b. Methodologies: Project partners or other interested individuals use archive materials as basis of spin-off activities

Scenarios from the Sahel jurors repeatedly emphasized that they felt it was a terrible shame that so many good scenarios were being left by the wayside.
They need not be.
Those same jurors, in the course of some brainstorms, came up with many ideas as to how the remaining scenarios might be used, including: radio shows; anthologies of scenarios, or of songs, poems or comics; theater plays; and slide shows based on some of the drawings.
When you set up the archive, try to do so in a way that is as conducive to such spin-offs as possible. All the while, however, be sure not to lose sight of the following:
C Some of the scenarios do indeed contain imperfections, up to and including dangerous misinformation. Those who use archival materials must bear in mind the fact that most of the scenarios were not written by experts in the area of HIV prevention, and that they might well need some kind of adaptation before they can be published or used in some other form.
C The spirit of the entire project is non-profit. Ensure, perhaps by having archive users sign a relevant form, that archive materials are not exploited for financial gain. What would the young authors think if that were to happen?
C Require (again, perhaps by having archive users sign an agreement) that the young author_s name figure prominently in any work in which his or her scenario or any part of it is used or mentioned. (Please recall that the public use of the young author_s name is an issue that must be considered against the backdrop of the legal culture and perspectives on privacy in your region.)
C The physical integrity of the archive materials must be carefully protected. Unless you photocopy everything, what_s lost is lost for good. (By the way, we would recommend photocopying the semi-finalist and winning scenarios and storing the originals somewhere safe.)

Try to establish a system for monitoring alternative uses of the archival materials. Encourage people to provide the archive with a copy of any products created using the scenarios.

You may want to consider budgeting into your project a program of micro-grants for organizations interested in carrying out projects based on Scenarios archive materials. We recently came across an interesting program of the US-based Hesperian Foundation (the Creative Education Fund) that could serve as a model for selecting and supporting archive-based projects. That Fund provides small-scale financial support to micro-projects designed to adapt and apply Hesperian publications in an innovative fashion. The Hesperian Foundation is the creator/publisher of Where Women Have No Doctor, Where There is No Doctor, and several other valuable works. See: www.hesperian.com.

c. Methodologies: Analysis of questionnaire data

Once all of the data from the contest participants_ questionnaires have been entered into the data base, analysis (including fascinating cross-analyses) can commence.
Whatever method you choose for data analysis, pre-test it thoroughly.
Subjects of analysis.
After carrying out an initial round of number crunching, designed to produce the raw data from the questionnaire, you can turn to cross-analyses of particular interest to project partners and to other parties. During the selection process, you might have asked the jurors to express their special priorities for this exercise. You could start by fulfilling their requests.
Who will conduct those cross-analyses?
You might want to consider training a group of people in data analysis with the software in question, thus providing them with useful skills (and that means capacity building for their organizations) and creating a group of people who could be called upon to fulfill requests for cross-analysis.
Caution!
When conducting data analysis and text analysis, and when drafting reports on your results, please remember one very important thing: The information you are gleaning is not from a random sample of young people in the zone in question; rather, the contest participants self-selected. Your information might well be of tremendous relevance and importance, but it is not representative of the young population at large.