Grants and Contributions:

Protecting Access to Safe Abortion and Contraception During COVID-19

7420952 P009509001

$2,000,000.00

Jun 22, 2020 - Mar 31, 2021

The project aims to improve access to abortion and contraceptive services in the context of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which has threatened access to contraception and family planning. This project works to ensure that people most in need have access to sexual and reproductive health and rights services during this critical time. This is done by strengthening the abortion ecosystem to fast track, and support key innovations in abortion and contraceptive care, while helping low-resource countries build workarounds that help de-medicalize and streamline abortion care across the ecosystem. This includes supporting health facilities that are already under stress by the demands of the global pandemic. The project expects to benefit women who are the most marginalized, including those who are disabled, migrants, Indigenous, poor, young, those lacking literacy skills, etc.

Global Affairs Canada

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) developed guidelines for Personal Protective Equipment for healthcare workers and ensure that these are realistic for low-resource settings so that they can adhere to health guidelines; (2) provided support to women and girls to access abortion through advocating for and training staff to use medication abortion, including abortion self-care; (3) pharmacists are trained virtually to give the right dosage of abortion with pills and the correct information so people can safely end a pregnancy; and urging the integration of medical abortion services in telemedicine programs that offer primary care service; (4) addressed shortages of commodities and undertaking innovative data collection using mobile or online technologies to capture the impact on women’s access; and (5) work with humanitarian partners to include abortion self-care, and telemedicine in the services offered to women in humanitarian settings.

Chapel Hill, US

064-2020-2021-Q3-00409

Grant

Grants and Contributions

561071085

Not-for-profit organization or charity

Belated reporting that should have been included in the 2020-2021 1st Quarter report.

Ipas

International Development Assistance Program

The main purpose on the International Development Assistance Program is to reduce poverty for those living in countries where Global Affairs Canada engages in international development.