In 2022 Pact enlisted Futures Without Violence (FUTURES) is to implement the Coaching Boys Into Men (CBIM) program throughout Tanzania by way of technical assistance and guidance working with local civil society organizations (CSO’s) in six regions of the country. This was a scaled up continuation of USAID-funded ACHIEVE Project, (Adolescents and Children, HIV Incidence Reduction, Empowerment, and Virus Elimination (ACHIEVE), led by Pact, to implement gender-based violence prevention and reduction programs in Tanzania. Milestones to target for all six (6) outlined regions were set to reach 127,931 boys and 697 coaches by September of 2022. The efforts surpassed those goals and by September of 2022, 961 coaches were trained and equipped with skills necessary to promote respectful behavior among their players and help prevent relationship abuse, harassment and sexual assault. To date this USAID ACHIEVE project has reached 130,035 adolescent boys ages 9-14 across 12 councils in Tanzania.
FUTURES supported the oversight of three main activities to be implemented by Master Trainers as follows:
- CBIM training (TOT) to 16 ACHIEVE project staff and certification of those that meet the criteria to become Coaches Clinic Facilitators;
- Monitoring and capacity-building to the Coaches Clinic Facilitators during the cascade of training to CBIM coaches and related councils;
- Monitoring/supervising of Master Trainers supporting Coaches Clinic Facilitators who train coaches for roll-out of the intervention to the athletes. The program was designed to increase positive bystander behaviors and attitudes through sports to reduce the perpetration of violence against children (particularly girls and women) through social norms change, ultimately reducing the risk of HIV infection among adolescent girls who have experienced or are at risk of experiencing violence.
Tanzania 2020
In 2020 Pact, an international nonprofit that works in nearly 40 countries to help build solutions for human development that are evidence-based, data-driven, and owned by the communities that they serve, invited FUTURES to implement the Coaching Boys Into Men (CBIM) program throughout Tanzania by way of technical assistance and guidance working with local civil society organizations (CSO’s) in six regions of the country. This was a scaled up effort continuation of the USAID-, FUTURES joined World Vision, Inc. (WV) to support a multi-country scale-up of CBIM in PEPFAR’s Faith and Community Initiative (FCI) countries. The countries participating in this initiative included Botswana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. This initiative was supported by the Pact ACHIEVE (Adolescents and Children, HIV Incidence reduction, Empowerment, and Virus Elimination) project. The program helped increase positive bystander behaviors and attitudes through sports to reduce the perpetration of violence against children (particularly girls and women) through social norms change, ultimately reducing the risk of HIV infection among adolescent girls who have experienced or are at risk of experiencing violence. The project’s main activities are to train a cohort of Master Trainers and provide supportive supervision to IPs in CBIM implementation. FUTURES trained a cohort of 19 Master Trainers during a 5 day CBIM Training of Trainers (TOT) Workshop in Johannesburg, South Africa. The CBIM card series were translated in five of the countries in a total of nine local languages (Setswana, Sesotho, Chichewa, Lozi, Tonga, Nyanja, Bemba, Ndebele and Shona).
Tanzania 2019
In the Fall of 2019, FUTURES partnered with World Vision Tanzania to advance the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief’s (PEPFAR) objective of reducing sexual violence and HIV among very young adolescents in Tanzania’s Southern Highland Region (SHR). In carrying out this overall project objective, FUTURES developed a plan to implement CBIM in the Mbeya and Songwe regions where the HIV prevalence is higher than the national average with 9.3% for Mbeya, and 5.8% for Songwe. During a four day training, FUTURES trained 60 participants from three Faith Based Organizations (FBO), World Vision Tanzania, Igogwe Mission Hospital, and Caritas.
A team effort: Coaching adolescent boys on the importance of respecting women and girls