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UPCOMING CASE STUDIES ON THE HORIZON SOLUTIONS SITE:

Men As Partners Program of the Planned Parenthood Association of South Africa and EngenderHealth

By Aziza Ahmed

Aziza Ahmed is a HORIZON Intern who spent a year in South Africa and is now a student at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH).

Aziza prepared this case study on the Men As Partners (MAP) program for the HORIZON Solutions Site with the assistance of Planned Parenthood Association of South Africa (PPASA) and EngenderHealth.

The program's objectives include to: improve men's awareness and support of their partner's reproductive health; increase awareness and responsibility for prevention of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and HIV/AIDS; increase understanding of gender equity and healthy relationships; increase awareness of and strive to prevent domestic and sexual violence; and, improve men's access to reproductive health information and services.

With well designed workshops, MAP is successful in many ways in helping people in South Africa in changing current gender norms which in turn are very helpful in preventing STDs and HIV/AIDS. Project Evaluation and Research Services which formally evaluated MAP in September of 2000 concluded that MAP was not only successful, but also that it "provides a framework for male focused programs globally".

For more information: http://www.ppasa.org.za/

Bonaire: Case Study of a Successful Marine Protected Area

In the struggle for life on this planet, man has clearly won. On land his traces are everywhere but recently he has gone under water too and the results are devastating. Hundreds of square miles of reef have been poisoned, dynamited, polluted, overfished or indirectly damaged by activities on the adjacent land.

There are a few places however where an interdependency has developed between man and the reef and where they provide services to each other to the benefit of both. Like a symbiotic relationship of which there are many on the reef. One such place is Bonaire, a small Caribbean island. Spurred by the bad example of its sister island Curacao, Bonaire had the foresight in the seventies to put a halt to the destruction of the reef by declaring the sea around the island a Marine Park.

Due to its success, the island economy now floats virtually entirely on diving tourism. The tourists are required to follow a course on how to behave under water and are not allowed to use diving gloves, because they are not supposed to touch anything anyway. Here, eco-tourism is bringing improved livelihoods to much of the population. In its own way a symbiotic relationship with life both on land and in the water as the island's wildlife, from the boobies on the cliffs of the North Western tip of the island to the flamingos on the salt flats in the South-East, is also protected.

A Report on Bonaire by Lucy Gallagher-Freymuth, HORIZON Intern, is included in this newsletter. Later this month her case study on the island's coral reef preservation efforts will be posted. Lucy has worked as a volunteer on coral reef projects in Belize, Honduras and the Philippines and is aiming at a career in coral reef management. She is currently studying for an MSc in Environmental Assessment and Evaluation at the London School of Economics, UK.

(c) HORIZON INTERNATIONAL 2001