PEER EDUCATION STANDARDS

Shubha Kayastha

Ref: Youth Peer Education toolkit: Standard of Peer Education Programmes, 2005

Why is standard on Peer Education useful?

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Peer Education Standards checklist

• Planning• Recruitment and Retention• Training and Supervision• Management and Oversight• Monitoring and Evaluation

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Planning• Mobilize main stakeholders• Ensure active participation of youth• Consider cross-cutting issues• Refine general and specific programme objectives• Identify target audience• Identify the needs of the target audience• Identify available resources and try to fill gaps • Develop a workplan• Develop an M & E plan• Establish feedback mechanisms• Coordinate and establish linkages with other

programmes• Develop a resource mobilization and sustainability

plan

Recruitment:• Identify sources and channels for recruiting peer educators• Decide on criteria for peer educator selection• Set clear expectations• Establish a standardized and transparent interview and selection

processRetention• Document expectations• Establish means of continuous communication, including

feedback• Establish an incentives system• Establish supervisory and mentoring system• Offer opportunities for increasing involvement and responsibility

Training and Supervision• Arranged for qualified training• Select a quality training curriculum• Arrange structure for appropriately sized groups• Structure agenda and time to meet training

needs• Provide relevant materials• Use interactive, participatory, skills development

approaches• Implement tools and methods to evaluate

training• Youth involvement at all stage

Mangement and Oversees• Ensure quality, standard

maintantained• Efficient human and financial

resource • Transparent decision making process• Youth Participation• Use M&E tools • Cooperation, linkages and

networking• Sustainability plans

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Monitoring and Evaluation

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• establish relevant, clear objectives• establish funcational, relevant indicators• include M & E in the workpkan from the start• implement baseline assessment • develop monitoring tools and a measuring

system• ensure capacity to plan and implement M&E• Establih means for youth participation in

planning and implementation M& E

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