READY to Lead with Faith

This manual seeks to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes of religious and faith leaders to understand and respond effectively to sexual and gender-based violence and how it intersects and drives HIV among adolescents and young people.

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Since 2021, the READY movement has trained religious and faith leaders in Eastern and Southern Africa on sexual and gender-based violence and its links with HIV among adolescents and young people. The workshops, which took place in Angola, Eswatini, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zimbabwe, used a manual that incorporated scriptural teachings. Frontline AIDS has now fully revised and updated the manual.

The manual is aimed primarily at facilitators who plan to deliver training workshops for faith leaders with the goal of enhancing their knowledge of sexual and gender-based violence and its links with HIV by:

• Adopting youth-friendly approaches, supporting adolescents and young people in all their diversity through the social challenges they face.
• Challenging harmful gender norms and promote gender equality.
• Preventing sexual and gender-based violence and respond to survivors.
• Understanding power dynamics in gender relations.
• Promoting access to sexual and reproductive healthcare and HIV services.