ZAZI: A Participatory Programme on Sexual and Reproductive Health for Women and Girls - A Toolkit for Facilitators

This toolkit has been developed by the ZAZI campaign for use by peer educators, community outreach workers, faith-based organisations, and traditional health practitioners to help facilitate participatory discussions on sexual and reproductive health with women aged between 20 and 49 years of age. ZAZI is a campaign developed by women for women in South Africa, which celebrates the strength of South African women. It promotes self confidence amongst women so that they can draw upon their own strength to make positive choices for their future, and "encourages young women to resist peer pressure and define their own values so that they can prevent unwanted pregnancies, HIV, have a safe pregnancy and healthy baby when they choose to fall pregnant."(See Related Summary below for more information)
The toolkit can be used for one hour-long, half-day, full-day, or longer workshops, and facilitators are encouraged to adapt sessions to meet the needs of the participating group. There are also suggestions for adapting the workshops for teenage girls aged 16-19.
The toolkit is divided into the following 10 content sections:

• Section 1: Being a woman in South Africa today
• Section 2: Women and relationships
• Section 3: Women and their bodies
• Section 4: Women’s sexual health
• Section 5: Women and planning or preventing pregnancy
• Section 6: Women and safe pregnancy
• Section 7: Women and the prevention of HIV
• Section 8: Women and gender-based violence
• Section 9: Women and healthy lifestyles
• Section 10: Women getting involved

Each section is made up of the following:

• a purpose statement, which outlines the content of the section;
• background to the problem, which outlines why women need to know this information;
• an information section, which provides essential information on the topic;
• an activity section, which suggests participatory activities for the facilitator to go through with groups of women, so they can understand how to apply this information in their own lives; and
• a reference section, which suggests places to go for more information.