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SAYWHAT comprehensive SRH manual
Students and Youth Working on Reproductive Health Action Team (SAYWHAT)
February 28, 2012

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Introduction to the Manual

Since its inception in 2003, SAYWHAT has trained peer educators to make a difference within their respective tertiary institutions. Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) is a vast subject with a commensurate body of knowledge. As such institutions have found it challenging to fully equip volunteers with the information that they need. In response to this challenge trainers at SAYWHAT have provided large volumes of assorted texts to prepare and enable peer educators to carry out their work.

Although, largely owing to the ingenuity of trainers, this cumbersome approach has succeeded taking SAYWHAT to where it is today, this manual is set to make this work a lot easier.

The SAYWHAT Comprehensive SRH Manual is a custom made compilation of the existing knowledge on SRH adequately compiled for the needs of youth in Zimbabwe.

Although SAYWHAT, together with many of its partners, may boast of quantity and quality in output of trained peer educators over the years, the organization cannot claim to have standardized such trainings. It has been difficult to account for and track what each and every peer educator is knowledgeable about in regards to SRH and its related themes.

This manual will ensure that all volunteers trained by SAYWHAT are provided with the comprehensive information they need regardless of where and when they are trained. In a world where standards are a measure of meaningful success in development interventions, this manual is a milestone in the training programmes of SAYWHAT.

This manual does not come with a training guide and therefore allows room for flexibility in training, execution and methodologies. The purpose of the manual is to compile comprehensive information on SRH in a single summarized format such that trainers can reference accurate and precise information in their trainings while using their preferred training methodology. It is notable, however, that current SAYWHAT methodologies such as Stepping Stones and Aunty Stella have proven useful.

The "Campus Barometer" is one key feature of this manual which can assist with content delivery. The campus barometer serves to ground realities of the subject under discussion, prompting the peer educators to reflect on the challenges faced within their own colleges. The nuggets and facts provided under the campus barometer are based on research undertaken by SAYWHAT at tertiary institutions in Zimbabwe.

With comprehensive information and knowledge students will conquer the battle against SRH challenges!

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