Papua New Guinea (2011): HIV PREVENTION AND CONTROL IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT ENCLAVES PROJECT: "TOKAUT NA TOKSTRET!" MARITAL RELATIONSHIP TRAINING

A key component of PSI/PNG's activities within the Rural Development Enclaves Project is the "Tokaut na Tokstret!" (Talk Out and Talk Straight) behavior change initiative. A key component of the TnT initiative is a four-day Marital Relationship Training (MRT) workshop for married couples. MRT aims to prevent transmission of HIV by reducing married men and women's number of sexual partners outside the marriage (concurrency). The evaluation used a well-established, rapid, highly participatory methodology designed to explore sensitive issues with non-literate/poorly educated, marginalised populations. Rapid Participatory Ethnographic Evaluation and Research(Rapid PEER) enables projects to gain in-depth insight into the beliefs, behaviours and understandings of beneficiaries, in the full context of their lived experience.