Sabala project implementation design

Abstract

Launched in July 2012 by the Karnataka Health Promotion Trust, the five-year Sabala project aims to reduce vulnerability to HIV infection and improve quality of life among adolescent scheduled caste/scheduled tribe (SC/ST) girls in Bijapur and Bagalkot Districts by increasing their rates of secondary school enrolment and completion.

Project Sabala covers 54 high schools and 476 teachers serving approximately 3300 adolescent girls from 1650 families in 121 villages, in Bijapur and Bagalkot Districts, and is structured in three phases: (i) planning, (ii) implementation, and (iii) evaluation, consolidation, and dissemination. 皇冠体育app one-year planning phase was spent conducting assessments to inform Sabala鈥檚 design, and piloting intervention strategies. 皇冠体育app three-year implementation phase, which is featured in this document, will focus on implementing the intervention. 皇冠体育app fifth year will be for consolidation, evaluation, and dissemination.

Chapter One of this document describes the structural backwardness that shortens education for many SC/ST adolescent girls in northern Karnataka. Chapter Two presents evidence indicating that girls will be protected from HIV and their quality of life will be enhanced by intervention with a cross section of society to increase girls鈥� enrolment and completion of secondary education. Chapter Three presents Sabala鈥檚 theory of change. 皇冠体育app project鈥檚 intervention framework and timelines are presented in Chapter Four. Sabala鈥檚 management structure is presented in Chapter Five and Chapter Six contains the monitoring and evaluation matrix.

Citation

Raghavendra, T.; Anderson, B. Sabala project implementation design. Karnataka Health Promotion Trust, Rajajinagar, Bangalore, India (2013) 75 pp.

Updates to this page

Published 1 January 2013