Description:
This project seeks to improve the understanding and implementation of Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) of adolescent girls and young women (AGYW), particularly among Venezuelan migrants and refugees. The project aims to increase the protection of sexual and reproductive health and rights of adolescent girls and young women (AGYW), in all their diversity, in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Project activities include: (1) training on prevention of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) for adolescent girls and boys, SRHR, gender-transformative life skills and transformative masculinities; (2) training frontline protection and health service providers in gender-and adolescent-responsive and inclusive protection and SRHR service provision; (3) providing equipment and supplies for SRHR service providers, including menstrual health needs; (4) implementing a communications strategy to challenge negative gender norms, promote AGYW`s rights, the role of men and boys as allies, and the prevention of xenophobia; and (5) strengthening the capacity of local organizations, particularly women’s rights organizations, youth-led organizations and migrants rights organizations through virtual learning and multi-country exchange sessions for project staff and key actors.
The project aims to reach 122, 619 beneficiaries (65% women) aged 10 to 29. It directly benefits frontline protection and healthcare staff, community leaders, parents, caregivers, and partners. It also supports women’s rights organizations, youth-led organizations, migrant and refugee organizations and healthcare and protection facilities in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
Expected Results:
The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) increased individual and collective agency of adolescent girls and young women, particularly among Venezuelan migrants and refugees, in all their diversity, to exercise their sexual and reproductive health rights; (2) improved delivery of gender and adolescent-responsive and inclusive sexual and reproductive health services for adolescent girls and young women, particularly for Venezuelan migrants and refugees, in all their diversity; and (3) strengthened coordination of evidence-based, gender-transformative sexual and reproductive health services for adolescent girls and young women, especially Venezuelan migrants and refugees, by local organizations and local authorities.