Grants and Contributions

The project seeks to improve comprehensive sexual and reproductive health (SRH), including safe and legal abortions and post-abortion care for young women, especially adolescent girls, and help ensure the fulfillment of sexual and reproductive rights in targeted districts of Bolivia, Ecuador, Guyana and Peru.

Project activities include: (1) providing family planning and uptake of contraceptives; (2) providing post-abortion care; (3) providing cervical cancer screening and treatment; (4) establishing gender based violence (GBV) prevention activities and referral for GBV survivors; (5) developing awareness-raising and comprehensive sexuality education for adolescents, young

The project aims to improve the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of vulnerable and underserved women and adolescent girls in two urban slums in Dhaka, Bangladesh. In collaboration with local partners, project activities include: (1) providing training to health facility staff of 154 garment factories and clinics to provide quality contraceptive care responsive to needs of adolescents, and survivors of sexual and gender based violence; (2) facilitating social and behavior change to support women’s and adolescent girls’ needs with respect to SRHR; and (3) providing infrastructure, commodities, and technology required to provide quality woman-centered contraceptive service in the selected facilities. The project also strives to establish effective communication mechanisms to ensure adolescent girls and women have access to accurate information on the availability of contraceptive services and resources for sexual and gender based violence.

Project activities include: (1) delivering emergency obstetric, antenatal, delivery and postpartum services; (2) providing comprehensive abortion, family planning and sexually transmitted infection care; (3) offering quality support for survivors of gender-based violence; and (4) developing effective referral pathways for clinical and mental health care, psychosocial support and other health services.

Project activities include the following: (i) delivering better family planning services and post-abortion care to more than 200,000 women and adolescent girls; (ii) raising awareness among more than 1,000,000 people through interactive radio programs or other kinds of campaigns on sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and gender based violence (GBV); (iii) providing 465 community members, 120 female members of women’s groups, and at least 200 community health centre care providers and mobile midwives with training on SRH and GBV; (iv) training 16 district-level trainer-supervisors so as to ensure the sustainability and good governance of the health system; (v) holding sessions to lobby 150 key decision makers and policy leaders on SRH and GBV issues at the national and regional levels; and (vi) building the capacity of 20 media representatives to ensure awareness of and proper communication on the issues of gender inequality.

Project activities include: (1) building capacity of key district-level health workers; (2) addressing weaknesses with infrastructure, equipment and services (such as ensuring confidentiality); (3) strengthening referral systems, including for complicated post-abortion cases; (4) engaging men and boys as partners for change, sensitising community leaders, engaging community health committees; (5) providing family planning services through community health workers; and (6) generating and disseminating gender-sensitive research on SRHR and supporting the government’s capacity to collect, analyse and use SRH data effectively.

Project activities include: (1) utilizing nutrition-specific interventions, including iron and folic acid supplementation, as an entry point to provide young or pregnant girls with equitable, gender-responsive and adolescent-friendly sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), nutrition and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) protection services; (2) using youth-centered, feminist and rights-based interventions to empower girls of different age groups to respond to the distinct barriers faced by young adolescent girls (10-14 years of age), out-of-school older adolescents (17-19 years of age), nomadic and pastoral communities and hard to reach vulnerable populations such as pregnant adolescents; (3) building agency and empowering adolescents (10-19 years of age) to exercise their sexual and reproductive health and nutrition rights; (4) promoting a pandemic-responsive and resilient health system by improving health systems and infrastructure; (5) supporting and delivering an integrated package of SRHR and nutrition services, including family planning/contraception; gender-based violence prevention and response services, adolescent-friendly antenatal, postnatal and post-abortion care, and nutrition support and counseling; (6) promoting gender equality and income generation and entrepreneurial skills for girls and life skills training to support out-of-school older adolescent girls; (7) strengthening gender-responsive and adolescent-friendly governance and accountability systems and structures; and (8) increasing adolescent participation in community-based accountability platforms and redistributing the burden of unpaid care by addressing deeply entrenched social norms.

Activities will include developing and implementing a policy reform framework and a public engagement campaign; creating tools and resources; hosting skills-building sessions for local and regional stakeholders to engage in policy advocacy; developing and implementing a system to monitor policy and practice changes on abortion and contraception; adapting resources and approaches as needed; and sharing methods and findings with partners.

These results will be achieved through key project activities: (a) gender-sensitive training of healthcare providers at the puskesmas (health center) level, including on SRHR issues, emergency obstetric and neonatal care, family planning, post-abortion care, female genital care, gender-based violence and nutrition for mothers and girls; (b) creating or rehabilitating infrastructure, e.g. equipping selected puskesmas and creating mobile and satellite clinics for hard-to-reach communities ; (c) capacity-building and support for F&F, including those who are marginalized or vulnerable, in SRHR; (d) gender-sensitive training of community leaders on gender issues, for example by organizing community forums aimed at better dialogue between F&F and local power-holders, or by training religious and traditional leaders; (e) raising awareness of gender issues among boys, men and parents.

Project activities include: (1) aligning SRHR education and awareness messages with local priorities, national guidelines and best evidence; (2) establishing SRHR 'champions'; (3) identifying and addressing SRHR-related health system gaps; (4) providing SRHR-focused training; (5) providing minor upgrades and equipment for health facilities; and (6) improving quality of sexual and reproductive health services especially for post-abortion care, family planning, gender-based violence and HIV/STD management.