The Education Response to HIV and AIDS- Progress

Presentation to Education Portfolio

Committee

19th August 2003Kgobati Magome, Ministry of Education

Presentation Layout

• Education Response to HIV and AIDS

• Progress- national and provincial

• New Projects- per focus Area of Medium Term Strategic Framework (MTSF)

• Conclusion

The Education Response to HIV and AIDS

• System-wide response to HIV and AIDS

• Across the GET, FET and Higher Education Bands

• The three focus areas:

Limiting the spread of HIV among all, particularly young people

Providing social support to educators and learners

Managing the impact of AIDS on the education service and the delivery of education to all

• Focus on nodal areas for 2003/4 , reflected in MTSF

National Progress- HIV/AIDS and the system

• Support to provinces to develop provincial strategic plans in line with the MTSF; establish adequately staffed HIV and AIDS Units HIV and AIDS Strategic Planning Support provided to LP, EC, MP

and WC. Other provinces scheduled

An HIV and AIDS Directorate established at national

Provinces have followed- NC, GP, MP, EC have continued to strengthen capacities to respond

• Report on the determinants of demand and supply of educators based in schools and FET colleges

Study commissioned and funded by the ELRC Information on current health status, attrition- causes and

analysis • Policies reviewed in the light of reports

National Progress

• HIV and AIDS programmes in all 35 HEd institutions

Focus on research, peer education, curriculum integration, Voluntary Counselling and Testing, workplace

• Teacher Programme Working group established as part of the Higher Ed

HIV and AIDS programme-Schools of Education,Ministerial task team,SAUVCA,CTP

Main task is to develop an HIV and AIDS curriculum framework for the training of teachers, both at PRESET and INSET.

National Progress• The involvement of SGBs in school-based HIV/AIDS

programmes

Communities critical for an enabling and supportive environment to behaviour change

Resource guides to assist SGBs with the development of HIV and AIDS responses that are specific to the context of each school community

One resource guide each for parents, SGBs/SMTs, and provincial planners/district managers

Transfer of funds to schools to enable response at primary level of impact -mainly Sec. 21 schools

To be launched during School AIDS week in September 2003

Provincial Progress

• HIV and AIDS a strategic priority for all provinces.-reflected in strategic plans.

• Existing provincial programmes focus on:

Curriculum-based Life Skills and HIV/AIDS programme, funded through Conditional grant. 

   Workplace programme, operating within

departments’ employee assistance programmes

Inter-branch committees to develop integrated responses to HIV and AIDS. Members of the committee include representation from all Branches and Directorates.

Curriculum-based Lifeskills and HIV/AIDS programme • Is the core of Government National

Integrated Plan(NIP) for children, and absorbs 50% of the total allocation to the three Departments-DsD, DoH and DoE

• Programme has focussed mainly on training of teachers, development and procurement of LSM, implementation at school level

TRAINING OF EDUCATORS ON LIFE SKILLS & HIV/AIDS IN PROVINCES

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FS GP KZN NW NC WC LP EC MP

Original Target

No Trained

Funds allocated to LSM

• Emphasis on Relevance, use and

Distribution of LSM

FS GP KZN NW NC WC LP EC MP

R’000 R’000 R’000 R’000 R’000 R’000 R’000 R’000 R’000

Funds allocated 3 900 3 200 12 600 6 300 2 700 7 600 2 300 7 200 4 600

Funds Spent 3 800 3 100 11 200 7 179 2 800 7 000 1 800 6 700 3 800

OVERALL EXPENDITURE BY PROVINCE FOR FINANCIAL YEAR 2002/2003

PROVINCE ALLOCATION ACTUAL EXPENDITURE

% SPENT PER ALLOCATION

R’000 R’000 R’000

EC 27,238 11,163 40,98

FS 9,072 10,083 111,14

GP 17,712 17,613 99,44

KZN 31,824 30,403 95,53

LP 22,613 23,906 105,72

MP 10,512 13,449 127,94

NC 2,738 2,854 104,24

NW 11,520 9,452 82,05

WC 11,376 19,005 140,69

TOTAL 144 605 134 928 80.31

ALLOCATION VS EXPENDITURE - 2002/2003

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Expenditure

• Expenditure improved substantially as capacity, planning and management improved

• Over-expenditure mainly due to administrative errors

Implementation levels per province

• FS, NW, GP and WC conducted process evaluation to determine implementation levels

• Estimates for remaining provinces self-

reported

FS GP KZN NW NC WC LP EC MP

Percentage of schools implementing

85 70 68 73 80 60 65 46 51

Conditional Grant-Summary of progress

• 55 000 teachers trained to facilitate life skills and sexuality education to date

• Production of age appropriate learner material has continued

• Emphasis on development of Learner Support Material for learners with special needs- in Braille

• Implementation in +/- 60% of schools nationwide- fruits evident, as reported by Nelson Mandela/HSRC study

• Assessments in provinces indicate improvements in implementation,management,expenditure

Workplace Programmes

• Most provinces are implementing some form of a workplace programme

• Need to review to ensure compliance with the regulations to the Public Service Act of 1994.

• In terms of these, the DG of a department needs to ensure the implementation of HIV and AIDS workplace programmes within a framework set by the regulations

Limiting the spread of HIV-for learners/students- New and Continuing Projects

• Life skills and HIV/AIDS teacher training completed in all provinces- Although challenges experienced

• Peer education in all schools

• National gender and power programme targeting boys, including the Girls Education Movement

• Life Orientation learning area reflecting HIV/AIDS in ABET and FET curricula

• Relevant learner and teacher support materials for ABET, FET and Higher Ed.

Provision of support -for learners

• Identification system, first level counseling

• Compliance with the South African Schools Act-Ensuring that children stay in school, Exemption from school fees

• School-based integrated counselling and support service- involving the DSD, DoH, SGBs and communities

• District counselling and support services accessible to schools

• Plan for continued provision of education to the infected and affected- e.g home schooling etc.

Limiting the spread of HIV-for educators

• PRESET and INSET modules on HIV/AIDS and life skills

• Context-specific workplace programme in all schools- in progress with ELRC

• National programme for peer educators on HIV/AIDS; and basic counselling- Resource Guides near completion

• Condom distribution for educators

• A media campaign to communicate key messages on HIV and AIDS to educators

Provision of support- for educators

• School workplace policy for educators- Review underway within ELRC

• School-based first level counseling support

• Cluster-based referral centres –linking with VCT centres in district

 Conclusion • Programme has made significant gains

• Policies and programmes are sound, implementation needs strengthening

• Dedicated capacity does make a difference, has made a difference

• Work on strengthening support and monitoring is continuing

• Need to consolidate care responses- for learners and educators