WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO

Use the data to develop your Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) for the Programme, which consists of the following:

• A series of workshops run with all health and safety representatives (total of 50 people) in groups of about 10. The groups are homogenous for language and job grading. The workshops each last 2 hours and 5 workshops are run over the full programme. The workers are trained to act as facilitators of training for other workers in the factory. They are then meant to run similar workshops for co-workers, but only 3 workshops are planned for the "final recipients" of the training.
• The workshops are run by Wola Nani, a non-governmental HIV project that charges R500 per workshop. The primary aims of the workshops are to increase knowledge and understanding about HIV, as well as to improve workers self-awareness and practice of behaviours that reduce HIV transmission. The workshops then go on to train participants to act as trainers of other workers, on the basis that the most effective trainers are peer educators.
• From previous experience, Wola Nani claim that their programme is able to reduce the incidence rates of HIV by about 50% in similar urban workforces.
• The workshops may also encourage participants to become more involved in HIV education amongst their peers, and may also encourage workers to seek HIV testing.
• In addition to the workshop, the programme includes the production of a series of posters (1 poster for every 25 employees) and pamphlets (ratio of 2 pamphlets for every one employee) providing information on HIV, and on testing for HIV, both at the plant and outside the plant, as well as services for people with HIV or wanting to be tested. To prepare the media materials, the safety representatives will need two meetings of an hour long each.