Project profile — Improving Integrated Health Services for Women, Teenage Girls and Children in Haiti

The project’s expected outcomes include: (1) improved front-line health care and services in the two target departments, particularly in sexual and reproductive health and nutrition, that take into account gender equality and women’s rights; and (2) greater use of quality health services, particularly by women of childbearing age, mothers and children under five, in part through a strengthened community participation approach.

Results achieved as of December 2021 include: (1) 30,412 women gave birth in health institutions in areas served by the project (representing 88% of the project’s target); these centres noted a decrease in the maternal mortality rate for deliveries between 2020 and 2021; (2) delivered sexual and reproductive health services to 82,039 women and girls of reproductive age, including modern methods of contraception (93.1% of the intended target); (3) the delivery rate for adolescent mothers and pregnant girls in the areas served by the project is 14.6% in 2021, a gap of 4.6% compared with the target of 10% set for 2022; (4) treated 2,521 children aged 0 to 5 (1,181 boys and 1,340 girls) for severe acute malnutrition (67.2% of the target) and (5) treated 6,457 children (2,868 boys and 3,589 girls) for moderate acute malnutrition (86.1% of the target).