Grants and Contributions

This project aims to enhance equal enjoyment of comprehensive SRHR by marginalized people including women and girls, in all their diversity, at the global and local levels. Project activities include: (1) training beneficiaries (adolescents and other marginalized people) to effectively advocate for SRHR legal changes and better implementation of legal services; (2) training community volunteers to increase community awareness about safe abortion and facilitate referrals; and (3) creating meaningful SRHR engagement opportunities for youth at key global events.

Millions of people around the world still lack access to high quality sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services. This project aims to improve the comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of marginalised and underserved groups, particularly young women and adolescent girls in all their diversity in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and South Asia. The project provides services, training, and technical assistance in order to address harmful social norms and practices which will allow all people to make choices about their bodies and their lives.

Project activities include: (1) health workers trained and mentored to provide quality SRH services; (2) technical assistance on youth-centred programming and comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) provided by CSE Centres of Excellence based in Colombia, Ghana and Togo (3) Federation members’ supported with advocacy tools, and safety and security plans to engage with intergovernmental advocacy on SRHR, safe abortion, CSE and gender equality.

With GAC’s support, the International Planned Parenthood Federation and Profamilia work to improve access to urgent sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services and respond to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in crisis-affected communities.

In line with Canada’s 10-year Commitment to Global Health and Rights (2021-2030), which includes $700 million per year to scale up investments in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), this project will support SheDecides as a global advocacy platform to communicate, inform and expand rights based comprehensive SRHR priorities and approaches. By engaging and working with global leaders, including youth, this project aims to mobilize political and financial support to increase access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in developing countries, with a specific focus on supporting the bodily autonomy of women and girls.

Oxfam Canada is implementing this project in partnership with the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), the Guttmacher Institute, Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights, and various Women’s Rights Organizations and Youth-led Organizations across Uganda and Mozambique.

It will also involve CARE Haiti and two Haitian organizations with specific areas of intervention: Kay Fanm, a women's rights organization, and the Association for the Promotion of the Haitian Family (PROFAMIL), (IPPF) (International Planned Parenthood Federation).
The initiative will use a multi-sector, multi-sector approach, based on two components: 1) strengthening the continuum of care, integrating the participation of rights holders, including civil society organizations (CSOs), women's and adolescent rights organizations (ODDFA) and communities, through the development and provision of a rights-friendly set of sexual and reproductive health services and care (SSRs) tailored to age and gender for adolescent girls and women and managed according to principles of inclusive governance; and 2) active social mobilization of parents, men, adolescents and opinion leaders, and the strengthening of women's and adolescent sDRS knowledge to ensure positive social transformation in the targeted areas, Share; and, on the other hand, strengthening the capacity of civil society organizations (CSOs) to effectively promote RSDs nationally and internationally, to provide rSD and gender equality (EG) services, and to support victims of gender-based violence (VBG) in their efforts to call for the implementation of their RSDs.

With GAC’s support, the International Planned Parenthood Federation and Profamilia work to improve access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services and respond to sexual and gender-based violence in communities affected by the refugee and migrant crisis.

With GAC’s support, the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) is helping provide life-saving sexual and reproductive health services to up to 70,000 crisis-affected people in the departments of Arauca, Guajira and Norte de Santander in Colombia.

The project partner, International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), is a federation of Member Associations (MAs).