Description:
P006311001: The project aims to address barriers faced by women, adolescent girls and girls in achieving their optimal level of sexual and reproductive health, and asserting their sexual and reproductive rights in selected districts of Bangladesh, El Salvador, the Philippines and Sudan. The project works to improve sexual and reproductive health and rights through advocacy, as central to a human rights approach. Project activities include: (1) advocating to government at local, state or national levels, as well as to non-governmental decision-makers, in order for them to enact policy or legislative change and to implement these changes; (2) delivering sexual and reproductive health and rights services paired with advocacy; and (3) increasing awareness of sexual and reproductive health and rights, including the right to be free from sexual and gender-based violence, within communities, schools, and in public awareness campaigns to promote national dialogue on the barriers to those rights and the need for change.
The project targets an estimated 25,000 direct beneficiaries comprised of 19,234 women and 5,766 men.
P006311002: This project will enable Inter Pares to conduct activities to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 in El Salvador and Bangladesh over an 18-month period. The response focuses on strengthening Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) knowledge and advocacy, services and support. Local partners, Colectiva Feminista and Nijera Kori, will conduct online campaigns to raise awareness about the increased risk of sexual gender-based violence (SGBV), teenage pregnancies, and marital rape due to the conditions arising from the pandemic, and they will undertake research on the impact of COVID-19 on women, SRHR and the LGTBI+ population.
Project activities include:(1) strengthening youth group SRHR knowledge and advocacy through interactive activities, including artistic workshops that will allow them to recognize and defend their sexual and reproductive rights; (2) increasing phone support lines in two new regions in El Salvador to provide women and adolescents with SRHR/SGBV information and counselling; (3) establishing adolescent-friendly spaces in Nijera Kori sub-centres in Bangladesh to allow adolescents to learn and discuss SRHR/SGBV topics, show films, and learn about protecting themselves on social media – all while following COVID-19 health protocols; (4) undertaking an online campaign to raise awareness about the increased risk of SGBV and teenage pregnancies due to the conditions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic; and (5) completing research and a report on the issue of SGBV and marital rape in Bangladesh.
This project expects to reach 2,330 people in Bangladesh and over 4,000 people in El Salvador. An additional 20,000 people will receive SRHR and SGBV violence information through online campaigns, and 49,300 family and community members will benefit indirectly from all of these activities.
Expected Results:
P006311001: The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) improved provision of gender-responsive and adolescent-friendly comprehensive sexuality education, and sexual and reproductive health services in targeted communities; (2) improved response to sexual and gender-based violence, including early and forced marriage in targeted communities; and (3) increased government and civil society responsiveness to the sexual and reproductive health rights of women and adolescent girls.
P006311002: The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) Increased utilization of gender-responsive and adolescent-friendly SRHR services in targeted communities; (2) Improved response to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) including early and forced child marriage in targeted communities; and (3) Increased government and civil society responsiveness to the SRHR of women and adolescent girls.