Prf Peter Keogh

The ACCESS project will generate sustainable, scalable, rights-based approaches to deliver comprehensive SRHR to all, ensuring no one is left behind, even in the most complex and challenging settings. It will work in Ethiopia, Myanmar, Nepal, Sierra Leone, and Uganda. Three planned outcome changes: 1) Increased demand for and availability of quality, comprehensive SRH services and agency to claim and enjoy rights by the most marginalised populations in complex and challenging environments. (2) Strengthened SRHR capacity, preparedness and resilience of government, civil society and communities in complex and challenging environments, ensuring no one is left behind. (3) Improved national and global policy environment for an effective, coordinated, and evidence-based SRHR response in complex and challenging environments. There are six interlinked work streams, each led by one consortium partner: 1) Delivering comprehensive, quality sexual and reproductive health services: Led by the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) 2) Working with and for the most marginalised and underserved: Led by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance 3) Navigating complex and challenging environments: Led by the Women's Refugee Commission (WRC) 4) Generating high-quality research evidence: Led by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) (5) Enhancing capacity-building and learning at scale: Led by the Open University (OU) 6) Influencing through advocacy, engagement and information: Led by Internews

REAct is a piece of work being undertaken as part of the ACCESS research project between the OU and consortium partner, Frontline Aids. The work involves the development of an e-learning version of Frontline Aid’s existing training course delivered, pre-pandemic, face-to-face. The end product will be a 6-hour course published on the OpenLearn Create platform. The work falls under the ‘Access to Justice’ mini-project which the OU is leading (Professor Peter Keogh). Evidence and data of human rights abuses, with a particular focus on Gender Based Violence, gathered by ‘REActors’ is/will be developed for advocacy purposes at both local, regional and national levels and be used to influence policy change - one of the key outputs of the ACCESS research programme. This AMS record covers the work that will fall outside the timeline of the ACCESS project which is being terminated ahead of schedule by FCDO at 31 December 2021. LDS are currently building the course and it is scheduled for presentation in w/c 22 January to a pilot cohort of Frontline Aid partner staff based in Uganda. The course will run over 3-weeks and it is expected that some final minor amendments will be made following feedback from the pilot cohort. This work, scheduled over January to end of March 2022 and estimated at £6000, will be paid for by Frontline Aids who will issue the OU with a service contract.

CSE is a curriculum-based process of teaching and learning about the cognitive, emotional, physical and social aspects of sexuality. It aims to equip children and young people with the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values that will empower them to realise their health, wellbeing and dignity. The International Planned Parenthood Foundation (IPPF) has committed to the foundation of a CSE Institute and is seeking the OU's technical support to operationalise it. The purpose of this small pilot project is to explore and test the potential for online and blended approaches developed by OU in collaboration with the CSE Institute to: (a) Overcome some of the common obstacles to engagement and delivery of CSE within a pilot IPPF Region taking account of political, cultural, economic, and geographical conditions. (b) Facilitate the co-design, co-author & production of learning resources, for use by IPPF Member Associations (MAs) in the pilot Region. Outputs: • Up to 4 hours of on-line co-produced, evidence-based and context sensitive learning and teaching resources around identified key aspects of CSE content and delivery. • Once developed, the blended learning and teaching resources are flexible enough to be tailored for use in different contexts. • All resources will be made available openly through one of the OU’s existing digital platforms and act as an exemplar for the attraction of further funding to develop/re-version materials for other Regions and other CSE topics

This seminar will bring together those who have been involved in conducting applied social scientific research over the last 20 years with early career researchers and people living with HIV to consider this period under three interrelated headings: Subjectivities, Identities & Collectivities. The potentiality for ‘life with HIV’ has been dramatically enhanced over this period. Here we explore what the manifold experiences of living with HIV might tell us about emerging or novel HIV-related identities, intimacies and socialities. Materialities As the quantity of life with HIV increases and the population ages, material questions come to the fore. What structural inequalities and material deprivations have emerged during this period and how have these been responded to? What forms of capital are at mobilised in these responses? Governance & Resistance What kinds of mechanisms are used to regulate the lives of people living with or at risk for HIV and how have these processes been described or theorised? What governmental technologies have emerged or been deployed? What political forms or groups have coalesced around HIV during this period and how do they differ from those which were prominent prior to the treatment era?