Project profile — Power, Opportunities, Rights, Equity and Respect for Women and Adolescent Girls

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) reduced incidence of sexual and gender-based violence among adolescent girls and young women; and (2) reduced pregnancies among adolescent girls.

Results achieved as of March 2023 include: (1) provided vocational training to 3,319 people, including out-of-school adolescent girls and young women, contributing to their economic empowerment; (2) raised awareness of 10,575 teachers, parents, community leaders, Women’s Health Committees’ members and violence interrupters - elected positions mandated to monitor instances of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) - through provision of 946 workshops on detecting and preventing SGBV, providing support to survivors, and advocating for SGBV eradication; (3) established 87 Girls’ and Boys’ Clubs, and 197 Youth Councils which provided safe spaces to more than 4,300 adolescent girls and boys, and helped increase their awareness of their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR); (4) provided training in adolescent-specific SRHR services to more than 1,500 members of Women’s Health Committees, Community Health Facilitators and Midwives; and (5) provided SRHR services (e.g. HIV and STI counselling and testing, care, support and treatment; pregnancy testing and pre- and post-test counselling and support; maternity care, etc.) to 11,521 people, including 6,838 adolescent girls and young women.