FIVE YEARS PLAN

ACTION PLAN

I Couples

1 Bring the member associations to strengthen their capacity in natural family planning (NFP), and family life education.

a) Help each member association to make available the following services:

- Information ,awarness and formation of different groups.

- Supervision and evaluation of services.

- Organization of structures for program managing .

b) Bring each member association to:

- Create an appropriate organisation for the functioning of services.

- Training of human resources.

- Organize special training at all levels

- Set up appropriate teaching materials, didactic, administrative and mediatic support

- obtain the necessary financial support for the association activities.

2 Bring the member associations to organize training and listening services in the field of prevention of HIV/AIDS and to help people infected and affected by the disease.

- Organize training sessions and follow-up.

- Elaborate appropriate teaching and managing tools.

3 Promote exclusive breast-feeding and LAM.

In areas of poverty, exclusive breast-feeding has been proved as being the best option both for negative and positive HIV mothers. So a campaign of promotion for the change of attitude replacing the usual practice of mixed feeding by an exclusive breast-feeding for the first six months of life is a very good option in this type of context. It has also been shown that this kind of attitude can be best obtained by the setting up an important support at the level of the population and with each mother, both before and during the post-partum. With this aim in view, AFLF proposes to help member’s associations to:

- Organise information campaign on exclusive breast-feeding.

- Organise an action plan to support exclusive breast-feeding.

- Elaborate a strategy to promote behavioural change in this context.

- Organise wide-ranging information on the advantages of exclusive breast-feeding, especially in the context of poverty.

- Promote in the environment a cultural and attitude change from partial to exclusive breast-feeding.

- Make the socio-political leaders aware of the interest of such a change of attitude.

- Draw up teaching material and appropriate evaluation tools.

- Draw up an appropriate method for the dual effect of low transmission of HIV/AIDS and amenorrhea (Lactation of Amenorrhea Method - LAM).

- Organise structures and an action plan (training and supervision of educators, management, evaluation) for the setting up of a functional programme on exclusive breast-feeding.

II THE YOUTH

The youth represent a significant percentage of the African population.In the present context of the continent the youth are very vulnerable to HIV/AIDS. . Furthermore, the wide-spreading HIV/AIDS on the continent has already caused unprecedented damages. The member associations of AFLF cannot remain indifferent to this situation. They undertake to get more generously involved by developing programmes of avoidance and fight against HIV/AIDS.

Education for life and love, avoidance and fight against HIV/AIDS

- Organize during the next two years two training seminars for youth trainers in each of its linguistic zones (French-speaking, English-speaking, Luso-speaking) each grouping about sixty participants.

- Set up, in each linguistic zone, a pilot project for youth.

- Create technical assistance for the training and evaluation of the programmes.

- Support member’s associations to obtain funds for developing these projects.

- Help member associations to work in a professional way in the following activities:

i. Organisation of seminars for education in life and love.

ii. Training of trainers for street youth.

iii. Follow-up and supervision of groups of young people

- Develop specific and integrated teaching approaches for the prevention and campaign against HIV/AIDS, aimed at changing the attitude and integrating values based on solid anthropologic foundations, sustained by programmes (Love matters, Teen Star, Education for Life ad Youth Alive groups, True Love Waits).

- Organise an action plan for the training of specialised trainers and the follow-up and evaluation of programmes of prevention and campaign against HIV/AIDS in favour of the young people.

- Develop appropriate work tools in the context of prevention and campaign against HIV/AIDS and propose concrete actions for young people and with young people, with governments and various social groups.

III HIV/AIDS

Given the catastrophic situation in African countries as regards of the infection and the socio-cultural consequences of HIV/AIDS, the member associations of AFLF undertake to integrate in their usual activities, in favour of couples and youth, a specialised branch of prevention and fight against HIV/AIDS.

IV THE SUPPORTS

With the aim of consolidating performances of the member associations, the Coordinating Committee has proposed the following support (to be confirmed by the General Assembly of Johannesburg in April 2004):

1 Creation of a scientific committee able to play the following role:

- Prepare for FAAF/AFLF scientific documents for the scientific, medical, paramedical personnel and financing agencies

- Initiate scientific works within the association and planning of their evolution

- Set up and diffuse the recent scientific results in the various fields of our activities

- Examine for the benefit of FAAF/AFLF the subjects of conferences proposed for its members and suggest recommendations adapted to the scientific plan.

2 Setting up of Advertising tools

· Develop strategy do be recognised by governments, private sectors, churches, sponsors and the public.