1. Brief overview

Many of the participants we asked why they had participated in the Scenarios from the Sahel contest said they had done so because this was an opportunity for them to be heard, to make a meaningful contribution to efforts to curb an epidemic that is ravaging their age group.
During the selection process, jurors _ by studying and discussing participants_ scenarios _ listened carefully to what the young people were saying, sought to identify the primary concerns being expressed, and began to explore and formulate strategies for responding to those concerns.

_The young people did some top-quality work _ quality with regard to their understanding of AIDS, quality with regard to the terminology and the psychology that they had in their ideas, quality with regard to the surprises they had in store for us, quality with regard to the morals that they expressed through their scenarios. After all those observations, well, it was difficult for us as jurors to have to let go of the scenarios of the some of the finalists and to leave them behind._

Victorine Yaméogo, PPLS/Burkina Faso, member of the Burkina Faso national jury and the final, regional jury

The Scenarios archives are an ongoing forum in which the young people_s voices continue to be heard and where their messages are taken to heart by a multiplicity of actors in a wide variety of ways.
The central archives, with their computerized catalogue, contain all the scenarios submitted during the contest, as well as a data base of the information contained in the participants_ questionnaires. The archives can be used to pursue three primary objectives:

C The archive materials are available to serve as the basis of spin-off activities of project partners or other interested individuals.
C Visitors can carry out analyses of the questionnaire data.
C Qualitative text analysis can be conducted on selections of scenarios.

The sections of this chapter are devoted to the establishment of the archive, and the above three objectives.