Support for Teachers - Community Involvement
8.2.17 Support for Teachers-Community Involvement
Education and health respondents were asked questions if and how they encouraged
community involvement in sexuality education. Their responses indicated that the strategy of having community groups involvement with schools including people living with AIDS make presentations in class is used by a small minority of education and health respondents. The specific results are as follows.
About one-third of education respondents reported that they regularly encouraged schools to work with AIDS and sexuality groups.
Figure 161
| Encourage Schools and AIDS/sexua- lity Groups to Work Together |
Planned in next 2 yrs |
Regularly |
Once in last 3 yrs |
Once in last 4-10 yrs |
Never |
Not role |
Don’t Know |
| MOE- 21u | 0.0 |
27.3 |
9.1 |
9.1 |
45.5 |
9.1 |
0.0 |
| SD - 22s | 0.9 |
35.9 |
10.3 |
12.2 |
27.7 |
n/a |
13.0 |
| SP - 19m | 2.9 |
35.2 |
10.9 |
5.4 |
41.3 |
n/a |
4.3 |
A similar response was received from the public health respondents, with the exception of the health ministries, who reported that they are funding such groups to work with schools.
Figure 162
| Funds or Works With AIDS/Sexua- lity Groups to Work With Schools |
Planned in next 2 yrs |
Regularly |
Once in last 3 yrs |
Once in last 4-10 yrs |
Never |
Not role |
Don’t Know |
No Response |
| MOH- 15q | 0.0 |
66.7 |
16.7 |
0.0 |
8.3 |
8.3 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
| PHU - 11a | 0.0 |
19.9 |
16.2 |
6.3 |
33.1 |
21.0 |
2.3 |
1.2 |
| PHN - 18g | 1.5 |
30.7 |
25.0 |
6.7 |
30.6 |
0.0 |
5.5 |
0.0 |
Health respondents were also asked if they funded or supported community-based AIDS organizations to deliver workshops or classroom presentations. The health ministries reported that they are funding community-based groups to make such presentations. The public health nurses’ responses may indicate that their work is not necessarily coordinated with that of community organizations on a regular basis.
Figure 163
| Support Community groups in teaching classes | Planned in next 2 yrs |
Regularly |
Once in last 3 yrs |
Once in last 4-10 yrs |
Never |
Not Role |
Don’t Know |
| MOH - 30g | 0.0 |
66.7 |
8.3 |
8.3 |
8.3 |
0.0 |
8.4 |
| PHU - 25g | 2.9 |
50.1 |
17.2 |
10.7 |
13.6 |
2.6 |
2.9 |
| PHN - 18g | 1.5 |
30.7 |
25.0 |
6.7 |
30.6 |
0.0 |
5.7 |
Teachers were asked if they used classroom presentations by other resource personnel and their answers were as follows:
Figure 164
| Use other Resource People | 0 |
1-10 |
11-20 |
21-30 |
31-40 |
41-50 |
51-60 |
61-70 |
71-80 |
81-90 |
91- |
| T-IV-1n | 63.2 |
29.2 |
4.2 |
0.4 |
0.0 |
0.4 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
1.1 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
Education respondents were also asked if they had developed guidelines on the use of external speakers in schools on HIV/sexuality or other sensitive issues. A minority reported that they had developed such guidelines.
Figure 165
| Have Guidelines for Use of External Speakers | Planned in next 2 yrs |
Regularly |
Once in last 3 yrs |
Once in last 4-10 yrs |
Never |
Not role |
Don’t Know |
No Response |
| MOE - 21t | 0.0 |
27.3 |
9.1 |
9.1 |
36.4 |
18.2 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
| SD - 22c | 0.9 |
33.9 |
3.4 |
10.5 |
46.4 |
n/a |
4.9 |
0.0 |
| SP - 16d | 2.2 |
55.0 |
10.8 |
3.5 |
21.9 |
n/a |
5.5 |
1.1 |
Teachers were asked if they had used classroom presentations by people living with HIV/AIDS as a teaching strategy. Their responses show that such personal presentations are not used very often. For example, 78.7% of teacher respondents said that they have such presentations 0% of the time.
Figure 166
| Have PLWAs present in class | 0 |
1-10 |
11-20 |
21-30 |
31-40 |
41-50 |
51-60 |
61-70 |
71-80 |
81-90 |
91- |
| T-IV-1-m | 78.7 |
15.9 |
1.1 |
4.3 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
Education respondents were also asked if they monitored the level of parent, community and student involvement in HIV prevention/sexual health promotion. Their responses indicated that such parent, student and community involvement may not be a priority for many within the school systems.
Figure 167
| Monitor Parent, Student, Community Involvement | Planned in next 2 yrs |
Regularly |
Once in last 3 yrs |
Once in last 4-10 yrs |
Never |
Not role |
Don’t Know |
| MOE - 21w | 9.1 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
63.6 |
18.2 |
9.1 |
| SD - 22t | 2.0 |
15.5 |
4.0 |
2.3 |
62.6 |
n/a |
13.6 |
| SP - 19n | 2.2 |
13.6 |
8.4 |
2.8 |
66.9 |
n/a |
6.1 |
Teachers were also asked about their perceptions of the support from parents
(T-IV-8). On a nine point scale where 1 was "very much" and 9 was "not at all", the average teacher response was 3.94. This would indicate that for most teachers, parental support was perceived to be adequate.