The STREAM Network Strategic Plan 2023 - 2027
The STREAM Network Strategic Plan 2023 - 2027 highlights intergenerational solidarity and how it can be harnessed to end violence against adolescent girls and young women. Within our communities, we all recognise also how the vicious cycle of VAW and VAC are both causes as well as consequences of HIV. These slow down, reduce - and often prevent - women's and children's realisation of their SRHR.
The STREAM Network is a new network created out of a 4-day meeting held in Nairobi, Kenya, from 30 September to 3 October 2022, hosted by Positive Young Women Voices.STREAM stands for Stepping Stones Trainers
Engaging with Activist Movements.
The meeting brought together feminist women’s rights activists who are all women living with HIV, from Argentina, Cameroon, India, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, UK/Ireland and Zimbabwe; as well as long-term Stepping Stones
female and male practitioners from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. The meeting comprised 42 participants altogether, with an age-range stretching from our mid-twenties to our late seventies. Together we resolved to join our
diverse experiences, knowledge, skills and passions together to create the STREAM Network.
In early 2024, the STREAM Network expanded to welcome two new countries and networks,
who are already familiar with using adapted versions of Stepping Stones: COWLHA in Malawi; and Estrela+ in Timor Leste.
RELATED DOCUMENTS AND SITES:
- "We hear the thunder but we see no rain: Lessons learnt in efforts to promote community-led evidence-based initiatives to advance our SRHR” by Bajenja EK and Njenga LW on behalf of the STREAM Network.
Oral Presentation by Lucy Wanjiku of Positive Young Women Voices at the African Workshop on HIV and Women in Nairobi, Kenya, February 2024.
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Launch of the STREAM Network. Concluding Remarks by Lucy Wanjiku Njenga, Founding Director, PYWV. October 2022.
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Stepping Stones Newsletter for International Women’s Day 2023.
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Some Stepping Stones films and presentations: a selection of presentations and films which show how Stepping Stones works holistically across the genders,
generations and HIV status to support girls, women, boys and men in communities to work together to uphold their SRHR https://vimeo.com/showcase/11276020?share=copy
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The Stepping Stones website (http://www.steppingstonesfeedback.org/ Our knowledge and understanding of how best to uphold our SRHR is constantly evolving and Stepping
Stones trainers are constantly modifying their methods to ensure they are uptodate with the latest evidence-based advances.
This is especially important since so much has changed in the world of HIV over the years. This Stepping Stones website contains Stepping Stones Adaptation
Guidelines and Frequently Asked Questions about how to adapt the Stepping Stones programmes in a way which ensures that it is best suited to each new context,
while remaining aligned to the structure and principles of the original programme and up to date with the latest scientific information. You can contact Stepping
Stones accredited trainers in your own country / region through this site.
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UNAIDS ALIVHE Framework. Ths framework was designed to support those wishing to implement and evaluate responses to violence against women (and girls) and
HIV in and with communities. In our STREAM Strategic Plan, we have adapted the ALIVHE landscape theory of change, as well as the ALIVHE values and the gender change matrix.
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“Enhancing Social Norms Change Programs: An invitation to rethink “Scaling Up” from a feminist perspective." The CUSP Collective. 2021.
This thoughtpiece by a collective of originators of evidence-based gender-transformative social norms change programmes (including Stepping Stones),
offers an alternative, ecological metaphor for scaling social norms change through women’s movements. Our STREAM Network strategy builds on this metaphor.
