Building Partnerships to Reduce Youth HIV Risk in Africa

描述（由申请人提供）：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，Alan Guttmacher研究所将向两个研究中心提供更多的艾滋病毒相关研究的专业知识和能力，这两个研究中心将在其资助的研究项目上进行合作。 这两个中心分别是位于肯尼亚内罗毕的研究中心APHRC和位于布基纳法索的研究中心UERD。 将在研究项目中增加能力建设活动，其目标是改善 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，也将加强和利用研究项目的工作。 （a）就研究和发展股而言，通过在研究项目中增加三个综合培训讲习班，增加与亚太人权委员会和AGI的实习机会，以及增加通信技术培训，扩大研究和通信方面的专门知识; B）对亚太人权委员会而言，在组织三个新增讲习班方面发挥主导作用，并增强其在提供培训方面的专门知识，提高对青年和艾滋病毒预防进行比较分析的技能，并提高在区域一级传播研究结果的技能。 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。 这一项目的长期好处还在于提高了亚太人权委员会作为一个区域组织的知名度和形象，并加强了经济发展研究所作为布基纳法索一个公认中心的地位。 这些活动将直接增加经济发展局和亚太人权委员会的专门知识和能力，并将利用其现有的技能，帮助为它们的长期力量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艾滋病毒的预防工作。

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.