From the original programme design paper, several activities were identified as the focus of the first phase, the starting point analysis project.

Project manual 

Developing the starting point analysis project manual included the development and testing of key methodologies and tools so as to have a manual that allows efficient and effective 'roll-out' of the EPN HIV programme in other countries. The manual has been fully tested in Kenya, Rwanda and Burkina Faso.

Below you can download some tools: 

•  EPN AIDS Treatment Project Toolkit (126.56 kB)
•  Guided desk review (electronic form) (59.5 kB)
•  Priority informant interview (electronic form) (52 kB)
•  Open ended interview (electronic form (59.5 kB) 

Starting point analyses  

• From May to June 2004, a Kenyan-based study was carried out. Work included a desk review, 12 focus groups, 21 priority interviews, and 23 open-ended interviews. Locations included: Nairobi (inner and outer rural areas), Kitui, and Maua.
• From June to July 2004, a starting point analysis research was carried out in Rwanda. Work included a desk review, 10 focus groups, 9 priority interviews, and 9 open-ended interviews. Locations included: Kigali, Ruhengeri, Kibungo, Rutongo and Gitarama. 
• In 2004, EPN also organized a brief desk review of material available at an international level on HIV/AIDS, with a particular reference to ART/ARVs, and a survey of church leaders attending the Heads of African Churches Summit on HIV/AIDS in June 2004. 
• In June 2005, a Burkina Faso–based study was carried out. Work included a desk review, 10 focus groups, and 26 key informant interviews. The study took place at locations across Burkina Faso: Ouagadougou, Bobo-Dioulasso, Koudougou, and Yako.   

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Feedback meetings

In February 2005 a feedback meeting was organized in Nairobi, Kenya and in Kigali, Rwanda. The results of research undertaken in the summer of 2004 to identify starting points was fed back to group of people from churches, church health services, NGOs, and government organisations. The meeting aimed to develop ideas and commitments to interventions that can be made in the future to increase access to ARVs through the church health services and with the support of the churches. Furthermore, Africa-focused results and recommendations for future activities for the international church community were developed based on the 2004 desk review and survey at international level.

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