B. YouthAID Community-Based Organization (CBO) is conducting a 5 year intervention that intends to reach high-risk, out-of-school adolescent youth. The CBO plans to provide a series of educational sessions to cover basic information about HIV transmission and to teach condom use skills in the community. The intended outcome is to increase HIV knowledge and condom use. The CBO plans to use the Healthy Youth Curriculum to facilitate these sessions. It is estimated that this intervention will target 100 adolescents per quarter. i. List five types of monitoring activities ii. Students in the YouthAID program are asked to complete the Youth Risk Behavior Survey administered nationally and annually as a way of tracking their and other youths’ behaviors. What type of M&E activity is being conducted? iii. The YouthAID program manager sits in to observe the intervention and to see if the health educator is following the Healthy Youth Curriculum and also asks participants how satisfied they were with the sessions once they are completed. What type of M&E activity is being conducted?

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B. YouthAID Community-Based Organization (CBO) is conducting a 5 year

intervention that intends to reach high-risk, out-of-school adolescent youth. The

CBO plans to provide a series of educational sessions to cover basic information

about HIV transmission and to teach condom use skills in the community. The

intended outcome is to increase HIV knowledge and condom use. The CBO

plans to use the Healthy Youth Curriculum to facilitate these sessions. It is

estimated that this intervention will target 100 adolescents per quarter.

i. List five types of monitoring activities

ii. Students in the YouthAID program are asked to complete the Youth Risk

Behavior Survey administered nationally and annually as a way of tracking

their and other youths’ behaviors. What type of M&E activity is being

conducted?

iii. The YouthAID program manager sits in to observe the intervention and to see

if the health educator is following the Healthy Youth Curriculum and also asks

participants how satisfied they were with the sessions once they are

completed. What type of M&E activity is being conducted?

iv. The Ministry of Health and other partners review HIV/AIDS surveillance data

for the past three years since the program started to determine the HIV

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situation of youth in the country. What type of M&E activity are they

conducting?

v. A sample of participants in the YouthAID program are given HIV tests at the

beginning of the program and they will be tested repeatedly over a five-year

period to learn if they have seroconverted. These seroconversion rates will

be compared with those youth who are not involved with the program. What

type of M&E activity is being conducted?

vi. YouthAID staff administer a behavioral questionnaire to participants before

the intervention and 2 years after the intervention. Staff give the same

questionnaire in the same time periods to a similar group of youth who did not

receive the intervention. The results of these surveys are compared to see if

there were changes in behavior and if the two groups differed. What type of

M&E activity is being conducted?

vii. YouthAID staff keep a record of the number of youth who attend each session

as well as participants’ gender and age. Staff also keep a record of the

numbers and types of educational materials distributed to these participants.

What type of M&E activity is being conducted?

viii. YouthAID staff conduct a needs assessment to learn more about the factors

that put their population at risk for HIV. They use this information to plan their

intervention with this population. What type of M&E activity are they

conducting?

ix. YouthAID staff conduct a client focus group, but once the group is complete,

no one ever transcribes the audiotapes of the group discussion or looks at the

information that emerged from this discussion. The tapes sit in a box in the

back office. What type of M&E activity are they conducting?

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