Grants and Contributions

The project also seeks to strengthen social and political support for, and improve access to, high quality, safe and legal abortion and contraceptive services for women and adolescent girls. Project activities include: (1) providing training and support for journalists to promote balanced media coverage and reporting on SRHR; (2) providing training for law enforcement agents to increase their understanding and promote attitude transformation regarding SRHR, unsafe abortion and abortion laws; (3) partnering with civil society to conduct community-based trainings on SRHR with key groups including faith leaders, women's groups, and youth groups; and (4) providing support and supplies to health facilities to increase the availability of comprehensive safe and legal abortion and contraceptive services.

Project activities include: (1) strengthening the capacity of local research partners to generate quality evidence on safe abortion care, specifically in Rwanda, Ethiopia, and Bangladesh; (2) generating objective and peer-reviewed evidence on the social and economic impacts of providing access to safe abortion; and (3) generating objective and peer-reviewed evidence on how stakeholders in Sub-Saharan African countries are responding to the roll-back of woman's rights to access safe and legal abortion in other countries.

To support the federal government’s commitment to maintain a strong and effective publicly funded health care system through investments in emerging and demonstrated innovations in priority areas, such as palliative and end-of-life care, home and community care, mental health care and other federal, provincial-territorial and emerging priorities.

It also aims to ensure that these women and girls have access to the full range of SRH services, especially safe and legal abortion. Project activities include: (1) establishing two training centres in existing hospitals and training 475 health workers. This includes training 325 health providers on comprehensive abortion care and integrating gender-based violence services; and training 25 pharmacists on medical abortion.

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.

P006615001: The project comprehensively aims to build the humanitarian sector’s capacity to rapidly provide sexual and reproductive health and services in fragile and conflict settings.

Project activities include: (1) providing technical assistance and support to clinical facilities in order for them to develop or increase their capacity to provide contraceptive and sexual and gender-based violence services to refugee women in Cox’s Bazar; (2) providing training and support for clinical service providers and community mobilizers; and (3) developing an adapted toolkit and set of guidelines for providing comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services.

P006615002: The project comprehensively aims to build the humanitarian sector’s capacity to rapidly provide sexual and reproductive health and services in fragile and conflict settings.

Project activities include: (1) providing technical assistance and support to clinical facilities in order for them to develop or increase their capacity to provide contraceptive and sexual and gender-based violence services to refugee women in Cox’s Bazar; (2) providing training and support for clinical service providers and community mobilizers; and (3) developing an adapted toolkit and set of guidelines for providing comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services.

Through the application of national and local priorities, the CSJ program seeks to provide youth, particularly those who face barriers to employment with access to work opportunities. Funded employers must demonstrate that they are providing quality work experiences for youth that provide opportunities to develop and improve their skills.

This project aims to address key gender inequality and human rights issues, particularly: harmful social norms regarding gender and sexuality; lack of adequate information on or access to comprehensive SRH services particularly for safe abortion; lack of decision-making power by girls and women regarding their health and sexuality; as well as limited capacity of civil society organizations (CSOs) including women’s rights organizations and youth-led organizations to effectively advocate for SRHR at local, national, regional and international levels.