'Aunties' for sexual health and non-violence: How unwed young mothers become advocates, teachers and counsellors in Cameroon

Approach developed by Flavien N’donko
Contributing Consultant Regina Görgen (evaplan Ltd.)
Documentation by Stuart Adams and James Boothroyd
Peer reviewed by the German HIV Peer Review Group (PRG)

Published by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and National Network of Aunties’ Associations (RENATA), first edition: July 2007, this edition: January 2011
Published in the German HIV Practice Collection

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The Aunties Programme empowers young mothers who got pregnant in their teens to reach into their villages or urban neighbourhoods in order to provide adolescents with sex education and counselling on sexual and reproductive health.

This publication concludes that the Aunties’ approach is transferable to other countries with traditions and contemporary situations not unlike those found in Cameroon. This approach is a good example of capacity development in that it enables young women at risk of marginalization to connect and support each other, locally and nationwide, and to shape their own futures. It has the potential to make significant contributions toward four of the eight inter-related Millennium Development Goals: gender equality and empowerment of women, reduction in child mortality, improvement of maternal health, and reduced infection and harm by HIV and other diseases.

Comments (2)

|41.217.128.xxx |2010-10-29 13:14:29 Enow Joe - Bravo!

The Aunties Project is a great project.

More grease to your elbows Doctor Flavien,

Long Live the Aunties Project

|41.205.69.xxx |2010-11-01 14:56:33 Laure Aimée NDONKO - Félicitations

J'apprécie l'impact ô combien positif et impressionnant de ce projet dans l'amélioration de la condition de la jeune fille-mère au Cameroun. Recevez toutes mes félicitations et tous mes encouragements.

Mille étoiles dorées pour le brillant promoteur de ce projet.

Allez de l'avant.