Building Partnerships to Reduce Youth HIV Risk in Africa

描述(申请人提供)：在撒哈拉以南非洲，社会科学研究的基础设施极其脆弱。在拟议的项目中，艾伦·古特马赫研究所将向两个研究中心提供更多与艾滋病毒相关的研究方面的专业知识和能力，这两个研究中心将就其资助的研究项目进行合作。这两个中心分别是肯尼亚内罗毕的APHRC研究中心和布基纳法索的UERD研究中心。 将在研究项目中增加能力建设活动，其目标是改进 青少年预防艾滋病毒感染的能力。这些活动将加强这两个中心，还将加强和利用研究项目的工作。拟开展的活动包括：a)在研究项目中增加三个综合培训讲习班，扩大研究和交流方面的专门知识，增加在亚太人权委员会和AGI的实习机会，并增加通信技术方面的培训；b)在亚太人权委员会，牵头组织增加的三个讲习班，增加其提供培训的专门知识，提高关于青年和艾滋病毒预防的比较分析的技能，并提高在区域一级交流研究成果的技能。对这两个组织来说，该项目将为一些基础设施需求提供支助，主要是计算机和互联网连接。该项目还具有提高亚太人权委员会作为一个区域组织的知名度和知名度，并加强乌勒颇大学作为布基纳法索公认的中心的长期优势。 这些活动将直接增加乌鲁木齐大学和人权理事会的专门知识和能力，并将以它们现有的技能为基础，帮助为它们的长期实力和可持续性奠定基础。扩大的活动还将增加研究项目对政策和方案产生影响的潜力，并改善撒哈拉以南非洲青年中艾滋病毒的预防。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In Sub-Saharan Africa, the infrastructure for social science research is extremely fragile. In the proposed project, The Alan Guttmacher Institute would provide increased expertise and capacity in HIV-related research to two research centers that will collaborate on its funded research project. These two centers are APHRC, a research center in Nairobi, Kenya and UERD, a research center in Burkina Faso. Capacity-building activities would be added to the Research Project, whose goal is to improve adolescents' ability to prevent HIV infection. These activities would strengthen the two centers and would also enhance and leverage the work of the Research Project. The proposed activities include: a) For UERD, expanding expertise in research and communication by adding three comprehensive training workshops to the Research Project, adding internships with APHRC and AGI, and increasing training in communication techniques; b) For APHRC, taking a lead role in organizing the three added workshops and increasing their expertise in providing training, increasing skills in comparative analysis on youth and HIV prevention, and increasing skills in communicating research findings at the regional level. For both organizations, this project would provide support for some infrastructural needs, principally for computers and internet connectivity. This project would also have the long-term advantage of raising the visibility and profile of APHRC as a regional organization and strengthening UERD as a recognized center in Burkina Faso. These activities would directly increase the expertise and capacity of UERD and APHRC and will build on their existing skills to help construct a foundation for their long-term strength and sustainability. The expanded activities would also increase the potential of the Research Project to have an impact on policy and programs and to improve prevention of HIV among youth in Sub-Saharan Africa.