Grants and Contributions

This project aims to improve access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) among women and girls in the targeted countries. It focuses on safe abortion, family planning, and comprehensive sexuality education. Project activities include: (1) providing tools and technical assistance to national health ministries, civil society organizations, and professional associations. It seeks to help scale up access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services; (2) conducting and publishing research papers on a comprehensive SRHR; and (3) undertaking consultations, country-level dialogue, and coordination to help countries use evidence-based research to shape gender-responsive policies that better support women and girls’ access to SRHR.

Promoting Sexual, Reproductive Health and Rights of Women/Girls with Blindness and Other Disabilities at School and Self-Help Groups Through Orientation, Training and Advocacy in Sudur Pashim Province, Nepal

The Todas Avante project aims to increase the realization of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of in and out-of-school adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) aged 10-24 years in Nampula, Mozambique. It will build upon results and lessons learned from the GAC-funded Healthy Women and Girls project implemented by Plan Canada (P001262); and will adopt a comprehensive approach addressing three core pillars: demand, supply and accountability. Demand-side activities will focus on AGYW’s individual and collective agency to exercise their SRHR (inc., mentoring and training AGYW, and training community leaders and initiation rites practitioners). Supply-side activities will be done through health systems strengthening (inc., rehabilitation/construction of 8 health facilities/SAAJs and training healthcare workers on SRH, safe abortion and post-abortion care, sexual and gender-based violence and mental health). To improve accountability, the project will target 8 local organizations (inc., women’s rights and LGBTQIA+ organizations) with capacity building, networking, and influencing opportunities (inc. conducting evidence-based advocacy on GE and SRHR). The initiative will directly benefit 89,340 people comprising 55,537 AGYW aged 10-24 years, and 10,949 adolescent boys and young men.

Providing comprehensive assistance for migrants through sexual health promotion, prevention of human trafficking, increased knowledge on human rights and support for regularization procedures in Tapachula, Mexico.

This project aims to empower women and adolescent girls and improve their sexual and reproductive health, as well as maternal and infant health, in the Tchologo region of Côte d’Ivoire.

The project’s activities include: (1) analyzing gender roles within the community and identifying socio-cultural barriers to access to services and risk factors; (2) raising awareness among communities, mothers, husbands and adolescents to improve behaviours related to sexual and reproductive health, maternal and infant health, nutrition, and outbreak prevention; (3) supporting members of women’s and adolescent girls’ associations in establishing healthy and sustainable association management mechanisms; (4) training and raising awareness among community leaders and officials on inclusive governance so that women and adolescent girls can participate in local decision making; and (5) training women’s and adolescent girls’ associations on the use of referral services and mechanisms for survivors of gender based violence.

Through this 25-month project, Intersex Canada will strengthen the capacity of the intersex community in Canada and network with broader 2SLGBTQ organizations to advance human rights and equality for intersex people. Intersex Canada’s internal capacity will be strengthened through training for the organization’s leadership, developing a strategic plan, and developing a sustainability plan to address the organization’s capacity to be financially sustainable. The project will address the general lack of visibility of intersex in the 2SLGBTQ+ community and the general public. Key project activities will highlight the needs and advance the rights of intersex individuals, respect for body autonomy, recognition and bring to light the harmful practices done on intersex bodies. The organization will develop an advocacy plan to engage with health care providers to address intersex issues, convene intersex individuals to share lived experiences, engage with other organizations through conferences and develop educational and awareness raising materials to be shared in an online informational hub.

The project will help lower rates of adolescent pregnancy, and allow girls and young women in Belize and Suriname to realize their sexual and reproductive health and rights. The project will have positive impacts on adolescents and young people across both countries, but will focus on indigenous and tribal adolescent girls and young women in select regions of Belize and Suriname. The project will do this by making clinics more adolescent-friendly and culturally appropriate; increasing access to contraceptives; implementing an out-of-school comprehensive sexuality education curriculum to reach indigenous and tribal adolescents in their communities; creating and using culturally appropriate educational materials; and gathering and using data to help policymakers make informed decisions about advancing adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights, particularly for indigenous and tribal groups.

The project aims to increase women’s and girls’ bodily autonomy by expanding access to information and services related to sexual and reproductive health and rights, and to safe abortion care. Ipas DRC will work with government and community partners in the provinces of Nord-Kivu, Sud-Kivu, Haut Katanga, Tanganyika and Kinshasa to translate the enabling legal and policy framework into improved access to quality abortion care.
The project aims to improve women’s ability to make safe reproductive choices that support their educational and career goals, which makes a significant contribution to greater gender equality in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
This project’s vision is that a multi-sectoral group of stakeholders, including organizations working on broader socio-political issues, make sexual and reproductive health rights and safe abortion care a gender justice priority.
Project activities include: (1) training and supporting over 200 public- and private-sector health care providers (clinics, integrated health centres, etc.) to provide comprehensive abortion care; (2) supporting 85 health care facilities to offer sexual and reproductive health care, including contraception, abortion, post-abortion care and support in response to gender-based sexual violence; (3) training and supporting 40 community organizations in terms of sexual and reproductive health care; and (4) strengthening the system that refers people to appropriate facilities for abortion and sexual and gender-based violence support, and improving community dialogue on women’s and girls’ sexual and reproductive rights and on safe abortion among 24,000 people.
The project’s main beneficiaries are women and girls in the provinces of Nord-Kivu, Sud-Kivu, Haut-Katanga, Tanganyika and Kinshasa. As a result of this initiative, some 500,000 young people, 50% of them women, will receive information on sexual and reproductive health and rights, and at least 8,000 safe abortion procedures will be provided.

The project aims to advance adolescent girls’ health and empowerment by addressing sexual and reproductive rights, detrimental social and cultural norms, and government policies in Ethiopia. This project includes gender-specific results to address child, early and forced marriage (CEFM). Activities include: (1) enhancing capacities of local authorities to prevent and respond to CEFM; (2) providing at-risk girls with the skills and knowledge needed to help them determine their future; and (3) improving the capacity of community groups to change harmful traditional attitudes and practices to end CEFM. The project focuses on 6 municipalities of two regions of Ethiopia, targeting 175,000 adolescents, including 132,000 girls and 43,000 boys aged 10-19 years.

Improving girls' and women's health and promoting gender equality in rural areas of the Analamanga region of Madagascar by installing community midwives to provide quality, local sexual and reproductive health services and by mobilizing community stakeholders in the implementation of a campaign to promote sexual and reproductive health rights, including the fight against gender-based violence.