Project profile — Owning their reproductive health choices: Tanzanian women and girls decide

• Tanzania (100.00%)

• Reproductive health care:
Reproductive health care (13020) (60.00%)
Family planning (13030) (30.00%)
Personnel development for population and reproductive health (13081) (10.00%)

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (significant objective)
• Participatory development and good governance (significant objective)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (significant objective)
• Youth Issues (significant objective)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• Nutrition (significant objective)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

This project seeks to reduce unintended pregnancies and improve women’s and girls’ access to youth-friendly, life-saving reproductive health services. This is done by supporting MST’s outreach teams, network of clinics, and public-sector health care providers. The project aims to increase rural and urban communities’ access to quality family planning and integrated sexual and reproductive health services and rights, including access to modern methods of contraception. It also aims to improve the capacity of public sector providers to deliver quality Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights services and counselling.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) increased access and use of quality family planning and other integrated sexual and reproductive health services among women and girls in Tanzania; and (2) improved capacity of public-sector providers to deliver comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services for women and girls in Tanzania, including family planning and youth-friendly services.

Results achieved at the end of the project (December 2022) include: (1) provided comprehensive quality family planning services to 693,407 clients (605,494 women and 27,913 men), generating 2,207,394 couple-years of protection. These services prevented an estimated 1,740 maternal deaths, 989,447 unintended pregnancies, and 263,081 unsafe abortions; (2) reached a total of 75,152 adolescents ages 15 to 19 years (66,512 women and 8,640 men) with sexual reproductive health and rights services; and (3) trained over 113 government health care providers across 44 government facilities to deliver family planning services in rural and difficult-to-reach areas.

• Proactive disclosure