RISE steers children away from gambling.
THIS YEAR, RISE celebrates 28 years of impact in Jamaica, designing and delivering services that cater to vulnerable populations across a wide range of thematic areas, including human rights, HIV/AIDS prevention and testing, capacity building, and substance abuse and addictive disorders rehabilitation.
The year 2018 has been very busy for us as we changed lives for the better. Take a look at some of the projects we implemented this year and the impact they had.
The EU-funded Finding My Voice programme is an exciting sexual-abuse prevention training and awareness programme for primary schools islandwide that uses music and games to deliver classroom sessions to more than 5,000 students. The programme also provided training for more than 1,000 parents and 35 teachers and guidance counsellors this year.
Additionally, a total of 3,000 youths in secondary schools islandwide have received humanrights education. Through this grant, RISE funded the Children First agency to implement WAKE, a gender-based violence project for battered women providing counselling and entrepreneurial training and support to move women out of abusive situations.
CAPACITY-BUILDING SUPPORT
The EU-funded Civil Society Boost Initiative (CSBI) is a capacitybuilding programme for Jamaican civil-society organisations (CSOs). Twenty-two CSOs benefited from capacity-building support through training and coaching in CSO management in proposal writing, project management, financial management, communications and public relations, social media, internal governance, monitoring and evaluation, and succession planning.
A total of $10 million was sub-granted through calls for proposals. The following three listed agencies were successful in receiving funding to implement projects in their communities: Deaf Can, Voices for Jamaica Today Foundation, Eve for Life.
A Capacity Building Manual for CSOs was developed, ‘How to Set Up and Manage Your CSO for Success’,
which was created out of the capacity-building training programme. This manual will be made available to CSOs in Jamaica that wish to increase their operational capacity, as well as to anyone thinking of setting up a CSO in Jamaica.
RISE WISE Social Enterprise:
Training for young people in the use of plastic and other waste to produce household items through a process of upcycling, and training of community-based organisations in advocacy in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme and Jamaica Environment Trust.
OAS-funded A New Path Programme:
Promoting a healthy environ-ment and productive alter-natives for juvenile remandees and offenders in Jamaica. RISE trained 16 staff members of the island’s juvenile-detention facilities to become life-skills facilitators, who are in turn conducting life skills-training in the following juvenile detention facilities: South Camp Detention Centre for Girls, Metcalfe Street Juvenile Detention Centre, Hilltop Juvenile Correctional Centre, and the Rio Cobre Juvenile Correctional Centre. Collectively, this project has impacted more than 120 juvenile offenders in Jamaica.
USAID FHI 360 Local Partner Development:
RISE entered into a three-year agreement with the FHI 360 to implement a broad-based capacity-building programme for Jamaica’s civil-society sector. Part of this programme will also focus on the building of RISE capacity and the implementation of capacity building for grassroots organisations, called Stepping Stones.
Global Fund/Ministry of Health HIV prevention, testing and access to care programme:
Targeting the most vulnerable populations of men who have sex with men (MSM) and female sex workers (FSW). This year, 494 MSM were reached and received voluntary counselling and testing services, while 610 FSW were reached and received voluntary counselling and testing services.