Description:
This project aims to improve the exercise of the right to sexual and reproductive health (SDSR) of 68,470 Haitians who are direct beneficiaries (20,153 women / 14,424 girls / 19,754 men / 14,139 boys) and 116,724 Haitians who are indirect beneficiaries (23,153 women / 14,424 girls / 19,754 men / 14,139 boys) and 116,724 Haitian indirect beneficiaries (23 736 women, 35210 girls, 34512 boys and 23266 men). Direct beneficiaries targeted by age group include 9,121 girls and 8,940 boys aged 7-14, 5,304 adolescent girls and 5,198 adolescents aged 15-19, as well as 20,153 adult women and 19,754 adult men aged 20-45 in the municipalities of Léogâne and Gress Western Department of Haiti. Implemented by L'UVRE LÉGER, Social Justice Connection (CJS) and the Haitian Institute of Community Health (INHSAC), the project will work on two fronts: the first aimed at improving the efficiency and effectiveness of community and societal actions Leogane and Gressier, particularly women and adolescents, youth and women's groups, to assert their sexual and reproductive health rights (rights holders); and the second, to support this same civil society to initiate a dialogue on the SDSR with political leaders, officials and managers of the health institutions of the two municipalities and the communal health coordination body (Community Health Unit strengthen the accountability of these same institutions (debtors) to their communities. The project will use an innovative and proven methodology, TRANS21, to improve, strengthen and enhance citizen participation in the SDSR sector in an endogenous and participatory manner. This project will also help support Haiti's Ministry of Public Health and Population (MSPP) in the implementation of the National Health Policy (2012), the National Sexual and Reproductive Health Strategic Plan 2018-2022, the National Community Participation Strategy and, more generally, the 2012-2022 Health Master Plan.
Because SDSR issues are intrinsically linked to gender equality and gender-based violence (GVb), the project will also aim to strengthen women's and girls' empowerment in sDSRs in terms of access to information, education and health and family planning services (through referencing to local services supported by the Maternal and Child Health Project (PROSAMI) implemented by L'UVRE LÉGER and detailed more low). Combining these two initiatives will provide a holistic response to SDSR, enabling women and adolescents to make informed decisions, protect their health, claim their rights and mobilize to make them to health policy and program decision-makers in their region. As responsible for the implementation of the structuring outreach and training activities with the communities of Léogâne and Gressier, the Haitian NGO INHSAC will work closely in support and reinforcement with the Gressier and Léogâne (ROFGL) women's organizations for achieving the results. At the end of the project, the Group (newly formed in April 2017), its ten member organizations and other member organizations will become strong agents of civil society change in favour of the SDSR in the Western Department of the country. .
Expected Results:
Aimed at the populations living in 6 communal sections of the Municipalities of Leogane and Gressier of the Western Department of Haiti, this project aims to improve the exercise of the right to sexual and reproductive health (SDSR) of 68,470 Haitians direct beneficiaries (20,153 women / 14,424 girls / 19,754 men / 14,139 boys) and 116,724 Haitian indirect beneficiaries (23,736 women, 35210 girls, 34512 boys and 23266 men). Direct beneficiaries targeted by age group include 9,121 girls and 8,940 boys aged 7-14, 5,304 adolescent girls and 5,198 adolescents aged 15-19, as well as 20,153 adult women and 19,754 adult men aged 20-45.
As direct beneficiaries, the 420 women members of 10 women's BCCs in their membership network, the Gressier and Léogâne Women's Organizations (ROFGL) will experience changes in capacity as structures intermediaries associated with the project. For its part, INHSAC will act as both an intermediary and an executor, working to strengthen women's BCOs, ROFGL and health institutions, in its obligations to provide professional services. On the other hand, it will also benefit from the methodological innovation of the TRANS 21 approach introduced by ÉDUCONNEXION and will experience a significant change in capacity and performance in the delivery of its professional services, through coaching and formation.