPF has its own field offices in Pakistan, Indonesia and Vietnam. To show appreciation for its contribution to population issues and capacity building within the government, the field office of WPF Pakistan was conferred a Population Day Award 2009 by the prime minister of Pakistan.

In 2009, WPF supported over 44 projects in Asia and Africa. The total budget available for projects in 2009 amounted to € 3,346,278.

WPF’s interventions can be classified into a number of programmes (subsectors). The main results are presented per programme below.

The complete list of the projects and the results per project can be found in the next chapter.

Subsector 1: Sexuality education The situation in brief At present, half of all the people on earth are under 25: About 85 percent of this group live in developing countries.

Many societies feel that sexuality education for young people is inappropriate. This has vast consequences for young people’s health, for their own development and course of life, and ultimately for society as a whole. After all, most young people are sexually active before their twentieth birthday, but before that age they have limited or no access to education, services and contraception (including condoms).

Objectives and strategy WPF and its partner organisations are developing rights and evidencebased school packs for relational and sexuality education. These packages 14 wpf

provide young people in all age brackets – from kindergarten to universities – with age-appropriate, culturally relevant and scientifically accurate information. The aim is that 50 percent of the half a million people who round off a school pack are more knowledgeable about safe sex, that 40 percent of the young people change their attitudes in a positive way and that 10 percent actually behave in a safe manner.

Activities and results in 2009 In the past few years, WPF developed school packs for school going youths in nearly all age brackets (ranging from pre-schoolers to university students). Also, specific school packs have been developed for youths who are hard of hearing (Vietnam and Indonesia), youths who are sight impaired (Indonesia), HIV+ (infected through their mothers) youth (Uganda) and young offenders in custodial institutions in Indonesia and Vietnam. In 2009, over 670,000 youths attending more than 3,240 schools in Uganda, Kenya, South Africa, Vietnam, Pakistan, Indonesia and Thailand completed one of the sexuality education programmes. The long-term purpose of these interventions is integrating relational and sexuality education in the national curriculums, so that all school going youths are reached.

Measuring impact In 2008/2009, an internal evaluation of the sexuality education programme The World Starts With Me (WSWM), was conducted in Uganda, Kenya, Thailand and Indonesia. Over 2,000 youths participated in this evaluation. Even though the definitive results of the evaluation will not be published until May 2010, we can include the first findings in this annual report.

Statistically, the pupils attending WSWM scored significantly higher on a number of characteristics influencing sexual behaviour – such as knowledge about pregnancy – than a control group that received no (or different) sexuality education. Furthermore, WSWM pupils are convinced that young people must be able to decide for themselves with whom and when they wish to be sexually active and that it is not impossible to use a condom. They have the intention to postpone a first sexual contact and they stand up for themselves in high-risk situations.

The process evaluation shows that both teachers and pupils are highly satisfied with the programme. The main reason to refrain from teaching or attending a certain lesson is lack of time. In most schools, sexuality education is an optional subject that is often taught outside regular school hours, thus, usually at moments when teachers and pupils are tired or have other activities planned.

Teachers and pupils are generally satisfied about the contents. They would like some subjects to be added to the programme. Likewise, the respondents make suggestions to treat certain subjects differently.

The main lesson WPF has learnt from the process evaluation regards improving the implementation of the programme of lessons.

Suggestions that the evaluation has brought to the fore are, among others: intensifying the training of the teachers, especially regarding the so-called sensitive subjects (use of condoms, homosexuality, abortion, etcetera), developing good alternatives for schools where IT facilities as yet fall short, such as readers and hand-outs for the pupils, and using more attractive teaching methods.

Main milestones in 2009 per country In Kenya, the WSWM programme was extended from 95 to 112 schools spread across Nairobi, Nyanza, Central and Coast provinces. Moreover, other collaborative links (among others with AMREF in the nomadic south of Kenya) made it possible to extend the programme in areas where our partner organisation CSA had not been active before.

WSWM was implemented on 147 schools across Uganda. Teachers and pupils who have questions can contact the WSWM online support centre: www.schoolnetuganda.sc.ug/wswmonlinesupport. In view of the sustainability of the programme, participating schools contribute more and more towards the costs (travelling expenses made for workshops by head masters, teachers and peer educators as well as purchasing costs of WSWM working materials).

In the west of Uganda, Kyambogo University and Save the Children/ Uganda conducted research on sexuality among children of 9 to 14 years of age. On the basis of the results of this research learning goals have been developed for 9 to 11 and 12 to 14 year-olds. The learning goals constitute the starting point for modifications of WSWM for these age brackets.

The federal government of Pakistan approved both the national education and the national youth policy plans. This is good news for WPF, since both policy plans explicitly refer to the importance of life skills based education (LSBE), something which has long been stressed by, among others, WPF, UNICEF, UNFPA and partner organisations. Moreover, a new component was added to the LSBE programme: leadership and economic empowerment of girls.

The ‘Always Agahi Programme’ consists of a school pack that aims to acquaint young girls with good health and hygiene and teaches them to deal with the pressure and expectations from their environment.

The programme was launched in 2003 and is currently implemented in thousands of public and private schools in Pakistan. Since 2003, over 4 million girls have completed the school pack. The programme is funded by Proctor & Gamble and given technical support by WPF and the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Pakistan (SOGP).

In Vietnam, WSWM was modified for students of educational theory at the DaNang University of Education. As from the academic year 2009-2010, the school pack will be taught to students of the Biology, Geography and Political Science faculties at this university. Furthermore, the school pack has been modified for use at Vietnamese secondary schools.

For the past five years, Stellenbosch University – WPF’s local partner organisation – and nine other South African organisations, have participated in a Joint Learning Project in collaboration with Stop Aids Now!.

The project is aimed at supporting children and their families in the scope of HIV/AIDS. In this context, ‘Stellenbosch’ experimented with parent participation, among other things. The experiences have been recorded in a workshop manual and DVD. WPF hopes it can use these experiences elsewhere to support other sexuality education programmes.

In June, the Director General Correction (Ministry of Justice and Human Rights) of Indonesia formally launched the school pack SERU! (=Sumber Edukasi Masa Remajaku); which has been especially developed for young offenders in Indonesia. It is expected that, with the support of the ministry, the school pack can be introduced in more custodial institutions.

Moreover, in August, the You and Me Programme was officially launched by the Minister of Women Empowerment and the director-general of Management Basic and Elementary Education of the national Ministry of Education. This is a social life skills school pack for children (4-6 years) in day nurseries.

Subsector 2: Gender-Based Violence The situation in brief Worldwide, one in three women has been subjected to violence at some time, forced to perform sexual acts or abused in some other way. In most cases, they have been assaulted by a man, often a family member or an acquaintance. The violent behaviour shown by these men often reflects the way in which they think about women.

Objectives and strategy For the past nine years, WPF has been involved in projects to reduce Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and to support survivors of violence. We are most active on this front in South Africa and Indonesia. Apart from offering direct assistance to the survivors of violence, WPF has worked with a number of South African and Indonesian partners to develop an intervention aimed at counselling the perpetrators of intimate partner violence.

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Activities and results in 2009 Whereas programmes promoting the use of contraceptives were quick to recognise the decisive role of men, in the past decades, Gender-Based Violence (GBV) interventions have focused almost exclusively on women, in isolation from the broader context. Obviously, a specifically female approach was and still is legitimate in many cases. Since women who have left their husbands are stigmatised, most survivors of intimate partner violence end up staying with their violent partners. Therefore, abused women suggest that intimate partner violence will not end as long as the interventions are only focused on the survivors, and they explicitly ask aid organisations to support their partners as well.

Worldwide, too, there is a growing awareness of the fact that GBV projects must focus on men. In South Africa, for instance, more and more perpetrators are willing to tackle their problems. Men are the products of a system that emphasises male aggression and leaves no room for vulnerability.

Many men perceive the area of tension between this traditional male role and a new one. In this view, intimate partner violence is seen as the ultimate expression of this frustration.

The partner NGOs involved in the project Rifka Annisa (Yogyakarta); Cahaya Perempuan Women’s Crisis Centre (Bengkulu, Indonesia) and Mosaic Training, Service and Healing Centre (Cape Town, South Africa) identified counselling of men in the context of violence against an intimate partner as a promising intervention or promising practice. However, the decision to work with men often confronts a feminist women’s organisation with a number of serious challenges: • How dedicated must one be to execute interventions for men in a country where four to six women a day are killed by their husbands?

• Is a women’s organisation capable of working with men, if they are known as an organisation offering assistance to survivors of violence from a feminist perspective?

• Working with men has implications for the mission, image, human resources policy, target groups, etcetera. How far can one go without harming the objective of supporting women?

• Female social workers can easily relate to the position of the survivors of violence, since they have experienced violence personally. Counselling men demands a neutral and open-minded point of view.

• Male social workers are in great demand, but hard to find.

• Do perpetrators who find their way to women’s organisations feel sufficiently safe, or must one work towards separate locations?

Thus, supporting male partners implies that women’s organisations must face these crucial institutional and organisational aspects of the new, innovative method, in order to create the right conditions for effective support to men. In this respect, some thought must be given to revision of the human resources policy, a renewed perspective on capacity building, entering into new alliances with men’s organisations, developing broader community interventions for/with men in the scope of awareness-raising, etcetera.

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In 2009, work has focused mainly on the further development of the teaching materials (counselling and training manuals), and a total of 25 social workers (16 men and 9 women) were trained for male counselling, both in Indonesia and South Africa. After intensive training, female social workers turn out to be quite able to counsel male clients, in spite of their own past experiences of violence. For appropriate counselling of perpetrators social workers’ competences appear to be more important than their sex. Following the training course, testing the counselling sessions was started.

Also during 2009, contact was sought with the growing worldwide men’s movement that centres on an increasing dissatisfaction about the ways manliness has been defined in various cultures. This so-called men’s engagement movement aims at greater equality between men and women and at improved sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) for all, including putting an end to domestic violence. Participation in the symposium ‘Engaging men and boys’ in March 2009 gave a strong impulse to entering into new relationships, towards which WPF’s partner organisations both in South Africa and in Indonesia later became a driving force. By the end of 2009, this course of action caused PSO to nominate WPF for having an innovative approach to tackling domestic violence, taking into a account the organisational and institutional change. The award will be conferred early in 2010.

Indonesia Rifka Annisa and WCC Bengkulu supported over 1,000 women who were survivors of domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment and trafficking.

Both partner organisations continuously improve their services to survivors by working closely with the police, the judiciary, lawyers and regular healthcare. Furthermore, they spread information about countering Gender-Based Violence to nearly 40,000 persons through training activities, radio programmes and other local media.

South Africa In 2009, Mosaic, the Women’s Crisis and Health Centre in Cape Town, provided training courses for other organisations and government services, and advocated effective implementation of the liberal South African abortion legislation. It also ran a pilot project in which perpetrators of violence received professional counselling for three months and made preparations for the establishment of a second centre in order to improve access to SRH services in the townships, particularly for young people. In 2009, five support groups for women survivors of violence were started.

Pakistan Thanks to support by the World Bank, WPF Pakistan implemented a project aimed at capacity building of six partner organisations and sixty community-based organisations (CBOs) in the fields of Gender-Based Violence and reproductive health. The project was run in the six districts evincing the highest prevalence of Gender-Based Violence in Pakistan.

A number of practical tools were developed and the experiences with

the project have been recorded in a short documentary. After the project, the participating organisations decided to work together in a formalised network structure.

Subsector 3: Access to services, including safe motherhood The situation in brief Maternal mortality is an important indicator of healthcare quality and as such shows a sharp contrast between developed and developing countries. It is estimated that every year 529,000 women die from pregnancy-related causes. Some 30% to 40% of child mortality can be attributed to inadequate care during pregnancy or birth.

Objectives and strategy In view of this situation, between 2007 and 2010, the World Population Foundation is concentrating more explicitly on safe motherhood, in the first instance in Tanzania. Together with Family Care International (FCI), an American organisation, we want to convince local government bodies in the Tabora region that they must include skilled care during childbirth in their policy plans and budget.

Activities and results 2009 In accordance with the project plan, skilled care strategies were included in last year’s budgets and plans for five districts. FCI trained district health committees using a method aimed at improving the quality of care and focused on the client (Client Oriented Provider Efficient, or COPE), resulting in action plans in collaboration with staffs and communities.

Healthcare management teams at district level were trained in improving maternal care management.

At national level, the project managed to mainstream specific obstetric competencies in national guidelines that have by now been translated into Swahili. Distribution of these guidelines to the district healthcare offices will take place in 2010.

After WPF had decided to withdraw from the project at the end of 2008, since the preventive aspects of safe motherhood were not paid sufficient attention, financial reasons compelled FCI to decide to end the project after 2010.

Subsector 4: Mainstreaming of SRHR in other types of development projects Objectives and strategy As a relatively small organisation, WPF aims to achieve the broad propagation of SRHR by participating in the development projects of other, non-SRHR organisations.

Practically, this means that WPF contributes its specific know-how and experience in the field of SRH, for instance to education programmes.

In this manner, our limited human and financial resources potentially have a comparatively greater reach.

Activities and results in 2009 In the context of the SHAREFRAME project, WPF collaborates with Educaids, an alliance of Christian organisations in the Netherlands working in the field of education and HIV/AIDS, and their partner organisations in Uganda and Kenya. This collaboration aims to enable the local partners to set up sexuality education programmes that are consistent with the actual situation in which young people find themselves. The main conclusions from an initial needs assessment are that young people become sexually active at an early age and are often confronted with the negative consequences of sexuality, such as sexual harassment, unwanted pregnancy and abortion. On the basis of these findings, various organisations have modified their SRHR policy, while the entire network developed a framework for future SRHR interventions.

In 2008, WPF entered into a cooperation agreement with Oxfam Novib and its Ugandan education and HIV/AIDS partners under the name UNESEM: the Uganda Network on Sexuality Education. The approach is similar to an earlier WPF project, the so-called MAIN PHASE network in India. A major milestone was the joint formulation of the UNESEM framework that is leading for all future SRHR interventions by the UNESEM members. The framework was based on the results of an assessment of the needs of all members’ specific target groups with regard to SRHR. The starting points of the framework are, among others: youth participation in decision-making; no discrimination on the basis of provenance, sex, social status and religion; the ABCD+ approach (this is short for: Abstinence, Be faithful, use Condoms, Delay sexual debut, and voluntary HIV/AIDS Testing); a rights-based approach; and referral to healthcare. All UNESEM members, as well as the network as a whole, have developed pilot interventions for 2010. These are funded by Oxfam Novib.

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of young people in western Kenya. Sexuality education of school going and non-school going youths has been designated as the most important intervention strategy, while involving the community, advocating and implementing good government policy and improving the access to youth-friendly health services are supporting strategies.

capacity building wpf supports local partner organisations financially and by means of capacity building through training courses, substantive guidance and broader organisational guidance. wpf clearly sees a role for itself as well as a responsibility in strengthening the internal and external organisation of partners and thus making a contribution to strengthening civil society at large.

Since 2008, wpf has been a member of pSO, an association of fifty Dutch development organisations. pSO supports its members in building the capacity of their Southern partner organisations, both through knowledge sharing and funding. In 2009, the world population foundation developed its so-called individual ’learning trajectory’ for the upcoming years. In this learning trajectory, wpf aims to answer the question what, for a thematic organisation like itself, is the right balance between technical support in SRHR on the one hand and support in capacity development or organisational and institutional development on the other. The answer to this question must result in a partner policy that will integrate capacity development more explicitly in wpf´s activities, in order to strengthen partner organisations in serving their target group effectively and sustainably in the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights.

the story of ‘pak ’ willem way by rachel ploem willem way was one of the participants in de pilot counsellors’ training (5 -13 November 2009 in Jakarta). purpose of the training was testing the recently developed facilitator’s manual and the social workers’ workbook preparing counsellors for counselling male abusers of violence. Nine women and three men from various organisations took part in the training.

One of them was 65 year old willem way.

Until he retired, he had spent his entire professional life working within the police force, and I [Rachel, ed.] became interested in this person who intended to counsel men whom he had always considered to be ‘criminals’. willem way was born on the Indonesian island flores in 1944. He went to school on Timor and enrolled in the police academy when he was

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18, just like his father and grandfather before him. He grew up in an environment of order and discipline: ”you obeyed, for if you didn’t, there were ways to let you know how to obey”.

That held true during his childhood and when he attended boarding school, and it was the pervasive culture within the police force. Still, the more tragedies he watched unfold in people’s lives, the more he realised there are other values, which should guide his work and life. when he was still working as a vice-chief district officer, willem attended a course on spirituality and how to apply spiritual values, such as justice, equality, loyalty, etcetera, within the police system. Not an easy assignment, and one that certainly was not appreciated by many of his colleagues. willem way talks openly about raising his five children. for a long time, the use of violence was part of the ‘normal’ pattern. He simply did not know any better. Then, one day, his

almost grown-up son fought back when willem gave him a thrashing. At that moment, willem realised that he was doing something fundamentally wrong. Until that time he thought he beat his children, because he loved them and wanted to spur them on to work harder at school, etcetera. But from that day onwards he has stopped using violence altogether, since it is not the right way of expressing love of one’s children.

After he retired, willem became active in the Catholic Church, where he discussed spiritual values with bridal couples to be. He heard many stories about domestic violence. when the women’s Crisis Centre in Kupang offered him a job, it felt like “a gift from God taking me to the right place”, he says. ”I want to dedicate my life to humanity and thanks to this training (as a counsellor) I learn a lot. The most important thing is that I no longer see a perpetrator as a criminal, but as a man with a problem that can

be dealt with. He is a human being who needs to be taught something in a gentle way. That is a completely different approach from what I was used to. The training will really help me counsel men better in future.”

It was good to see how the other participants in the training treated ‘pak’ willem, an older man with authority, with a great deal of respect.

Other (younger) men would give him a gentle massage during the training, a normal convention between men. All this happened while new views on ‘masculinity’ were discussed, beyond roughness, high-risk behaviour and defending one’s honour towards a concept of more caring and sharing. During the training, the change took place on the spot.

Jakarta, November 2009.

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SubSector 1: Sexuality educatiOn • 1 Students looking at their WSWM exhibition in Bangkok • 2 Thai students following WSWM in their computer room • 3 A graphic of ‘The World Starts With Me’ (WSWM) • 4 Ugandan Students filling in the questionaire for the evaluation of WSWM • 5/6 Handmade posters of WSWM by Ugandan students

photo: Piet Hermans

photo: Billie de Haas

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SubSector 2: gender-baSed ViOlence Indonesian and South African participants of the project ‘Male counselling in the context of intimate partner violence’

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SubSector 3: acceSS tO SerViceS, including SaFe MOtHerHOOd • 1 Tanzanian women in a waiting room of a clinic • 2 Tanzanian woman getting a medical check up photos: Andrea Kuenzig

SubSector 4: MainStreaMing OF SrHr in OtHer tyPeS OF deVelOPMent PrOjectS Workshop with members of UNESEM on ‘Exchanging proposals for pilot interventions’, August 2009

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4. project portfolio SE = Sexuality Education GBV = Gender-Based Violence

SM = Safe Motherhood MA = Mainstreaming

RE = Research CB = Capacity Building

• country • best practices

• project/partner

• partner since • progress and most important results 2009 • amount 2009*

AD = Advocacy

• lessons learned in 2009 and plans for 2010

china SE

Sexuality education for young migrant workers in Nanjing (Jiangsu province).

2006 € 7,276

Partners: China Family Planning Association (CFPA), Research Institute for Family Planning of Jiangsu Province (RIFP Jiangsu), Family Planning Association of Jiangsu Province (FPA Jiangsu).

On the basis of the results of the needs assessment among young migrant workers from Suzhou and Xuzhou, a cartoon was initiated in 2009 in which the subjects unwanted pregnancy, HIV/AIDS and Gender-Based Violence are to be discussed. Following a workshop in November, the CFPA further developed the plots and layout in a concept version.

Lessons 2009: The coordination between the project partners turned out to be difficult due to lack of communication. Thanks to mutual efforts (also by inserting extra missions, partly combined with other activities) communication improved, so that the project is expected to yield a good end product after all.

Plans 2010: The developed intervention will be tested in the first quarter of 2010, following which the final version of the cartoon will be produced. To end the project, a special tour will be organised which will call at various towns where the CFPA intends to execute the intervention on a larger scale. The project end in May 2010.

This project is implemented in collaboration with the Youth Incentives programme of Rutgers Nisso Groep.

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Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS in the educational programmes of five organisations united in the MAIN PHASE network.

2006 €-

These organisations aim at mainstreaming HIV/AIDS and SRHR in current sexuality education programmes for young people.

In 2009, Oxfam Novib, which funded the project, commissioned an external party to assess the project.

WPF has applied a number of the recommendations to similar courses of action, for instance: making more use of local SRHR expertise if it is available.

Partners: Urmul Trust, Centre for Youth and Social Development (CYSD), Foundation for Education and Development (FED), Pratham, Lokmitra.

* The project costs are shown on a transactions basis. This means that the project costs in any particular year are a representation of the project commitments (for the entire duration of the project) entered into in that year. The costs include commitments for technical assistance and monitoring and evaluation.

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• country • best practices

• project/partner

• partner since • progress and most important results 2009 • amount 2009*

• lessons learned in 2009 and plans for 2010

indonesia SE

DAKU! DAKU! is the Indonesian version of The World Starts With Me (WSWM) launched in 2006.

2005 € 298,910

Until the end of 2009, 265 teachers in 94 schools were trained in using DAKU! and 5,257 secondary school pupils completed the school pack. Extra training and sessions for peer educators were organised (YPI). Advocacy resulted in a letter of recommendation from the Municipal Office of Education, in which DAKU! is recommended as an important subject in the secondary school curriculum (Mitra Aksi). In Bandar Lampung, the Municipal Office of Education made available financial means for the implementation of DAKU! (Skala).

Partners: Pelita Ilmu Foundation (YPI), www.ypi.or.id, Mitra Aksi, www.mitraaksi.org, PKBI Lampung (Skala), www.pkbi.org and PKBI Bali (Kisara) www.kisara.org

SE

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Sexuality education programme (SERU!) for boys in juvenile correctional institutes (JCI).

The computer version of DAKU! has been revised and at the request of pupils and teachers various subjects, such as stress management and drugs, have been added to the school pack.

2007 (included in amount above)

This version of DAKU! that was adapted for the specific target group was called SERU! (an abbreviation of the Indonesian phrase ‘source of education for my adolescence,’ and the word Seru means exciting).

In 2010, more schools will start using a DAKU! version that fits in the national curriculum.

Furthermore, the advocacy activities at district and regional levels will be intensified. This is partly necessary due to the vast turnover within the body of public servants and the local government institutions.

In 2010, the current facilitators will receive extra training and facilitators from newly participating JCIs will be trained.

Partners: Yayasan Galatea; this NGO from Medan (Sumatra) provides information and advice to young detainees and ex-detainees about HIV/AIDS and SRHR.

4 Facilitators (prison staff ) were trained and 20 boys (inmates) went through the whole module.

Sexuality education programme (SERU!) for boys in juvenile correctional institutes (JCI).

The SERU! school pack was also piloted in juvenile correctional institutes in Tangerang (Western Java) where 10 facilitators were trained and 20 boys attended the programme.

The national launch of SERU! will take place in 2010 in collaboration with Plan Indonesia, the Department of Justice and the Department of National Education (Directorate for Special Education). Both government institutions shown great interest in rolling out the programme to other juvenile correctional institutes.

Until August 2009, the end date of the ‘You and Me’ project, the following results were achieved: • One teacher’s book, one parents book and four booklets for the children were developed, as well as a set of dolls.

• Over 100 teachers of 50 pre-schools in 3 provinces implemented ‘You and Me’.

• The programme was explained to 1,300 parents.

• 2,806 Children followed the programme.

• In August 2009, the formal launch of ‘You and Me’ took place in Jakarta, attended by the Minister of Women Empowerment and the Directorate General of Primary and Secondary Education, Ministry of National Education.

Although the project has formally ended, in 2010, it will be executed at 40 pre-schools in Jakarta, Surabaya and Balikpapan. The programme will also be introduced in Samarinda following the enthusiastic response by the Eastern- Kalimantan government.

Yayasan Galatea counselled 135 young people and also managed to track 208 ex-detainees who were given extra information and of whom six voluntarily attended the course.

Partner: Partner: Yayasan Pelita Ilmu, see above.

This project has been implemented in collaboration with Plan Indonesia, www.plan-international.org/ wherewework/asia/indonesia SE

‘You and Me’, Social Life Skills Education for children 4-6 years of age in pre-schools in 3 provinces (Jakarta, Surabaya and Balikpapan).

Partner: Indonesian Planned Parenthood Association (PKBI), www.pkbi.org

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2005 € 60,968

Moreover, the experiences with the project will be documented as a best practice, which facilitates repetition elsewhere.

• country • best practices

• project/partner SE

Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Education for blind (Langkah Pastiku) and deaf (MAJU!) high school students in Jakarta, Bali and Yogyakarta.

• partner since • progress and most important results 2009 • amount 2009* 2007 € 172,344

The main results are: • On the basis of the first pilot the material has been simplified.

• 12 selected teachers from the 6 schools where the material was piloted and 3 staff members from the ministry were educated as Trainers of Trainers.

• 75 Teachers from 17 schools for the blind and 20 schools for the deaf in Jakarta, Western Java, Central Java, Yogyakarta, Eastern Java, Bali and Western Nusa Tenggara were trained in using the material.

• The accompanying, especially developed sign language (250 SRHR words and concepts) has been made available in book form and on DVD. • In addition to the actual school packs, various supporting teaching materials were developed.

The Directorate of Special Education made a total amount of approximately € 150,000 available to the participating schools for the introduction of the school packs.

• Monitoring the implementation in the 43 schools by various local partners (PKBI Yogyakarta; PKBI Eastern Java and Kawanusa Bali).

• Instruction films about how to teach SRHR to pupils who are blind or dead are being disseminated.

• Teachers from newly participating schools are to be trained in July 2010.

• The formal launch of MAJU and Langkah Pastiku will take place in August 2010.

2003 € 278,138

Rifka Annisa Supported 634 women, who survived GBV (480), violence during a date (60), rape (37), sexual harassment (42), domestic violence (15) and trafficking (2).

Furthermore, 67 women received legal assistance and the Crisis Center offered shelter to 10 women.

Obviously, Rifka Annisa will continue to support women survivor of violence in various ways.

Furthermore, perpetrator counselling will be extended and counselling for couples will be initiated. Lastly, a long-cherished dream of the organisation will come true: in 2010, it will start its own training centre to train staff of similar organisations.

2001 (included in amount above)

In 2009, WCC Bengkulu gave assistance to 385 survivors of Gender-Based Violence (more than half the cases concerned intimate partner violence). In addition, over 37,000 persons were reached through training courses, monthly radio talk shows and local newspapers.

The organisation also started providing assistance at community level in 12 districts in Northern Bengkulu.

WCC Bengkulu also continues to support female survivors of violence in various ways. In addition, perpetrator counselling will be extended and counselling for couples will be initiated.

Partner: Directorate of Special Education (DSE) , Ministry of National Education, www.ditplb.or.id

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Rights based approach to addressing Gender-Based Violence through women and community empowerment programmes.

Partner: Women’s Crisis Center (WCC) Rifka Annisa, www.rifka-annisa.or.id

GBV

Establishment of a referral system in North Bengkulu to assist survivors of GenderBased Violence.

Partner: Women’s Crisis Centre (WCC) Bengkulu. This NGO provides victims of violence with shelter, advice and legal aid. In addition, WCC is the driving force behind the integration of services by the police, the courts, hospitals and crisis centres.

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Prevention of child abuse by improving the social skills of children.

• lessons learned in 2009 and plans for 2010

WCC Bengkulu is continuously improving its services for victims by working closely with the police, the judiciary, lawyers and regular healthcare in the districts.

2009 € 24,767

This project is a continuation of the above-mentioned `You and Me` project.

Partner: YKAI (Indonesian Child Welfare Foundation)

MISSIONS, SMALL PROJECTS, NETWORKS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES IN INDONESIA € 22,079 + € 2,196 + € 1,846 SE

Development of the Bandung Drugs & SRH prevention program for Junior Secondary Schools.

2009

Based on DAKU!, The Indonesian version of WSWM, WPF and its Indonesian project partners develop an HIV/AIDS education programme for the lower classes of secondary school (or junior high school).

Project due to start in 2010.

Partner: IMPACT/UPK , http://impactbandung.org

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• country • best practices

• project/partner SE

Strengthening Reproductive and Sexual Health Campaign for Adolescents through the Development of a Reproductive Health Software Module.

• partner since • progress and most important results 2009 • amount 2009*

• lessons learned in 2009 and plans for 2010

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In collaboration with Cordaid, Yasanto and the diocese of Merauke, the adaption of DAKU! for secondary schools in Papua, formerly Irian Jaya, was put in motion.

This project, too, is due to start in 2010 and will follow a methodology similar to earlier WSWM adaptations.

2003 € 137,922

Currently, WPF is working with 7 project partners in 11 districts spread across Pakistan. The collaboration has resulted in including LSBE in the national education policy, which was recently approved by the government of Pakistan.

The LSBE programme has been modified from 4 years to a 2-year school pack. in the first year the focus is on LSBE (level 1), in the second year on SRHR (level 2). Level 2 is in the pilot phase.

For level 2, 17 Trainers of Trainers and 86 teachers were trained. Illustrated workbooks were developed, printed and disseminated among the participating schools.

Lessons 2009: Developing the workbooks takes more time than expected due to the difficulty of finding appealing characters.

Being granted permission by the government and schools for implementing the new level 2 (SRHR) curriculum likewise demanded more time than expected, which is mainly due to the transfer of civil servants or the appointment of new civil servants.

6 Boys ‘and 6 girls’ boarding schools were selected for this pilot project. In spite of poor security, the programme was offered to a total of 1,355 young people. The physical health of the pupils was screened, involving local healthcare centres.

Advisory councils at national and regional level, consisting of 12 mullahs, contributed to the development of the school pack and helped further the effectiveness of and support base for the project; A teachers’ manual and a pupils’ workbook were developed from an Islamic perspective; 12 Trainers of Trainers and 32 teachers were trained in the principles of LSBE.

Lessons 2009: The school pack has gained broad acceptance by governments, religious leaders, parents and the schools; The faith-based education institutions offer little or no room for participative education. This must be taken into account when developing materials and in trainings; Health screening of the pupils proves useful to counter the spread of infectious disease and is to be extended.

IIn November 2009, a 3-year programme was started aiming to empower girls in underdeveloped communities in Pakistan, so that they are better able to stand up for themselves in the fields of sexuality and reproductive health.

Plans 2010: Selection of Trainers of Trainers, schools and teachers, as well as training the first two teachers; Developing a life skills and economic empowerment module for girls.

Partner: Yasanto; http://antoniusbidaracina.blogspot.com/

pakistan SE

Life Skills Based Education (LSBE) Programme 2008-2010.

Partners: Pakistan Village Development Programme, www.pvdppak.org; Awaz Foundation Pakistan; Centre for Development Services, www.awazcds.org.pk (until June 30, 2009); Sarsabz Foundation, www.sarsabz.org; Health & Nutrition Development Society- HANDS, www.hands.org.pk (until June 30, 2009); AIDS Awareness Society, www.aas.org.pk; Participatory Integrated Development Society, www.pidsnpo.org; Transformation & Reflection for Rural Development (TRD), www.trdsindh. org; Peace Education and Development Foundation, www.pead.org.pk; Teachers’ Development Society, www.tdc.edu.pk SE

Life Skills Based Programme (LSBE) for young people in faith-based education institutions.

December 2008 € 56,170

Partners: Pakistan Village Development Programme, www.pvdppak.org, Participatory Integrated Development Society, www.pidsnpo.org

SE

Empowerment programme for girls: ‘Empowering GirlsTransforming Communities’.

Partner: Bargad www.bargad.org.pk, Sindh Agricultural & Forestry Workers Coordinating Organisation (SAFWCO)

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2009 € 4,143

Late 2009, the intended area, the project partners and project staff were selected. Agreements with the partners and the district government were signed.

The project started out with orienting visits in the selected region for the location specific project focus, a baseline study and the training of project staff.

Plans 2010: In 2010, the results of level 1 will be assessed; teachers will be trained in level 1 and the level 2 curriculum will be implemented with the objective of reaching 20,000 pupils this year.

Plans 2010: IIn 2010, the results will be evaluated independently and a national forum will be organised to share the evaluation findings and experiences with a broader public.

• country • best practices

• project/partner GBV

Capacity building for NGOs to further countering GenderBased Violence (GBV).

• partner since • progress and most important results 2009 • amount 2009* 2009 € 73,254

Partners: The National Educational & Environmental Development Society (The NEEDS), Social Youth Council of Patriots (SYCOP) sycopngo@yahoo.com, Community Development Foundation, Kainaat Development Association, Al- Asar Development Organisation (ADO), Society for Community organisation and support for Education (SCOPE) CB

Strengthening of Government (SOG).

Manuals for (Trainers of ) Trainers, partner organisations and 60 community organisations were developed and capacity building activities were completed. Consequently, awareness-raising activities were carried out at local level. A documentary was produced about GBV in Pakistan. A national forum serves as a source of information and exchange for the stakeholders. A network of the 6 partners has been developed to follow up on the developments in the fields of GBV and reproductive health.

Empowerment programme for people who have a disability.

Youth Development Programme.

Partners: Youth Advocacy Network (YAN) was established in 2005 by CHOICE and WPF Pakistan. YAN advocates for young people’s SRHR in Pakistan through youth participation.

CHOICE, www.choiceforyouth.org Plan Pakistan, www.planpakistan.org

Plans 2010: Continuation of this programme as core programme of WPF Pakistan as the leading knowledge organisation; Building on to the capacity building of relevant organisations; Strengthening the network in view of the sustainability of the programme.

On July 11, 2009, WPF was conferred the Population Day Award 2009 by the government of Pakistan to express thanks for WPF’s efforts to build government capacity at the Ministry of Population Welfare.

Plans 2010: Building the capacity of the national and regional governments in the field of SRHR continues to be a priority for WPF and it will seize at every opportunity to realise this.

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The purpose of the project was to teach mentally disabled children a number of basic skills en to build the capacity of the volunteers working in the centre.

The children were taught basis skills (concentrating, eating and drinking, dressing and hygiene) more advanced learning skills (reading and writing, self-consciousness, grocery shopping and socialisation) and vocational training (sewing, designing postcards, arts and crafts and wrapping things up) and were supported by various therapists. The 38 volunteers at the centre received (extra) training in child psychology, recognising and preventing sexual abuse, assistance to parents, awareness-raising in society, homecare and reporting.

In March 2009, the project was concluded with a large-scale seminar in which various involves government institutions took part and during which support to the centre and care of people with a disability was promised.

2005 € 3,654

Awareness-raising activities in 4 districts reached 193 young people; YAN members were trained in subjects like mobilising financial means, writing propositions, homosexuality, gender and abortion; 20 Youth leaders of the National Youth Task Force (NYTF) participated in capacity building workshops in which policy analysis and advocacy were linked to their working practice; WPF and Plan Pakistan jointly developed a national youth development strategy 2009-2013 for young adults, which can be used as a tool for policy reforms for the benefit of adolescents in Pakistan.

Lessons 2009: Advocacy activities require continuous follow-up as well as commitment by the stakeholders; A dynamic follow-up for the building of the NYTF capacity with the relevant policymakers might have accelerated the process into a dialogue for effective policy reforms.

Plans 2010: YAN continues the work with minimal support

by WPF; NYTF and YAN will represent young people at various relevant forums; Policy dialogue and advocacy aimed at the a doption of the national youth development strategy 2009-2013 will be continued.

Partners: Kiran Vocational Centre (KVC) KVC advances the wellbeing of children/ young people with a disability belonging to very poor families who cannot even pay a nominal fee for their rehabilitation.

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Lessons 2009: Dealing with GBV from a reproductive health perspective is a suitable approach in a conservative and politicised society and makes it easier to get messages across.

Thanks to the combination of capacity building and practice, the targets were achieved in an efficient and effective way.

2008 € 22,747

Partners: National Trust for Population Welfare (NATPOW) Ministry of Youth Affairs Ministry of Population Welfare (MoPW) Education Departments in District Mitiari, Karachi and Multan GBV

In 2009, a project was started aimed at improving and building the capacity of 60 partners in the 6 districts with a high prevalence of Gender-Based Violence, in order to develop projects in the fields of reproductive health and countering GBV.

• lessons learned in 2009 and plans for 2010

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Safe motherhood.

Institutionalisation of SRH rights in Pakistan.

• partner since • progress and most important results 2009 • amount 2009* 2007 € 11,647

2009 € 172,905

Partners: Awaz Foundation Pakistan; Centre for Development Services, www.awazcds.org.pk (from July1, 2009); Health & Nutrition Development SocietyHANDS, www.hands.org.pk (from July1, 2009); Aahung, www.aahung.org; and District Education Departments

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Stop Aids Now!

2008 € 38,897

Partners: Aahung, www.aaahung.org; AIDS Awareness Society (AAS), www.aas.org.pk; PAVHNA, www.pavhna.com; AMAN, www.amanpk.org; IHDCS; PNAC, www.pnac.net.pk; DANESH

• lessons learned in 2009 and plans for 2010

In 2009, WPF organised awareness-raising activities regarding safe motherhood aimed at the general public – paying special attention to maternal mortality, early marriages, nutrition before, during and after pregnancy, by means of provincial seminars, dialogues with policymakers, media and other interested parties, culminating in the national Mother’s Night event; Successful advocacy resulted in government support for the UN resolution for maternal death prevention as a human right.

Lessons 2009: The subscription to the UN resolution shows the importance of concerted efforts for an objective.

Political instability and religious extremism turn out to be an impediment for government support.

This 4-year project started early in 2009. The project focuses on improving the SRHR of young people in Pakistan by mainstreaming SRHR in the policy and services of the education and healthcare sectors on the basis of research.

2 National and 1 international research/advisory panels, consisting of scientists, experts, policymakers and people with experience in the field were involved in the development and implementation of the monitoring instrument for SRHR (Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Assessment Framework tool (SeHRAF)).

Cooperation agreements were signed with partners and local governments. A SRHR-based LSBE school pack was developed for young people. Trainings in project management and SRH for project staff. 58 Trainers of Trainers and 363 teachers were educated for the LSBE first level school pack.

Lessons 2009: The available literature turned out to be limited and fragmented, and relevant literature from the (Southern) Asia region proved insufficient; It also proved difficult to find an experienced (inter) national consultant to support the research activities.

For the purpose of building the capacity of the 8 partner organisations involved, the results of former workshops were assessed to improve the use of the E-Pat tool.

The development of the E-Pat tool and user manual were completed and translated into Urdu.

The collaboration with Stop Aids Now! will be continued in other countries.

MISSIONS, SMALL PROJECTS, NETWORKS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES IN PAKISTAN

Plans 2010: In 2010, WPF will organise another Mother’s Night event.

Plans 2010: The ultimate project execution on the basis of the research results starts in January 2010.

In Pakistan, an effort will be made to familiarise more partners with the E-Pat tool through the PSO collective learning trajectory.

€ 46,335

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Using interactive theatre to promote good sexual health among young people (phase three).

Partner: Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union: an umbrella organisation for young people in Vietnam. The Union is active on all societal levels and has about 2 million members.

2002 € 52,819

The theatre troupes from Hung Hguyen and Nghi Loc gave 110 performances, reaching 15,000 young people; The new troupes from Nam Dinh and Ninh Binh reached 17,000 young people during a total of 102 performances.

15 Advisors and managers were trained in SRHR and interactive theatre skills. Moreover, 20 theatre troupe members and advisors were trained as Masters of Ceremonies and taught interactive theatre skills.

20 Staff members of local partners participated in a planning workshop.

Lessons 2009: The theatre troupe in the Ninh Binh province has attracted the attention of other institutions, such as the Women’s Union, the police and the Department of Health. In future, they intend to make use of interactive theatre for communicating with the general public. The provincial Youth Union will attempt to mobilise additional means to this end, which is important in view of the sustainability of the project. In collaboration with theatre troupes, WPF will try to roll out this model to other provinces.

Plans 2010: WPF will provide extra training in SRHR and interactive theatre techniques for the various troupes.

The troupes continue to give performances, partly with newly developed scripts.

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‘Break Through’ project for improving the health of youth in 4 re-education schools (phase 3).

• partner since • progress and most important results 2009 • amount 2009* 2001 € 199,089

Partner: Department V26 of the Ministry of Public Security: V26 manages the prison system in Vietnam, including re-education schools.

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Implementing SRH Education with a CD-based curriculum in DaNang University of Education (DUE).

2007 € 165,662

Partner: Da Nang University of Education: this is the biggest teacher training university in Central Vietnam with more than 10,000 students.

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Dance4life: a youth movement to break taboos & increase awareness of HIV/AIDS/SRH issues.

2005 € 80,686

Partner: Dance4life International, www.dance4life.com

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Using your hands to talk about sex: sexuality education for hearing impaired young people.

Partner: Xa Dan secondary school: a school for hearing impaired students in Hanoi. It includes kindergarten to grade 9 (maximum grade for Vietnamese hearing impaired students).

2007 € 87,984

• lessons learned in 2009 and plans for 2010

• In 2009, 4,000 students were reached by the improved healthcare within the ministry’s 4 re-education schools.

2,000 Students were given SRH information through the SRH lesson range and 10,000 brochures on Safe Sex and related subjects were disseminated among the pupils, through libraries, dormitories and during health tests among others. 95 Peer educators provided information on SRH and individual counselling to more than 1,000 peers/ pupils.

• 10 Teachers were educated to be basic trainers for vocational training. The vocational training facilities are improved, giving this education type a more sustainable character, so that many students will profit in the long run.

Lessons 2009: In November 2009, an internal interim evaluation of the project was executed. The report containing recommendations for the remainder of the project period will be made available in February 2010.

Using positive feed-back from the pre-evaluation and a further contribution by national and international experts, the final version of the teaching method ‘Journey to Adulthood’ was established in 2009, consisting of ten lessons of 120 minutes each. The school pack has also been made accessible to students and other interested parties through the DUE website – www.giaoducgiotinh.org.vn. A database containing 500 questions was developed for the student evaluation at the end of the semester.

Within the biology, geography, psychology and politicology faculties, the SRH training course has become part of the curriculum in order to meet the vast demand of the students.

At the Hoang Hoa Tam secondary school, a working party of 5 teachers and 6 students adapted the teaching method to the pupils’ level, resulting in a series of 10 lessons of 90 minutes each. The pre-evaluation involving 45 pupils was received enthusiastically.

Lessons 2009: The project underlines the importance of ownership in the ultimate execution of the project.

The partners in DaNang really feel they own the project, which becomes evident from a pro-active attitude, especially with respect to university management (SRHR is now a compulsory subject for all the students) and from advocacy aimed at other managers of educational institutions in the province.

Linking & learning activities have a very stimulating effect. The project team visited Thailand where WPF is executing a similar project. This well-prepared study tour has handed many new ideas to the Vietnamese partners.

Dance4life organised three highly successful events on World AIDS Day in Hanoi, DaNang and Ho Chi Min City and thus reaches over 13,000 young people.

The School Tour team organised 22 workshops reaching 4,400 pupils. All the pupils were given information materials on SRH-related subjects.

In the scope of HIV prevention, 12 teachers were trained by WPF. 11 Schools submitted 108 works of art in the scope of an Arts Contest. The works were displayed in the Hanoi library.

The event attracted a lot of media attention.

Lessons 2009: The project gains more and more experience with actively involving young people in the dance4life activities, which are largely new and unusual in the Vietnamese context.

In 2009, the developed teaching method was piloted.

88 Students took part in the pilot. The method consists of a training manual, a glossary in sign language and an advisory manual for teachers.

A counselling manual for teachers has been developed as well. 497 Students made use of the opportunity to receive counselling.

Over 700 copies of the SRHR brochures and information materials were disseminated among parents and teachers during discussion sessions.

The project evaluation showed very positive results.

The project was ended at the end of November 2009. WPF tries to find funding to introduce the project in other schools for hearing impaired young people in Vietnam. Moreover, there are plans to develop sexuality education for blind pupils, based on the experiences with a similar project in Indonesia.

MISSIONS, SMALL PROJECTS, NETWORKS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES IN VIETNAM

Plans 2010: Apart from the regular activities (life skills education) a lot of attention will be paid in 2010 to extending and improving vocational training in the schools. Moreover, the medical staff within the facilities will receive further training, which in 2010 will focus on mental healthcare for the pupils.

Lastly the final evaluation of the project will be initiated.

In 2010, the sexuality education programme for secondary schools will be given its final shape and a DVD containing didactic skills will be developed to support both university tutors and secondary school teachers in providing sexuality education.

Plans 2010: Apart from the regular activities (involving young people, teaching them life skills and activating them) another worldwide event will take place in November 2010. Vietnam will participate for the second time.

€ 46,569

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Sexuality education in schools based on the Thai version of The World Starts With Me, entitled The World Turns By My Hands (WTMH).

2001 € 86,845

Partners: Association for the Promotion of the Status of Women (APSW), www.apsw-thailand.org; Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), www.bma.go.th

In 2009, at the request of the Ministry of Education, WSWM was integrated in the regular curriculum in all the BMA schools, where the school pack is spread over three years.

As a result, a number of bottlenecks was prevented and the substantive starting-points of the WSWM programme were upheld. The WSWM launch in May and the press conferences in June generated a lot of publicity, which is conducive to the integration of WSWM in the regular curriculum.

WSWM was started in 49 new schools, so that a total of 97 schools implemented WSWM in 2009. For several reasons, 4 schools were yet unable to implement the programme. With 159 teachers newly trained, a total of 292 teachers implemented the programme in 2009.

To further the support base and sustainability of WSWM as an integral part of the curriculum, APSW took the initiative to form networks of teachers and schools. The purpose of these networks is to further exchange of knowledge and experiences between network members.

Lessons 2009: The teachers involved are heavily burdened by the regular programme combined with various other initiatives that are implemented in schools.

Training of pupil assistants is advocated who can support the teachers in the implementation of the WSWM programme In turn, these assistants should train new assistants (their successors) to warrant continuity.

In the hierarchic structure of BMA, personal, formal and informal networks prove to have great influence on decision-making.

Plans 2010: In 2010, students will be selected and trained as teachers’ assistants in the implementation of the WSWM programme.

In 2008 WPF executed a large-scale evaluation of the sexuality education programmes in Indonesia, Kenya, Uganda and Thailand. The final report is expected in the first half of 2010.

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Scaling up skilled care during pregnancy and giving birth.

2007 € 98,153

Partner: Family Care International (FCI), www.familycareintl.org

In 2009, FCI made an effort to mainstream specific obstetrics competences in national guidelines, which have by now been translated into Kiswahili. Distribution of the guidelines will take place in 2010.

Efforts at district level have resulted in including skilled care strategies year budgets and plans in 5 districts.

FCI has trained district healthcare committees in a method aimed at improvement of the quality of care and focused on the client (COPE), resulting in action plans in collaboration with staffs and communities.

Healthcare management teams at district level have been trained in improving the management of maternal care.

Both at local, district and national level, organisations struggle with too limited a capacity. This affects all aspects of the caring during pregnancy and childbirth.

In 2009, the WSWM programme was extended from 95 to 112 schools spread across the Nairobi, Nyanza, Central and Coast provinces. 108 Teachers and assistants from 60 schools were trained in 4 different regions. In 2009, a total of over 6,160 young people were reached.

Other collaborative links (among others with AMREF in the nomadic South of Kenya) also provided the possibility to extend the programme to areas where CSA formerly had no outreach.

In October 2009, WSWM Kenya was started on Facebook, to promote exchange between former and current pupils and teachers.

Lessons 2009: Financial and material contributions by the participating schools are conditional to the sustainability of WSWM. Furthermore, networks and collaborative links are essential in the support for extending.

At the end of 2009, WPF withdrew from this project. FCI focuses on improving the care for pregnant women on the basis of strengthening the healthcare system, staff training and greater community commitment. WPF stresses the prevention of unwanted pregnancies.

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The World Starts With Me (WSWM) in secondary schools and centres for disadvantaged youth in Kenya.

Partners: Centre for the Study of Adolescence (CSA), www.csakenya.org; Nairobits Digital Design School, www.nairobits.com

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2005 € 134,500

Plans 2010: Current collaborative links with AMREF, Africa Alive and SHAREFRAME will be developed. In 2010, CSA will focus mainly on improving the quality of the programme, for which the evaluation results will be leading. In order to achieve this, there will be a relatively minor increase (20) in the number of schools in 2010. The objective for 2010 is to reach a total of 7,260 pupils in 132 schools directly.

To meet the demand from former WSWM pupils to be involved in making sexuality education accessible to all the young people in Kenya, in collaboration with CHOICE a youth advocacy network will be set up in 2010 with the project name PEBA: Peer Educators Become Advocates.

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SHAREFRAME: Sexual development, HIV/AIDS and Reproductive health Education FRAMEwork (Kenya).

• partner since • progress and most important results 2009 • amount 2009* 2007 € 9,465

Partners: Educaids, www.educaids.nl.

Partners in Kenya are: ADRA, Dupoto-E Maa, ICS, KAACR (focal point: www.kaacr.com), KANCO, LISP, Nairobits, NCCK, OAIC, RAPADO, Undugu Society Kenya and Seed Samburu.

WPF’s partner CSA is a support organisation in the Kenyan network.

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HERA: Development of a sexuality education programme in the west of Kenya.

In 2008, all the Educaids members, both in Kenya and Uganda (see below), conducted research among their own target groups, following training by and with support from WPF. The assessment results that were presented in 2009 gave insight in the sexual lives of young people. The main conclusions are that young people become sexually active at an early age and are often confronted with the negative consequences of sexuality, such as sexual harassment, unwanted pregnancy and abortion. On the basis of these findings, various organisations have modified their SRHR policy, while the entire network developed a framework for facts and rights based SRHR interventions.

• lessons learned in 2009 and plans for 2010

Lessons 2009: In 2008, all the Educaids members, both in Kenya and Uganda (see below), conducted research among their own target groups, following training by and with support from WPF. The assessment results that were presented in 2009 gave insight in the sexual lives of young people. The main conclusions are that young people become sexually active at an early age and are often confronted with the negative consequences of sexuality, such as sexual harassment, unwanted pregnancy and abortion. On the basis of these findings, various organisations have modified their SRHR policy, while the entire network developed a framework for facts and rights based SRHR interventions.

Plans 2010: Now that the organisations have (improved) SRHR policies and a joint framework, they are ready to make the step towards intervention development or adaption and implementation. Therefore, in 2010, provided sufficient funding is made available, a number of Kenyan and Ugandan Educaids members will start small-scale implementation of – possibly specially adapted – WSWM among their target groups. The fact that Nairobits, which has been familiar with WSWM for years, will be the Kenyan point of contact for Educaids in 2010 will certainly contribute to the success of this new step.

2008 € 1,123

Partners: Hivos, www.hivos.nl; Simavi, www.simavi.org; selected Kenyan organisations (CSA, AWC, KEFEADO en YWLI).

In 2009, Hivos, Simavi, WPF and selected partners continued developing a comprehensive programme aimed at improving the SRH of young people in the west of Kenya under the working name HERA. Sexuality education of school going and non-school going youths has been designated as the most important intervention strategy, while involving the community, advocating and implementing good government policy and improving the access to youth-friendly health services are supporting strategies. Regular consultation between all parties involved, support for the various parties by a consultant and participation by the Kenyan partners in an SRHR training by ISS have been supportive in further shaping HERA´s plans.

Lessons 2009: An important lesson for 2009 is that the development of a programme by parties who are far apart is a complicated exercise. Distance makes it harder for the parties to get to know each other and effect a good division of roles and responsibilities.

Furthermore, it is often difficult to make staff available for programme development.

For more information, see: SHAREFRAME: Sexual development, HIV/AIDS and Reproductive health Education FRAMEwork Kenya.

For more information, see: SHAREFRAME: Sexual development, HIV/AIDS and Reproductive health Education FRAMEwork Kenya.

Plans 2010: In 2010, the various parties will dot the i´s and cross the t´s of the HERA programme concept. In view of this it is important to explorer the potential desirability of entering into additional collaborative links.

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SHAREFRAME: Sexual development, HIV/AIDS and Reproductive health Education FRAMEwork (Uganda).

2008 € 5,726

Partners: Educaids, www.educaids.nl.

Partners in Uganda are: ADRA, CEREDO, Church of Uganda (point of contact), CRO, HealthNeed Uganda, Kyetume Community Based Health Programme, Pobedam, YWCA, and ZOA.

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UNESEM: Uganda Network on Sexuality Education Mainstreaming.

Mainstreaming SRHR, HIV/ AIDS and gender in the education programme of Oxfam Novib’s Ugandan partner organisations.

• partner since • progress and most important results 2009 • amount 2009* 2008 € 147,489

Partners: Oxfam Novib, www.oxfamnovib.nl and its Ugandan partner organisations LABE (www.labeuganda.org, point of contact), FAWEU, UNATU, Ceford, HAG and ACORD. BRAC is an associate network member.

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The World Starts With Me (WSWM) in Ugandan secondary schools.

Life skills education for young people perinatally infected with HIV. Partner: The AIDS Support Organisation (TASO Uganda), www.tasouganda.org

Lessons 2009: Sexuality is a subject evoking fierce discussions in Uganda. Since UNESEM members are not, nor need to become, SRHR experts, it was not always easy for the members to define their position regarding controversial subjects, such as sexual diversity and abortion.

It became clear from the interim evaluation that although using Intervention Mapping and conducting needs assessments was appreciated, it was also considered to be too academic. Therefore, WPF will modify the trainings in order to further close the gap between theory and practice.

Plans 2010: In 2010, the pilot interventions of the various UNESEM members will be conducted with limited support by WPF.

2002 € 173,193

Partner: SchoolNet Uganda (SNU), www.schoolnetuganda.sc.ug

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In 2009, the six UNESEM members received further training and support mainstreaming SRHR in their education programmes. An important milestone in this respect as founding a joint UNESEM framework on the basis of the context analysis results and the assessment of the needs of young people.

Late in 2009, the network members developed project propositions for mainstreaming SRHR in their current activities, on the basis of this framework and the research results.

These propositions were approved by Oxfam Novib by the end of 2009.

Also in 2009, an interim evaluation was conducted that helped shape the 2010 plan for UNESEM.

• lessons learned in 2009 and plans for 2010

2007 € 40,723

In 2009, WSWM was implemented in 147 schools across Uganda. 422 Teachers and 120 peer educators –part of whom were trained in 2009 – reached a total of 15,491 pupils. Indirectly, 30,000 young people were reached.

In the context of sustainability a number of activities were started or enhanced in 2009: Teachers and pupils who have questions can contact the WSWM online support centre: www.schoolnetuganda.sc.ug/ wswmonlinesupport.

Participating schools are expected to make a financial contribution towards the implementation by paying the travelling expenses made for training workshops by head masters, teachers and peer educators as well as purchasing costs of WSWM working materials.

In 2009, a computer revolving fund was established: SNU repairs bought up second-hand computers and sells them to (possibly WSWM) schools for a small profit. The profit is used for the implementation of WSWM.

Lessons 2009: A challenge to the implementation is the turnover of teachers, including teachers trained in WSWM. The gap they leave behind in their former schools is regularly filled by untrained colleagues and peer educators. By now, one third of all the WSWM teachers has had no training.

SNU has drawn up a school-specific referral survey.

Partly thanks to this survey, schools can link to healthcare services better and better and increasingly invite healthcare workers to discuss specific SRHR subjects during lessons.

In 2009, counsellors of the eleven TASO centres throughout Uganda and young people perinatally infected with HIV commented on all the WSWM lessons taught at secondary schools. The group decided to add four more lessons: living positively, fighting and dealing with stigmatisation; counselling and young positive’ relations; and drug addiction.

Likewise in 2009, the initial impetus was given to the new design of this WSWM+ (+ indicating HIV positive).

Lessons 2009: An important lesson in 2009 was that the TASO counsellors realised that young people with HIV (including those who were perinatally infected) do not only have wishes and dreams regarding sexuality and having children, but especially that they have as much right to living healthy sexual lives, as any other individual. The counsellor’s role is to counsel young people rather than prescribing them to do anything, or advising against sexual activity or having children, For the young people perinatally infected with HIV it proved very important to be taken seriously and to be able to take themselves seriously.

Plans 2010: The theme of the year 2010 will primarily be improving the quality of the WSWM programme, for which the results of the 2008/2009 evaluation study will be leading. In view of this quality improvement, no new schools will be added in the year to come. The objective is to reach a total of 23,000 young people directly in 150 schools.

Plans 2010: In 2010, the existing WSWM lessons will continue to be modified and nieuw lessons will be developed, following which the newly designed school pack will be piloted in the eleven TASO centres.

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Sexuality education in primary schools.

• partner since • progress and most important results 2009 • amount 2009* 2008 € 393

Partner: Save the Children in Uganda, (www.savethechildren.ug), Save the Children Nederland (www.savethechildren.nl) and Kyambogo University (this university received a mandate from the Ugandan Ministry of Education to develop educational materials for primary schools).

• lessons learned in 2009 and plans for 2010

In 2009, the assessment of the current situation and the needs of 9 to 14 year- old children in the west of Uganda with respect to growing up and the role sexuality plays in this was conducted by Kyambogo University and Save the Children staff in Uganda. The main results are that some of these children come into contact with (unwanted) sexual activity from an early age (9 years) and that ignorance is rife where physical changes and relationships are concerned. In this respect, support is necessary. On the basis of the assessment results, the learning targets for the age brackets 9 to 11 and 12 to 14 have been defined. The targets have been discussed with selected parents and teachers as well as with the pupils. The learning targets constitute the starting point for the age-specific modification of the WSWM pack that Kyambogo University will execute in collaboration with WPF.

Lessons 2009: Very few reliable data proved to be available in the field of the SRHR of Ugandan children in the age bracket of 9 to 14 years. Moreover, more assistance on the part of WPF was needed for conducting qualitative and quantitative research on SRHR than expected. As a result, the assessment took more time than had been expected.

In 2003, the free 24-hour telephone helpline for advice on emergency contraception after unsafe sex was launched in Western Cape. In 2007, this hotline became accessible throughout South Africa and has been fully automated since May 2009.

Apart from access to the website, the EC hotline was called more than 2,700 times. In the first half of 2009, a total of nearly 11,000 posters, brochures and cards were distributed, not including the material that various regions distributed on their own.

Through (extra) training courses on relevant subjects over 800 training assistants and clinical staff were reached.

During introduction weeks at two universities awarenessraising activities were organised, reaching 2,000 students.

Lessons 2009: The need for advocacy and awareness-raising activities continues undiminished. Especially among young people, knowledge about emergency contraception proves limited.

The estimated number of pupils in secondary schools in each province is: Kwazulu-Natal: Grade 10-11: 200,000 pupils; Grade 12: 200,000 pupils.

Eastern Cape: 1,500. Western Cape: Grade 10: 67,175; Grade 11: 59,543; Grade 12: 43,954.

In 2009, a total of 153.360 pupils’ workbooks, 8,000 teacher manuals and 8,000 CD-ROMs (available in four languages) as well as 4,000 DVDs were produced. In the Northern Cape the production process has been initiated.

10 Schools from each province took part in the essay and poetry contest. The 9 prizewinning works were published in book form.

Parent participation workshops meet with great enthusiasm. They are documented by means of a workshop manual and DVD (funded by Stop Aids Now!). Many organisations showed an interest in this manual, in view of translation for Western Africa, among other reasons.

Lessons 2009: The close contacts with the Ministries of Education and Health will be continued. Both ministries appreciate the project, not only its content but also its scrupulous adherence to the national standards for curriculum development.

Plans 2010: In 2010, the printed version of the new school pack will continue to be developed, in terms of both contents and design. The new school pack will subsequently be piloted in two primary schools, following a teacher training in June 2010. The development of the school pack will be finalised before the end of 2010.

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mergency Contraception E Hotline (EC-Hotline).

Partner: Stellenbosch University, www.not-2-late.co.za

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Extension of the CD-ROM information pack Today’s Choices, on high risk behaviour, which is available in four languages.

Partner: Adolescent Reproductive Health Project of Stellenbosch University, www.arhp.co.za

2003 (budgetneutral extension)

2003 € 525

Planns 2010: New fundraising activities will be carried out to secure funding for and continuation of the telephone helpline.

Plans 2010: Further extension of the programme to other provinces; rounding off the concept module on HIV- positive young people and the subjects of stigmatisation and gender. Rounding off the trainer manual; Also, a CD-ROM was developed containing a summary in quiz form for healthcare clinics, which will be piloted in 2010.

Furthermore, a lot of attention will be paid in 2010 to setting up a good monitoring system, not only with regard to the number of participating pupils, teachers and schools, but especially aimed at ensuring the education quality.

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Improving the well-being of women.

• partner since • progress and most important results 2009 • amount 2009* 2002 € 164,881

Partner: Mosaic Training, Service and Healing Centre for Women This partner organisation offers an integrated service to abused women and their families. Mosaic fulfils a key role in the tackling of Gender-Based Violence in South Africa and supports other organisations in their work in this area.

In 2009, professionalism on the part of Mosaic increased through strengthening of the monitoring and evaluation system, including necessary staff trainings.

In view of the vast need of information on and provisions for SRHR in communities, Mosaic organised a growing number of workshops, which were attended by both men and women.

In 2009, the counselling toolkit for male perpetrators was piloted. The toolkit consists of a counselling manual and a training manual for social workers. The pilot results will be assessed early in 2010 after which the toolkit will be finalised.

For the sake of effective assistance to perpetrators of violence, Mosaic also started awareness-raising workshops for community leaders. Collaborative links with men’s organisations are being extended.

• lessons learned in 2009 and plans for 2010

Lessons 2009: In 2009, the reorganisation that was started in 2008 resulted in further tuning and integrating care and activities at community level offered by Mosaic.

This concerns integration of legal aid and social and healthcare assistance. Also, decentralisation resulted in more active involvement in networks at community level and an improved system of referral to both the Mosaic SRHR clinic and to other organisations.

Thanks to the quality of its work, Mosaic is increasingly considered as a leading actor in the field of Gender-Based Violence and SRHR, both within and outside South Africa. The organisation increasing acts as an active advocate at regional and international level. One side-effect is that this vastly increases the pressure of work and that more choices will have to be made in future.

Mosaic increasingly plays a role in the field of advocacy in relation to Gender-Based Violence and SRHR, at local, provincial and national level as well as internationally (among others UNGASS).

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Evaluation WSWMprogramme.

2008 € 36,050

In 2008, WPF started an evaluation study aimed at measuring to what extent the WSWM programme brings about changes among young people in the fields of knowledge, skills, self image and behavioural intentions.

Due to differing school years in the countries were the evaluation is being conducted, the final evaluation report is expected in the middle of 2010.

2008 € 29,427

As a PSO member WPF tries to answer the following question with the help of the capacity building learning trajectory: For WPF as a thematic SRHR organisation, what is the right balance between technical assistance on the one hand and network strengthening in the SRHR niche on the other?

Lessons 2009: A strong internal and external organisation proves conditional to the success of efficiently and effectively achieving the intended targets and results.

Partner: WSWM partners in Uganda, Kenya, Thailand and Indonesia CB

Capacity building learning trajectory in collaboration with PSO. Partner: All the core countries where WPF supports projects.

The learning trajectory started late in 2009 and will run until early 2012. In close collaboration with its field offices and selected partners from Africa and Asia, WPF aims at finding a balance in the facilitation of organisational linking and learning.

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Involving men in tackling intimate partner violence – an innovative approach.

Partner: Mosaic Training, Service and Healing Centre for Women, South Africa Women’s Crisis Centre (WCC) Bengkulu, Indonesia Women’s Crisis Center (WCC) Rifka Annisa, Indonesia

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€ 61,190

In 2009, major progress has been made in developing the toolkit for tackling Gender-Based Violence, consisting of a counselling manual and a training manual. The toolkit was piloted in Indonesia and South Africa. Additional expertise in the field of counselling men was brought into action.

At the end of 2009, this intervention was nominated for the PSO Innovation Award 2010.

Partner consultations resulted in a ‘linking and learning’ learning process aimed at improving the quality of aid to male perpetrators within a strengthened organisation.

Plans 2010: Early in 2010, selected partners in Africa and Asia and the WPF field offices will conduct organisational self-evaluations. The objective is to identify points for improvement and strong points in the fields of organisation, themes and networks, and to find ways of sharing this information with others. The evaluation results will be leading for the development of linking and learning and capacity building activities.

The evaluation of the WPF office in Utrecht will be postponed until after the intended merger with RNG by the end of 2010.

Lessons 2009: Developing and implementing an aid programme for male perpetrators by women’s organisations implies major organisational changes, which also has implications for WPF’s wo Plans 2010: Early in 2010, the pilot results will be assessed and incorporated in the Training and Counselling Manual as the last step towards the definitive counselling programme for male perpetrators. In 2010, a great effort will be made towards further distribution of the so-called. ‘Male Counselling Toolkit’, and improvement of the couple counselling interventions will be initiated.

• country • best practices

• project/partner CB

• partner since • progress and most important results 2009 • amount 2009*

Advocacy workshops.

€ 55,504

Partner: Developing partners (Locally and Internationally) Policymakers and government officials Media – electronic & press The public – especially young people WPF field offices in Vietnam, Pakistan and Indonesia and local partners

In 2009, WPF staff in Pakistan, Vietnam and Indonesia were trained with the objective of integrating the communication and advocacy strategies in the organisation; In Pakistan, 6 partner organisations together with WPF developed advocacy officer work plans for the inclusion of advocacy as an integral part of the LSBE programme; 2 youth groups, de WPF Pakistan youth coordinator and advocacy officer (a total of 21 persons) were trained in advocacy knowledge and skills.

Since advocacy is a relatively new concept in Vietnam, the basic principles were treated. Subsequently plans were made for how these principles were to be translated and included in future project propositions.

In Indonesia, 6 partner organisations and youths develop work plans to advocate for the inclusion of SRHR in regular school curriculums. Local and district governments committed themselves to the implementation of SRHR education through the mainstreaming of the DAKU! school pack in the regular curriculum. As soon as approval has been formalised, Indonesian parliament will include this item in its budget.

MISSIONS, SMALL PROJECTS, NETWORKS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES

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• lessons learned in 2009 and plans for 2010

Lessons 2009: In Vietnam, advocacy are still in their infancy. in this context, much attention should be paid to forming coalitions and developing strategies.

Plans 2010: The developed advocacy strategies will be implemented in 2010. Partner capacity in the field of advocacy will be a point for attention in this respect.

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5. communication and fundraising Objective The World Population Foundation (WPF) wants to increase the quality of life of people in developing countries by improving sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). We can only achieve this if others support our endeavours. That’s why we inform politicians, media and the general public to make them aware of the problems and to obtain their (financial) support for our activities.

Desired results WPF is aiming for the following results by 2010: 40% aided brand awareness in the target group; 100 volunteers; 8,000 benefactors; 4,000 persons involved in (advocacy) campaigns.

Results in 2009 • 6 % aided brand awareness in the target group ‘women’, scoring 7.0 for appreciation; • 46 volunteers were active for MYBODY; • 580 benefactors supported MYBODY with a donation (total proceeds € 43,702,15); • 2,500 persons were involved in (advocacy) activities.

Risks The support base for development cooperation is under pressure. Partly as a result of the financial crisis, the call for economising on international aid gets increasingly loud. People are more and more hesitant to link up with a charity. Although the brand awareness of MYBODY shows a gradual rise and MYBODY appreciation scores are high, the target groups’ willingness to donate lags behind. Competition in the charitable giving market is considerable and it must be assumed that the current crisis will further heighten the pressure.

Strategy WPF has used the MYBODY campaign since 2006 to draw attention to and generate support for SRHR worldwide among the general (particularly female) public. The campaign slogan ‘My life, my choice, MYBODY’ denotes the underlying value on which WPF bases its activities. Making your own decisions about your own sexual life and family planning is the right of all individuals, in developing countries as much as anywhere else.

Thus, they are better able to protect themselves against diseases such as HIV/AIDS and against unplanned pregnancy and Gender-Based Violence.

Furthermore, it gives them a chance to break the cycle of poverty.

MYBODY particularly tries to mobilise women to support projects and to use their talents for the benefit of the campaign. For this purpose, MYBODY is supported by its female Dutch ambassadors Nada van Nie, Kathalijne Buitenweg, Dieuwertje Blok and many other Dutch celebrities who occasionally make an effort for MYBODY. 36 wpf

WPF raises funds among both institutional donors and charitable foundations. The main income consists of donations and subsidies from the Dutch government, the European Union and large donors. WPF would particularly like to raise more large donations by wealthy private individuals and Dutch charitable foundations. The MYBODY campaign focuses on obtaining donations from the general public and on generating funds through third-party acquisition campaigns. WPF adheres to the code of conduct set by the Association of Fundraising Organizations (VFI).

Preview In 2010, the communication departments of WPF and Rutgers Nisso Groep will merge and the communication and fundraising strategy is to be reviewed. In 2010, WPF takes part in three European awareness-raising campaigns ‘Save Women’s Lives’, ‘Reproductive Health for All’ and ‘Who cares about Sophie?’

Activities and results Media campaign Due to decreasing income, there was less money available for communication and publicity. Nevertheless, MYBODY enjoyed good visibility in the media. 99 News items about WPF/MYBODY were published in papers and magazines. Also, two items were broadcast on television and two on radio. The MYBODY advertisement was paid for twice more and subsequently was placed free of charge several times.

Media attention • D utch magazine Opzij paid attention to MYBODY a few times. For instance, the September issue contained an extensive interview with our staff member Sanderijn van der Doef about MYBODY’s efforts in Indonesia.

• Opzij editor in chief Margriet van der Linden acted as jury chairperson for the European Journalist Award for Excellence in Journalism organised by MYBODY. This award was initiated by MYBODY and four similar organisations in Germany, Poland, Spain and Austria. The award is intended for print and Internet journalists in the European Union who write about SRHR and poverty reduction in developing countries. In March, Volkskrant journalist Rob Vreeken was conferred the third prize in Berlin by the German minister of development cooperation.

• In collaboration with the Society for International Development (SID) and the Institute of Social Studies (ISS), MYBODY organised six lectures about ‘The Population Question and Development’. Population growth is often simplistically linked to climate change, the global food crisis, women´s rights, or immigration problems. Well-known lecturers from the Netherlands and abroad gave their views on these interesting issues. The (English-language) lectures were given at the ISS premises in The Hague. Minister for Development Cooperation Koenders gave a speech at the last lecture. Extensive interviews with one of the lecturers

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Three organisations (Rutgers Nisso Groep, MYBODY and CHOICE for youth and sexuality) jointly called an election to determine who was the ‘sexiest’ candidate for European parliament. By means of this activity, which was carried out in eleven EU countries, the organisers drew attention to SRHR and the role the EU plays in that regard. The leading candidate of the Dutch Greens party was the winner and was photographed in a ‘sexy’ way. Various media picked up on this, including Dutch daily newspaper Algemeen Dagblad and the Dutch talkshow De Wereld Draait Door.

In May 2009, a European study tour to Vietnam took place, organised

by MYBODY. Dutch freelance journalist Hanny Roskamp went along and wrote an extensive article for Algemeen Dagblad.

As one of the winners of the European Journalist Award for Excellence in Journalism, Volkskrant journalist Rob Vreeken was invited for a journey to Ethiopia in November 2009. The Volkskrant published his article about this journey on December 28.

From September 2008 till September 2009 one of our communication officers was the ‘Better World Woman’ of Dutch weekly magazine Margriet. Among other things, she wrote a blog on a dedicated website for a year. A special edition of Margriet contained an article about MYBODY’s activities.

Mother’s Night On May 9, the third Mother’s Night was organised in Rotterdam. By means of Mother’s Night, MYBODY, in collaboration with Memisa Cordaid, AMREF Flying Doctors, TNO, NCDO, The Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) and the trade organisations of obstetricians and gynaecologists, draws attention to Millennium Development Goal 5 (improving maternal healthcare). In 2009, the central theme was teenage pregnancies. Author Naema Tahir, cabaret artist Mylou Frencken and singer Hind each made a contribution.

Apart from this national Mother’s Night, various regional Mother’s Nights took place in the provinces Flevoland, Friesland, Groningen, Limburg, Zeeland, Utrecht and North Holland, organised by the provincial COS centres.

In Pakistan, Mother’s Night activities were organised in the four province capitals and in Islamabad. In Belgium, Germany, Hungary and Malta Mother’s Nights were organised as well. We intend to introduce Mother’s Night in ten developing countries in the following years.

Volunteers and special actions In 2009, a total of 46 people made an active effort for the MYBODY campaign.

MYBODY volunteers gave various lectures and organised workshops, about Millennium Development Goal 5, female genital mutilation and population issues, to name but a few subjects. During International Women’s day on March 8, various MYBODY event booths could be found in various locations in the Netherlands. Volunteers provided information and brought in benefactors from the MYBODY booth during other fairs

and events as well. Moreover, there were several sport sponsor activities. For instance, volunteers entered the ‘Fortis Canal Run’ in Utrecht, the ‘Dam to Dam Run’ (Amsterdam to Zaandam), de 7-Hill Run, the Marieken Run and the International Four Day Marches Nijmegen. Furthermore, a ‘Shake your belly’ belly dance workshop was organised for MYBODY. A few volunteers provided support for the assessment of The World Starts With Me. Three meetings with the volunteers were organised in 2009, during which, among other things, the strategy and the annual plan were discussed. WPF has formulated a volunteer policy in which the volunteer’s and WPF’s rights and duties have been laid down.

Fundraising Dutch subsidies In 2009, WPF received a subsidy under the new Cofinancing system (MFS) of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2006, a € 8.1 million subsidy for the 2007– 2010 period was approved. A new application will be prepared in 2010, together with Rutgers Nisso Groep, AMREF Flying Doctors Netherlands, SIMAVI, dance4life International and CHOICE. The Agency for International Business and Cooperation (EVD Internationaal) co-funds a project in China, in the context of which a sexual education programme for young migrant workers in Nanjing (Jiangsu province) is developed. This is a joint project of Rutgers Nisso Groep and WPF, which has been extended till the end of May 2010. Moreover, in 2007, EVD granted a subsidy for the three-year WPF project in Indonesia.

This is an SRHR education programme for blind and deaf secondary school pupils in Jakarta, Bali and Yogyakarta. This project runs till August 31, 2010.

In December 2008, WPF Pakistan received a subsidy from the Dutch embassy in Pakistan for the project ‘Life Skills Based Education for the informal education system’. This project ran from December 2008 till December 2009 and has been extended till March 1, 2010.

In May 2009, the Innovation Fund of PSO approved a contribution to the two-year project ‘Male involvement in the context of intimate partner violence’. At the end of 2009, the Innovation Fund approved the two-year project ‘Peer Educators Become Advocates’ (PEBA). This project is due to start on January 1, 2010.

Dutch Postcode Lottery Since 2002, WPF is a beneficiary of the Dutch Postcode Lottery. As from 2009, the annual contribution to WPF has been doubled from € 500,000 to €1,000,000.

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foundation DoCare, once again organised a successful auction and, together with a group of sympathisers, participated in the Dam to Dam Run. Wilde Ganzen (Wild Geese) foundation likewise supported this project. BenVeh Foundation and Damiano Foundation both contributed to the project for blind and deaf young people in Indonesia and to the project for young people in re-education schools in Vietnam. Liberty Foundation contributed to the World Starts With Me programme in Kenya.

Staff of public broadcasting association VARA made a donation towards the modification of the World Starts With Me for HIV-positive young people in Uganda. In November 2008, the Westberg Foundation granted a subsidy for the evaluation of the World Starts With Me programme in Thailand and Indonesia, which was conducted in 2009. In December 2009, WPF submitted the innovative proposal for the Journey to Adulthood (Vietnam) to this same foundation, which approved it in January 2010.

In 2009, MYBODY received donations from 580 private benefactors. This number lags considerably behind the number of benefactors in 2008 (1484), due to the fact that part of the new benefactors in 2008 made a donation through the handbag activity (lottery) organised by Dutch women’s magazine esta and indicated in 2009 that they did not wish to make donations on a regular basis.

American private funds The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation is the WPF’s primary American sponsor. The Hewlett Foundation is a major investor in the Female Condom consortium that is led by Oxfam Novib and to which the WPF is making an important contribution. The consortium aims at introducing the female condom in various African countries. Our Vietnamese programme is partly supported by the Ford Foundation. The YouAct youth network receives support from the Summit Foundation. The EuroNGO’s Small Grants Facility, initiated by WPF, has been granted support by the David and Lucille Packard Foundation. Moreover, in October 2009, the Packard Foundation approved the three-year project proposal ‘Empowering Girls, transforming Communities’.

Multilateral funds In 2008, the European Commission approved the application for the education campaign ‘Save Women’s Lives’. WPF is leading the consortium that submitted the application. In that context, in 2009, Mother’s Nights were organised in Malta, Hungary and Germany for the first time.

In 2009, WPF was also actively involved in the European education campaign ‘Reproductive Health for All’, which visualises the link between the Millennium Development Goals and SRHR. In 2009, the European Commission approved the application for the project ‘Who cares about Sophie?’ This campaign will start in 2010. Likewise in 2009, the European Commission approved the project ‘Rights-driven Institutionalization of Sexual and Reproductive Health in Pakistan’. Furthermore, WPF receives an annual contribution from the UN Population Fund (UNFPA). In 2009, the World Bank contributed to the project ‘Capacity Building for Pakistani NGO on Gender Based Violence and Reproductive Health’.

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Mother’s Night 2009

Pictures of Mothers Night 2009 in Rotterdam presented by Dieuwertje Blok. Contributions by MP Chantal Gill’ard, writer Naema Tahir, performer Mylou Frencken and singer Hind.

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SPecial actiOnS and FundraiSing

In three years Dorine Wesseling raised over 110,000 euro in funds with her DoCare Foundation. In 2009 for example by organising an auction and by having a team of runners participating in the From Dam to Dam run.

The raised funds are earmarked for ‘The World Starts With Me’ in Uganda.

photos: Noor Bloem and Dorien Wesseling

At the annual ‘Goed Geld Gala’ Marieke van Schaik handed over the cheque of the Dutch Postcode Lottery to Jennifer Jacobs

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VOlunteerS • 1 ‘Shake your Belly’ in the Wilhelmina park in Utrecht • 2 Guiselaine Capella and Irene Drubbel walked 40 km a day during the ‘Walk of the World’ in Nijmegen • 3 Floor de Boer, Celest Houtman, Winnie Gebhardt and Nathalie Sturkenboom took part in the Mariken run in Nijmegen

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6. human resources and organisation Staff policy

Employees and volunteers

Terms of employment WPF adheres to the primary terms and conditions of employment of the Dutch government, and for secondary employment benefits it looks to similar charitable organisations. For employee salaries in the Netherlands, WPF applies the BBRA scales of the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. Auxiliary positions are scaled in scales 7 and 8.

Depending on their seniority, non-management employees are scaled in scales 8 to 11 and managers in scales 13 and 14.

At the end of 2009, the organisation had the following employee numbers: • Head office Utrecht 19.9 FTE • Field office Islamabad, Pakistan 18 FTE • Field office Hanoi, Vietnam 16.6 FTE • Field office Jakarta, Indonesia 8 FTE The number of active volunteers in the Netherlands was 46. The figure for staff turnover in Utrecht was 4. The absence from work percentage was 2.65% (it was 4.91% in 2008).

Staff representation The employees at the head office in Utrecht have chosen a staff representation body that operates within the framework of the Dutch Work Councils Act. In July 2009, two new staff representatives were appointed.

In view of the merger, the staff representation body conferred with the management more intensively than usual, on average once a month, and consulted all the employees five times. The predominant subject of discussion in 2009 was the intended merger with Rutgers Nisso Groep and the possible consequences for staff.

Organisation Chart

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Executive Director

Advocacy

Communications and Fundraising

Finance and Administration

Projects

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Finance

Africa Programme

Campaigns

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Asia Programme

Fundraising

Secretariat

Technical Advise

information dissemination

Human Resources

Hanoi Field Office

Islamabad Field Office

Jakarta Field Office

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Utrecht Management team: MariĂŤtte Flipse (Communications and Fundraising), Dianda Veldman (Ex. Director), Sandra Glorie (Finance and Administration), Henk Rolink (Overseas Projects Department) and Yvonne Bogaarts (Advocacy)

Employees of the Indonesian Field office

Pakistani officers of the Islamabad Field office

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7. statement of responsibilities for 2009 Organisational objectives The World Population Foundation (WPF) pursues the following organisational objectives: • Continuous quality improvement. The following aspects, among others, play an important role in this: external financial audit, CBF hallmark, external evaluations and, from the end of 2010, ISO certification; • Five percent annual growth in financial terms and a healthy financial position aimed at continuity. In view of the worldwide economic depression, this general objective has been adjusted to zero growth for the year 2010; • Efficiency: a maximum of 9 percent management and administration costs; • Relevance of service: knowing and anticipating the demand of the target groups; • Good employership, to be measured by turnover and absence from work; • Good reputation, to be measured by (continued) funding and collaborative links.

Management and supervision From the various models for the good management of charitable organisations put forward by the Wijffels Code, WPF has worked with a supervisory management model for years. To comply with the separation between management and supervision even better, in November 2009, the board was converted into a Supervisory Board, which involved an amendment to the articles of association*.

The Supervisory Board oversees decision-making and implementation and confirms the main features of the policy. The executive director is responsible for policy and fulfilment. On behalf of the Supervisory Board, an audit committee monitors the finances and internal processes. Once every three months, this committee holds a meeting with the management and the controller. The presidium meets twice a year, is responsible for establishing the terms and conditions of employment and makes preparations for the appointment of new Supervisory Board members.

The Supervisory Board´s regulations describe further rules for the performance of this supervising body. Furthermore, there are regulations for the audit committee, the presidium and the executive director.

For most of 2009, the board consisted of ten members. As from November, this number was reduced to seven. Reasons for this were the departure of three members, the conversion to a Supervisory Board and the intended merger. Board members may serve three terms of three years at most. The Supervisory Council itself (re)appoints the members and the executive director, and from its midst appoints the chairperson * In this paragraph the terms ‘board’ and ‘Supervisory Board’ are used alternately.

In its meeting of October 2009, the WPF board decided to convert into a Supervisory Board. Where activities up to October 2009 are reported, the term ‘board’ is used and where general starting points are concerned that were adopted at the same time as the conversion in October 2009, the term ‘Supervisory Board’ is used.

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and the members of the audit committee and the presidium. Supervisory Board members receive no remuneration; only foreign members are reimbursed for the travel and accommodation costs incurred while attending meetings. Once a year, the Supervisory Board performs a formal evaluation of the executive director.

Long-range plan In 2006 the Board adopted the Strategic Plan 2007-2010. This document is available to external interested parties upon request. Employees and field offices contributed to this long-range plan in 2006, as did some partner organisations and donors. In 2008, WPF has consulted these parties once again. The results of this consultation were included in the strategic principles that WPF and Rutgers Nisso Groep jointly drew up in 2009 in the context of the intended merger.

Annual plan and budget For each year, the (Supervisory) Board adopts an annual plan and budget.

The annual plan contains an update of the situation analysis, adjusts the policy and planned activities if needed, sets the indicators used to measure results and establishes the levels that will be required at the end of the year in question. In this annual report, these aspects can be found in the various programme chapters. The budgets for the reporting year and for the coming year are presented in the financial reporting.

(Supervisory) Board in 2009 Composition Under the regulations, WPF’s supervising body should match the following profile: a balance between men and women, government, private sector, NGOs, science and young people and a representation from developing countries. For most of 2009, all these groups were represented by the board. The three board members departing at the end of October were not succeeded in view of the intended merger. The consequence was that for the last two months of 2009, the Supervisory Board consisted of seven members, including two women. Unfortunately, during these two months, the Supervisory Board held no members from developing countries. However, this hiatus will be bridged as soon as possible.

Changes in 2009 Melanie Schultz van Haegen acted as Chair throughout 2009. In the board meeting of April 2009 the board took leave of former Chair Joris Voorhoeve. In the meeting of October 2009, the board took leave of three members: Nafis Sadik (working in the USA), Ellen Themmen (working in Bangladesh) and Rose Gawaya (working in South Africa).

Supervisory Board World Population Foundation as at December 31, 2009 Name / Board position / job title / additional functions / year of appointment / end of term • Drs. Melanie H. Schultz van Haegen, Chair and Presidium member Director Zorginkoop Achmea Zorg, former Vice Minister Public Works and Water management, Chair Supervisory Board Stichting Jeugd en Samenleving Rijnland, Chair Supervisory Board Stichting Beeld en Geluid Hilversum, Chair Commissie van Bijstand Veerstichting / 2007 / February 2012 • Drs. Wouter A. Meijer, Vice-Chair and Audit Committee member Former Executive Director of WPF, former staff member of the World Bank / 2003 / February 2012 • Sybren Kalkman, Audit Committee and Presidium member Former partner of KPMG Accountants/ board member of various cultural and charitable organisations / 2004 / February 2013 • Roy W. Brown Founder of the World Population Foundation / Former President of the International Humanist and Ethical Union / 1987 / Member for an unlimited term • Prof. dr. Inge Hutter Professor of Demography and Vice-Dean Research at the Spatial Sciences Faculty of the University of Groningen / 2004 / February 2011 • Mr Cees J.A. van Lede Former Chair of the Board of Management of Akzo Nobel, former Chair of the Confederation of Dutch Business (VNO), member of the Supervisory Board of various international companies / 2003 / February 2012 • Mr Erik Thijs Wedershoven Former Dutch youth representative for the United Nations, member of Worldconnectors / 2006 / February 2013

Meetings, supervisory activities in 2009 In 2009, the board met twice. In its meeting in October, the board decided to convert into a Supervisory Board, including the change of the articles of associations and regulations this entails. In September, board members introduced themselves to and exchanged ideas with Supervisory Board members of Rutgers Nisso Groep.

The main subjects the board discussed in its meetings were the annual report of 2008, progress in 2009, decision-making regarding the merger with Rutgers Nisso Groep and the resulting decisions, such as the strategic principles of the combined organisation, the governance structure, discussing the articles of associations for the new organisation, the name of the new organisation, the appointment of a new executive director who will also manage the merged organisation, the annual plan and the budget for 2010. Moreover, in the meeting in October, the board evaluated its performance. The board decisions and the reports had been prepared and supplied with advice by the permanent board committee.

Consequently, the board could confine itself to critical evaluation in broad outline, as may be expected from a supervising board. The executive director and the management team members were present at these meetings.

M. H. Schultz van Haegen

W.A. Meijer

S. Kalkman

R.W. Brown

I. Hutter

C.J.A. van Lede

E.T. Wedershoven

Moreover, the permanent board committee held four meetings with the management on quarterly reports, human resources, organisation and quality management, as well as on all the issues that were laid before the entire board, as mentioned above. These board members regularly consult all the members of the management team. The minutes of the permanent board committee meetings were sent to the entire board for information purposes.

Furthermore, individual board members lent valuable support to the management, managers and staff in their own specialist areas throughout the year. This support consisted in passing on important contacts and information, pointing out relevant meetings, introducing WPF to relevant external parties and giving advice, both at request and on their own initiative.

All these intermediate first-hand contacts show deep involvement and strengthen the supervisory potential of the Board.

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External supervision External auditors exercise control and report directly to the board. Their report on 2009 is available at request. The three field offices are controlled by authorised local accountants. Likewise, partner organisations receiving over € 50.000 a year from WPF must submit a certificate by an external auditor.

WPF successfully renewed its entitlement to the CBF hallmark for charitable organisations. In addition, various large donors, particularly the Dutch government, exercise supervision on the basis of detailed reporting regulations and, occasionally, additional auditor's certificates.

All the reports the World Population Foundation submitted in 2009 were approved and resulted in continuation of the relevant subsidies and other funds.

Board, management team, projects commission and management field offices Executive/Managing director During the first six months of 2009, Frans Baneke held the position of executive director. He retired in September. As from July 1, Dianda Veldman succeeded him. She is also the managing director of Rutgers Nisso Groep and has been appointed the future executive director of the merged organisation by both supervising bodies. She was paid a salary by Rutgers Nisso Groep. Frans Baneke received a salary in accordance with scale 16 of the Dutch national government. In 2009, the total costs of this position came to € 71,644 gross, including holiday allowance and excluding employer’s contributions to pension and social security.

Mr Baneke did not receive any bonuses. In 2009, he had two additional, unsalaried functions. He was secretary of Partos, the national platform of Dutch development NGOs. Also, he was a member of the European Advisory Group of Catholics for Choice (CFC), an American NGO. In 2009, he advised the Advisory Council on International Affairs with regard to its report Demographic Changes and Development Cooperation. In the past, WPF’s Supervisory Board has based payment on compatible salaries in central government and the charity sector. In 2010, the payment policy will be updated in view of the merger and taking into account the guidelines of the Association of Fundraising Organizations (VFI) as well as Cofinancing (MFS) II subsidy regulations.

Management team and projects commission Day-to-day decision-making is a collective activity that takes place in the management team. In 2009, this team consisted of the executive director and the heads of four departments. As a rule, the management team meets every other week. The English-language minutes of these meetings, excepting personal decisions, are available to all staff at head office and the field offices. The management team also acted as a projects committee, assessing and approving project proposals in the context of project cycle management.

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Quality management ISO certification In view of the intended merger with Rutgers Nisso Groep, WPF´s aim to start preparing for ISO certification in 2009 has been postponed until the beginning of 2010. Nevertheless, WPF still stands by its intention to attain certification by the end of 2010.

New policy Since WPF is the lead agency for an alliance in the context of the Cofinancing (MFS) II subsidy, in 2009, policy documents were adopted or revised with regard to the following fields: • Sanctioning policy; • Code of conduct; • Internal fraud policy; • External fraud policy; • Partner policy; • Complaints procedure for the general public; • Complaints procedure for other groups; • Diversity policy.

Evaluation The quality manager is responsible for the internal audit. Besides, the progress of all the project interventions is monitored and we learn from the findings. In 2009, the first large-scale evaluation of our sexuality education method took place in four countries.

Complaints procedure WPF has a procedure for handling complaints made by benefactors and other involved parties, which has been published on the MYBODY website. In 2009, three complaints were received. One complaint was related to Minister Rouvoet being present at the World Congress of Families (WCF). Two persons were offended by the MYBODY advertising campaign in which MYBODY refers to the freedom Dutch women have to choose whether or not to have a child, as opposed to many developing countries where women have little or no access to contraception or good healthcare. The complainers argued that not everybody in the Netherlands has that choice due to medical causes.

Risks and risk management The instruments of quality management are also intended to make risks manageable. WPF manages risks by means of: • The application of Intervention Mapping to the development of project activities – this method is aimed at systematically knowing the wishes of the target groups in all the stages of intervention; • Ongoing feedback through monitoring and evaluation. Since 2007, monitoring has run largely parallel to the ‘Tailor-made Monitoring Protocol’ that has been arranged with the Dutch government as a condition for its Cofinancing (MFS) subsidy, the indicators of which have been

mentioned in the project survey; • Prudent project cycle management (standard PCM system) and financial policy; • A management information system with indicators relating to the various organisational objectives; good HR policy that aims at building competences; • Regular adjustment of strategy and policy in dialogue with all the stakeholders on the basis of up-to-date environmental analyses and recent experiences.

Field offices

www.mybody.nl focuses on the general public (16,185 visits in 2009), while the English-language website www.wpf.org is more specifically intended for professional partners and business contacts (26,874 visits in 2009). Three times a year, the MYBODY label publishes a print newsletter (1,800 subscribers at the end of 2009), and four times a year, a digital newsletter is issued (1,630 subscribers at the end of 2009).

WPF e-mails its employees and volunteers an internal newsletter every other week. The programme staff members of the Projects department maintain personal contacts with partner organisations. The volunteers are kept informed of relevant developments by e-mail and during the volunteer meetings. Moreover, staff is kept informed of the latest development and progress in planned activities through quarterly reports.

The three field offices are recognised locally as agencies of an international NGO and, as such, are permitted to have staff and manage finances.

The three managers, who are also WPF representatives, are appointed by the WPF head office and report to the head of the Overseas Project Department (OPD) who also exercises supervision. They apply all WPF’s standard systems, such as Project Management Cycle and Intervention Mapping. They operate with allocated annual budgets, including locally raised funds. Their finances are audited by local external accountants and are consolidated in WPF’s financial statements. They are permitted to accept funds independently and approve projects up to a maximum of € 50,000 per project. When sums exceed this figure, the projects are submitted to the above-mentioned projects committee.

In 2009, Nathalie Kollmann resigned as WPF representative in Indonesia, after a highly successful employment of eleven years, the last two years of which she worked as the Country Representative for WPF Indonesia. In close consultation with the field office staff, the Indonesian Sri Kusyuniati was appointed as her successor.

Communication with stakeholders WPF’s stakeholders are: • benefactors, donors (institutional and private) and sponsors; • employees and volunteers, including board members and employees in the field offices; • partner organisations; • civil society organisations with similar or complementary objectives; • national and international governments and policymakers; • the general public.

Apart from the specific reports sent to institutional donors, WPF offers complete reporting and accountability in its annual report. This is widely distributed and made available online. We also dwell on the annual figures and results in a special edition of the MYBODY newsletter.

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8. finances

Income policy Since 2007, the Cofinancing (MFS) subsidy granted by the Dutch government has become the primary source of income for WPF. Under certain conditions, this subsidy will remain available up to and including 2010.

As the lead agency in an alliance, WPF has submitted an application for the Cofinancing (MFS) II subsidy programme for the period 2011-2015. As from 2009, the subsidy is conditional on the acquisition of at least 25% from other funds. In 2009, WPF acquired 65% in other funding.

WPF aims at diversification of income sources, to become less dependent on a single source. Apart from the Dutch Postcode Lottery, from which WPF annually receives € 1,000,000 under conditions, the primary donor groups are: American private foundations (formerly WPF's primary source of income), multilateral organisations (the World Bank, UNFPA, the European Commission), as well as private charitable foundations and private benefactors in the Netherlands. Moreover, field offices raise funds locally. This fits in well with the fact that more and more international benefactors are working through agencies in developing countries.

Lastly, WPF has entered into a number of cooperation agreements with development organisations, invariably at the request and for the benefit of their partner organisations in developing countries.

Investment policy WPF invests surplus liquidity in such a way that the principal remains intact and interest is maximised. Currency risks are minimised by regular cash flow prognoses in the various currencies – for the most part euros and dollars.

Policy re reserves and funds WPF applies the policy of spending financial resources as quickly and efficiently as possible, with due observance of forming a continuity reserve.

This reserve is meant to safeguard the continuity of the organisation, cover risks and provide working capital. As from 2008, the assets are not longer financed by an appropriated reserve; henceforth, they are funded from the continuity reserve and the working capital.

A potential risk might be that WPF’s annual income is halved due to the loss of a major financial resource. Therefore, in the long run, WPF strives to accumulate unrestricted net equity capable of covering eight months’ worth of fixed costs, including the fixed costs of the Asian field offices, in order to be able to keep the downsized organisation running for twelve months, following a substantial drop in income. Forming such a reserve is in accordance with the Charity Reserves Guideline of the VFI and the regulations of the CBF-Seal of approval for charitable organisations.

It is expected that the merged organisation Rutgers WPF can resume adding resources to the reserve from 2010, in order to strengthen this reserve.

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Results in 2009 Income The World Population Foundation’s income has increased by 20.7% compared to 2008 (€ 5.6 million versus € 4.7 million). This increase is 18% higher than was estimated. The increase is mainly due to the fact that in the beginning of 2010, the Dutch Postcode Lottery promised WPF to double the annual contribution of € 500,000 as from 2009. This income has been recorded in 2009, in accordance with guideline 650 of the Dutch Accounting Standards Board. WPF has transferred this promised extra income to an appropriated reserve to spend on the objective in the future.

The income growth is also thanks to the contribution the European Commission has made after approving two new projects.

The income from private donations and contributions has not grown compared to 2008, partly because WPF did not invest in a media campaign for MYBODY for cost considerations.

Expenditure for the objectives Out of the total expenditure of € 5.1 million, € 4.7 million (84.0% of the total income) was spent directly on WPF´s objectives (estimate 2009: 89.9%, 2008: 91.9%). The lower percentage of expenditure for the objective of 84.0% is influenced by the extra income of € 500.000 promised by the Dutch Postcode Lottery. Since this amount of money could not be spent in 2009, an appropriated reserve has been formed for this promise.

Thanks to decreasing the fundraising costs and maintaining the estimated percentage for management and administration costs, WPF managed to spend more money on the objectives than estimated.

Education/awareness-raising Part of the activities for the benefit of education/awareness-raising are executed by our own staff. Furthermore, WPF collaborates with various European partners within several projects. A number of collaboration projects are aimed at organisational strengthening of the (Eastern European) partners, in view of the ultimate purpose of building the support base for development cooperation.

In 2009, the expenditure for education/awareness-raising was kept on the same level as in 2008. Compared to the budget, the expenditure increased, thanks to approval of a project by the European Commission which had not been foreseen when the budget was drawn up.

Structural help The lion’s share of the activities is taken up by local partners. Apart from that, the project expenses include the costs of activities executed

by WPF itself: supervision, technical assistance and monitoring and

evaluation. The expenses incurred by the three Asian field offices are included in the respective country portfolios. These country portfolios are funded in part by WPF Netherlands and partly by funds raised locally.

Fund-raising expenses In 2008, the organisation recruited a fundraiser (0.5 FTE). Apart from the expenses for the fundraiser there has been expenditure for fundraising activities. Since discretionary funds fell short of expectations there was less budget available for fundraising than estimated. This explains the lower percentage of fundraising costs (2009: 4.2%, estimate 2009: 9.0%, actual 2008: 6.6%).

Management and administration costs The percentage of management and administration costs amounts to 7.8% (estimate 2009: 8.5%, 2008: 7.9%) of the total costs. This equals 3.6 FTE. The activities of the board, the management and two thirds of the duties of finance and administration are being executed within the scope of management and administration.

The duties of the Projects, Advocacy and Communication departments and one third of the duties of the finance and administration department can be directly charged to the WPF objectives.

The percentage of management and administration costs is lower than estimated, since WPF generated income growth without expanding its management capacity.

The standard which WPF employs for the management and administration costs amounts to 9%. This standard has been established on the basis of the various factors influencing the WPF organisation: project portfolio, donor diversity, the scale on which WPF executes activities, and the like.

The set percentage has been checked against, among other things, the average the average percentage applied within the benchmark (mediumsized 9.6%, as published in the findings of the ‘Transparant Prijs 2009’ (2009 Transparency Award for charitable organisation)).

Variance analysis: actual amounts incurred compared to budget

On the other hand, WPF spent more money on the objective. This overspending is due to the fact that before-mentioned grant for projects funded by the European Commission entailed that WPF itself was to make a contribution of 25%. In 2009, no funding was yet received from third parties for WPF’s contribution to one of these projects. This investment from the discretionary funds had not been budgeted.

Due to the limited amount of discretionary funds available to WPF, the fundraising budget was frozen in 2009. This resulted in costs saving.

One-off expenditure The result is affected for the amount of € 50,098 by an accelerated depreciation of the renovation at Vinkenburgstraat in Utrecht. Early in 2010, WPF left this office building; in view of the intended merger with Rutgers Nisso Groep (RNG), the organisation moved to Oudenoord in Utrecht.

Liquidity position The liquidity with € 1.549.000 at the bank and in hand at the end of the financial year is more than sufficient for WPF to meet its liabilities.

This position falls short of the liquidity position a year before, since the advance on the Cofinancing (MFS) subsidy for 2009 was received at the end of 2008. The advance on 2010 was only transferred to WPF’s account in 2010.

Preview / budget 2010 The basis for the intended merger between WPF and RNG is the logical synergy between the national and international activities of both organisations. An additional effect of the merger is that the new organisation will become stronger financially: the merger between WPF and RNG will result in further diversification of income resources.

Furthermore, in an alliance with Rutgers Nisso Groep, AMREF Flying Doctors, CHOICE, dance4life and Simavi, WPF submitted an application for Cofinancing (MFS) II. At the end of March 2010, it became known that the alliance has been admitted to the second application round. As a result, it may be expected that this subsidy from the Dutch Ministry of foreign affairs will continue to constitute a major income source in future.

In 2010, Rutgers WPF will adhere to the standard for the 2010 spending percentages that currently apply to WPF.

The total of income and expenditure results in a budget surplus in 2009 of € 489,000 (estimated: € nil), of which € 11,000 has been charged to the continuity reserve and € 500,000 has been transferred to an appropriated reserve.

The main causes of the 2009 surplus are explained below: Income has increased (as compared to budget and 2008) by the beforementioned grants by the Dutch Postcode Lottery and the European Commission. These two grants had not been budgeted.

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9. financial report 2009 Balance sheet as at December 31, 2009 in Euro

Assets

December 31, 2009

December 31, 2008

Intangible fixed assets Tangible fixed assets

42,311 44,037

44,284 121,380

86,348

165,664

Receivables, pre-payments and accrued income 1,616,843 741,382

Cash and cash equivalents 1,549,160 2,184,380

3,166,003

Total 3,252,351

2,925,762

3,091,426

Liabilities Reserves and funds Reserves

- continuity reserve 730,598 741,246 - appropriated reserve Dutch Postcode Lottery,

Expenditure for the objective 500,000

1,230,598 741,246

Current liabilities 2,021,753 2,350,180

Total 3,252,351 3,091,426

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Summary statement of income and expenditure for 2009 in Euro

Actual 2009

Budget 2009

Actual 2008

Income

Direct fundraising income 817,439 868,907

Income from joint campaigns 208,126 254,886

Income from third-party campaigns 1,400,857 777,873

Government subsidies 3,191,636 2,877,843

Income from investments 21,148 -

Total income 5,639,206 4,779,509

830,006 87,126 1,109,978 2,617,346 26,125 4,670,581

Expenditure Allocated to objectives

Education/Awareness-raising 1,367,443 1,110,696 1,328,037

Structural aid 3,346,278 3,185,498 2,963,722

4,713,721 4,296,194 4,291,759 Fundraising income

- Direct fundraising costs 34,388 77,868 54,875

34,388 77,868 54,875

Management and administration

- Management and administration costs 401,745 405,447 374,863

Total expenditure 5,149,854 4,779,509 4,721,497

Result 489,352 - -50,916

Profit

or loss appropriation 2009

- continuity reserve - Appropriated reserve Dutch Postcode Lottery expenditure for objective

Result 2009

-10,648

-

50,916

500,000

-

-

489,352

-

-50,916

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Cash flow statement for 2009 in Euro

2009

2008

Cash flow from operational activities Result Depreciations Mutation working capital (excluding liquid assets)

489,352 104,925 -1,203,888

-50,916 28,633 947,124

-609,611

924,841

Cash flow from investment activities

Investments in: Intangible fixed assets -13,732 Tangible fixed assets -11,877

-25,609

Movement liquid assets -635,220

-17,374 -28,186 -45,560

879,281

Liquid assets at the end of the financial year 1,549,160 Liquid assets at the start of the financial year 2,184,380

Movement liquid assets -635,220

2,184,380 1,305,099

879,281

The financial overview in this report is based on the 2008 financial statements which have been audited by our accountant KPMG. The complete 2007 financial statements and the auditors report are both available at request.

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we would like to express our gratitude to our donors • Dutch Postcode Lottery • The Netherlands Ministery of Foreign Affairs • The Netherlands Ministery of Economic Affairs (Agentschap NL EVD Internationaal) • European Commission • The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation • The World Bank • United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) • Stichting De Westberg • The Summit Foundation • Bernard van Leer Foundation • Council of Europe • Damiano Fund • Stichting DoCare • Ford Foundation • Oxfam Novib

• The David and Lucile Packard Foundation • Marie Stopes International • Educaids, a Christian Alliance on Education and HIV/AIDS of Dutch organisations – ICCO/ KerkinActie, Edukans, Prisma, ADRA and ZGG, and their partners in the South.

• Stop Aids Now! • Stichting Liberty • International Planned Parenthood Federation – European Network • Employees of Broadcasting company VARA (1 mei gift) • New Venture Fund • Dutch Embassy in Pakistan and to our private donors!

In memoriam Herman Schaalma Herman Schaalma passed away suddenly on Saturday July 25, 2009. Schaalma was employed at Maastricht University and worked with WPF for years in the fields of sexuality education for young people, Intervention Mapping and the evaluation of The World Starts With Me. For WPF he personified a scientist who had, as he put it himself, ‘his feet in the clay’. He kept us up-to-date and on the right track. Working with him was always a real treat. This collaboration did not just spell thoroughness, but also a lot of fun and companionableness. We shall keep missing him.

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CREDITS ANNUAL REPORT 2009 MAY 2010 Editors Communications Department WPF Translation Josee Koning (de Taalscholver) Cover picture Fleur Koning (Indonesian boys) Design Studio Zipper, The Hague Print Mewadruk, Hilversum The annual report 2009 is printed on recyclable paper, free of chloride

World Population Foundation

Oudenoord 176-178 3513 EV Utrecht Postbus 9022 3506 GA Utrecht E-mail: office@wpf.org Website: www.wpf.org , www.mybody.nl Postbank 254, Utrecht Bank 49.63.23.822

At the end of 2010 Rutgers Nisso Groep and World Population Foundation will enter into a merger under the name of Rutgers WPF. This is a translation of a Dutch language document. In the event of a dispute the original documents shall prevail.

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The work of World Population Foundation is supported by the participants of the Dutch Postcode Lottery.