Our Partners

Health

CSPE is working with the National Department of Health (NDoH) to improve PE as a strategy to promote youth-friendly clinics. CSPE is also building the capacity of DoH provincial and district personnel to monitor and evaluate PE and other HIV and AIDS prevention and health promotion interventions. This project is presently concentrated in Mpumalanga and Limpopo and in 2008 will extend to Eastern Cape.

Schools

The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) has been sponsoring PE programmes in 140 schools under a model adapted from Rutanang with technical assistance from CSPE and evaluation by the University of Cape Town. In 2008 CSPE provided regularly scheduled TA to the WCED and the new Western Cape Youth Peer Education Collaborative.

The KwaZulu-Natal DoE has engaged the Centre to provide T&TA to its contracted peer education providers throughout the province. CSPE is also providing planning and M&E support to the Department.

The Eastern Cape's large school-based programme uses the Rutanang approach and materials. The primary province-wide provider, Youth for Christ, is a long-time CSPE partner.

National policy changes and additional Cabinet funding are strengthening the Further Education and Training (FET) sector, critical to expanding skills in the South African workforce. CSPE is working with the Free State DoE and selected FET colleges to design and implement comprehensive HIV and AIDS and life skills packages. Similar collaboration is in planning stages with other provinces.

National policy changes and additional Cabinet funding are strengthening the Further Education and Training (FET) sector, critical to expanding skills in the South African workforce. CSPE is working with the Free State DoE and selected FET colleges to design and implement comprehensive HIV and AIDS and life skills packages. Similar collaboration is in planning stages with other provinces.

Faith-Based Organisations

Through an intensive collaboration with The Anglican Church of Southern Africa (ACSA), CSPE provides training and ongoing technical assistance to leadership, adult supervisors, and peer educators from eight parishes in the dioceses of Highveld and Christ the King, (Gauteng) and to supervisors in dioceses in Port Elizabeth, Grahamstown, and northern KZN.
In 2006 the Catholic Institute for Education (CIE) began a pilot of an integrated model of peer education in three schools in KwaZulu-Natal. CIE is seeking support to extend this joint initiative to another cluster of schools, and then to its national network.

NGOs and CBOs

PEPFAR and the DoH encourage their partners using peer education to work with CSPE toward continuous improvement and consistent documentation and evaluation. For example, Hope World Wide and AMREF have engaged CSPE to help strengthen their peer education activities. In 2008, T&TA will be provided to a new set of PEPFAR/DOH partners, including the South African San Institute (SASI), Zakaheni, and the AIDS, Sexuality and Health Youth Organisation (ASHYO). As described below, in CSPE's increasing work with vulnerable children it partners with AMREF, Heartbeat, Hope World Wide, National Association of Child Care Workers and Isibindi, Noah, CARE, and Save the Children UK.

Workplace

Adult-to-adult peer education has more similarities than differences to peer education for youth. The primary audience for worksite peer education is that organisation’s employees; however, research conducted by Prof. David Dickinson of the Wits Business School (WBS) demonstrates that such programmes also reach workers’ extended families, communities and churches. CSPE offers assistance to public sector and corporate workplace programmes.

Sport and Recreation

Sports programmes provide regular access to youth and concrete expe-riences that can make HIV and AIDS and life skills learning memorable and meaningful. They need peer education in order to deliver on these opportunities.

PeacePlayers International (PPI) involves hundreds of Durban-area adolescents in organised basketball leagues. It is intensifying its long-standing collaboration with CSPE to make quality life skills even more integral to the PPI experience.

Higher Education

With Varsity College, CSPE has begun to implement peer education as an approach to address HIV and AIDS on the Westville Campus and is investigating expansion to other campuses.