Appendix 4: Additional Information PREPARE

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1 Appendix 4: Additional Information PREPARE Promoting sexual and reproductive health among adolescents in southern and eastern Africa mobilising schools, parents and communities (PREPARE): Culture-specific norms, attitudes, and beliefs 1

2 RESEARCH AND TECHICAL TEAM MEMBERS Hans Onya Director: Health Promotion Principal Invertigator and Limpopo Site Project leader Leif Edvard Aarø Professor and overall PREPARE project leader Research centre for Health Promotion, University of Bergen-Norway Charles Abraham Professor: Co-investigator Partner number 5 Department of Psychology, University of Sussex, United Kingdom Abebe Tessera Professor: Statistical Support Head of Department of Statistics and Operational Research. Jabukani Makhubele Senior Lecturer: Co-investigator and PhD Supervision Department of Social Works, Suzan Ramatsea PREPARE Project Co-ordinator/Researcher and PhD candidate Health Promotion Unit and Department of Social Work Simpiwe Mbatha PREPARE Assistant Researcher Health Promotion Unit Percy Kekana Lecturer and PhD Candidate Department of Public Health and Department of Education France Matlala Lecturer and PhD Candidate Department of Public Health and Department of Education. Marelize Kellerman Finance Officer Research Development and Administration. Kgomotso Malaka 2

3 Administrative Officer. Health Promotion Unit,. Annexure OTHER COMMENTS: Involved in this project are four African and four European universities (see list below). The PREPARE consortium is organized in an appropriate and dynamic management and communication structure distributed into fifteen different work packages including project management. The defined management will ensure the fulfilment of the objectives of PREPARE and ability to overcome difficulties related to the achievement of the specific objectives within the timeframe of the 48 months duration of the project. The tasks are clearly defined in order to reach each milestone in time. The project is coordinated by the University of Bergen, an institution with long-standing experience in coordinating EU-projects. All partner institutions are responsible for the leadership of at least one work package, and there are project staff at all partner institutions. There is one Consortium Committee responsible for making decisions of importance to the project, and there is a Scientific Advisory Board (see list of members below) List of participants/partners in the PREPARE Project Participant no. Participant organisation name Country 1 (UoB) University of Bergen Norway 2 (UCT) University of Cape Town South Africa 3 (UoL) University of Limpopo South Africa 4 (Mak) Makerere University Uganda 5 (MUH) Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences Tanzania 6 (Maas) Maastricht University The Netherlands 7 (UoO) University of Oslo Norway 8 (UoS) University of Sussex U.K Project costs in EURO (Limpopo site only) Project number: Project acronym: PREPARE Participant number in this project: 3 Participant short name: UL One Form per Participant Funding % for RTD/Innovation activities (A): 75% Type of Activity 3

4 RTD / Innovation Demonstration Management Other Total (A) (B) (C) (D) A+B+C+D Personnel costs 227, , Subcontracting Other direct costs 78, , Indirect costs 183, , Total costs 488, , EC contribution 366, , Scientific Advisory Committee The Scientific Advisory Committee consists of internationally acknowledged researchers and experts in the field of promotion of sexual- and reproductive health and HIV and AIDS prevention. The Coordinator, assisted by the Project Manager, will arrange for members of the Scientific Advisory Committee to provide feedback on plans for interventions, evaluation designs, instruments for data collection and plans for data analyses, reporting and publishing. The usual mode of communication with the Scientific Advisory Committee will be by and by telephone meetings. The members of the Scientific Advisory Committee are (in alphabetical order): Nancy Darling, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Psychology Department, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. Her research has focused on contextual variation in adolescents relationships with parents, peers, romantic partners, and unrelated adults, the association of relationship quality with adolescent wellbeing, and the active role of adolescents in shaping their environments. She is one of the leading experts internationally on parenting, a most central issue in the PREPARE project. Jane Ferguson, Department of Adolescent Health and Development, World Health Organization (Headquarters), Geneva. Jane Ferguson was a driving force behind the important Report Preventing HIV/AIDS in young people which was published by the World Health Organization 2006 (co-author of two chapters). Her expertise in issues related to public health action for adolescents and her worldwide network of experts and decision-makers at a high political level is most important for all stages of the PREPARE project including dissemination of findings and intervention approaches. Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale, Professor, Ph.D., Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Windsor, Canada. Areas of expertise include adolescent sexuality, HIV prevention, programme evaluation and communitybased research. She has published excellent reviews of HIV prevention among adolescents, and she has been involved in outstanding research on HIV prevention among adolescents in sub-saharan Africa (Kenya and Nigeria). Eli Nangawe, Dr., WHO National Programme Officer, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Nangawe is expert on social and economic determinants of health, evidence based health planning and management, health systems 4

5 strengthening and health policy analysis. His work has focused on the application of primary health care principles to prevention, treatment and care of persons with HIV and AIDS in the context of a community health project based at a rural hospital in Tanzania. He has also served as a public and community health consultant to the Tanzanian Ministry of Health, and NGOs in Tanzania and internationally. Dr. Nangawe s strengths of relevance to this project are in community participatory approaches and systems strengthening for health. He is currently the WHO National Programme Officer stationed in Tanzania. 5