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Country: Jordan 
Agency: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)  
Address: United Nations Population Fund
Country Technical Services Team for Arab states (CST/Amman)
PO Box: 830824, Amman, Jordan (11183)
Tel: 962-6-5517040
Fax: 962-6-5516580
 
E-mail: a.nuwar@cstamman.org.jo 
Activity Title: Creating a Conductive Environment for Adolescent Reproductive Health.  
Date: 2002 
Group: 15-24 years old 
Partners: Boy Scouts and Girl Guide Associations in collaboration with UNFPA. 
Objectives/Goals: Established a regional network of 47 trained Boy Scout and Girl Guide Commissioners, adopted and incorporated Adolescent Reproductive Health, in the regular educational and community development programs.
Read More ...www.cstamman.org.jo/news/02_news.htm) 
Activity Title 2: National capacity building in Adolescent Reproductive Health  
Date: 2002  
Group: 15-24 years old  
Partners: Boy Scouts and Girl Guide Associations in collaboration with UNFPA.  
Objectives/Goals: Aimed at implementing training workshops on reproductive health at the national and local levels in seven countries. Expanded capacity building to 2616 girl guides and 2070 boy scouts.
Read More...(www.cstamman.org.jo/news/03_news.htm) 
Activity Title 3: Culturally Sensitive Information, Education and Communication (IEC), and Training materials.  
Prepared by: Boy Scouts and Girl Guide Associations in collaboration with UNFPA.  
Date: 2002 
Group: 15-24 years old  
Objectives/Goals: This project aimed to produce a reproductive health (RH) training guide that includes five thematic modules, in addition to two modules on teaching/learning methodologies. Read More... (www.cstamman.org.jo/news/05_news.htm)  
Activity Title 4: Integration of Youth Reproductive Health into Boy Scouts and Girl Guide Education and Community Development Programmes. 
Date: 2002 
Partners: UNFPA in partnership with the Arab Scout Organization/Arab Regional Office of the World Organization of the Scout Movement for Youth Reproductive Health - Jordan Office.  
Brief: Establishing and consolidating a regional Arab scout network covering seven countries of the region (Tunisia, Morocco, Sudan, West Bank & Gaza, Jordan, Bahrain, and the UAE) through the establishment of a regional technical supervisory committee. Read More... (www.cstamman.org.jo/news/01_news.htm)  
Activity Title 5: Raise Awareness about HIV/AIDS.
 
Date: 2002  
Brief: This project was co-executed by UNFPA in collaboration with OPEC Fund, Jordan.
The main objectives of the Project have been the following:
1. To raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and strengthen national efforts to detect and respond to the pandemic particularly targeting the vulnerable groups in Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen;
2. To focus on NGOs capacity building;
3. To train community health workers to deal with reproductive health issues affecting youth, including the prevention of HIV/AIDS and another sexually transmitted infections.
Read More...(www.unfpa.org/news/2002/pressroom/opec.htm)