SayPro SEVISSA Gauteng Coalition

Overview:

• To provide an overview of the different organizational interventions in relation to SeViSSA

Intentions:

• To build the collective picture of the different interventions and how they contribute to the SeViSSA outcomes
• To surface emerging lessons from implementation by different partners;

Organisations were asked to answer the following and present it to the whole group:

• Name of organizationWhat are they doing in SeViSSA (What is the model or theory of change)What have they learnt thus far? What else is there still to learn?What have they been really good at?What are they grappling with?What would they do differently and why?

Below is an overview of the presentations from the different provinces

Gauteng Coalition

Afrika Tikkun	Childline	Education with Enterprise Trust (EWET)	SAYPro
Focus: Fighting against sexual violence in schools   Model: Using different methods to capacitate youth to say no to GBV and advocate for their rights. AV Buddies/Clubs Lesson Plans and CAPS Child Protection Project National School Safety Framework Tree of Life Diversity and Human Rights Leadership skills Developing young people from cradle to career Say no to GBV Strengthening working relationships among coalition members     What have we learnt? Our interventions work best when led by young people themselves.   Want to learn how to sustain program beyond funding.   What have we been good at? Building and strengthening relationship with other stakeholders such as parents, health facilities, SGBs, religious communities, schools, local municipalities.   What are we grappling with? Involving families and the communities.   What would we do differently? Developing interventions that will enable us to strengthen our relationships with parents and other community stakeholders, including gatekeepers.	Focus: Providing psycho-social support for abused children and strengthening families   Model: Provide therapeutic sessions that are child centered and empower parents with skills and knowledge.   Empowered with information that will help them make informed decision and help them heal from traumatic experiences and provide good support and be role models to other children. l   One on one session Therapeutic groups Parenting Groups   What have we learnt? We need to work more with parents because if they lack knowledge and skills this affects their children (we depend on them to accompany and believe in the program)   What have we been good at? For the children who have been to sessions, parents come back to us and thank us for what we have done.   What are we grappling with? Finances, we can’t help everybody and sometimes transport costs prevent people from coming for help.   What would we do differently? Provide therapy from schools because it is cheaper and you can attend to many children from one school	Focus: Providing entrepreneurship education to educators and learners   Model: Participation in coalition with SAYPRO.  A standard base for purpose of M&E reporting.  Interlinked and shared activities. Institution capacity by partners.   What have we learnt and we are good at? Good at facilitating for provision of entrepreneurial education (EE) – learners starting own businesses and practically manage them. We do teacher training on EE, learner leadership training and good at formation and nurturing of learning partnerships for purposes of facilitating EE.  Establishment of stakeholder collaboration and meeting forum.    What are we grappling with? As we scale up, we grapple with partner facilitating the EE program and implementation as per activity plan.   What would we do differently? Further develop capacity to take over the management of the programs on the ground until the partner is fully versed in implementation processes.  Also to involve parents and SG in facilitating skills development of the learners.	Focus: Poverty2Jobs by changing the way young people think about themselves. (Partner with EWET)   Model: Providing entrepreneurship education in 3 schools.   What have we learnt? How to deliver the EE program How to sustain relationships with beneficiaries The importance of nurturing and supporting learners and engaging parents.   What have we been good at? We are good at facilitating and guiding YES clubs – engaging learners in practical and focused programs.  Providing educational support.     What are we grappling with? Efficient communication and delivering on the action plan and decision-making.