
Household Mentoring which is used to enable household members to jointly self-assess the challenges they face and identify the actions they would like to take. In particular, it is expected to help them address issues around HIV/AIDS and nutrition; improve the distribution of household tasks; better manage higher and regular incomes and make decisions more equitably on their use; improve household relations, wellbeing and self-confidence; and ultimately increase household incomes. The involvement of parents and their sons and daughters in the process will also help to create economic opportunities for youth. The activities will target 8,070 selected households. Households that “graduate” from the Household Mentoring programme after 12 to 24 months will be encouraged to assist others in their communities. To leverage its impact, the intervention will also target community leaders, and will work with oil palm growing households at the unit level where collaboration can generate benefits for all members. NOPP will also support complementary, district level efforts in the areas of HIV/AIDS, gender equality and nutrition efforts, with locally prioritised activities; and it will promote sports and cultural activities, as identified by community members, to in still healthy lifestyles among the youth, offer female youth an opportunity to participate in these types of activities, and create an entry point for discussing and identifying livelihood opportunities for rural youth.