Project profile — Strategic Interventions to Build Momentum on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

• Sudan (20.40%)
• Bangladesh (20.80%)
• Philippines (38.90%)
• El Salvador (19.90%)

• Population policy and administrative management:
Population policy and administrative management (13010) (32.00%)
Reproductive health care (13020) (10.00%)
Family planning (13030) (17.00%)
STD control including HIV/AIDS (13040) (3.00%)
Personnel development for population and reproductive health (13081) (12.00%)
• Women's rights organisations and movements, and government institutions:
Women's rights organisations and movements, and government institutions (15170) (10.00%)
Ending violence against women and girls (15180) (16.00%)

• Gender equality (principal objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (principal 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 (not targeted)
• Youth Issues (significant objective)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)
• Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) (not targeted)
• Nutrition (not targeted)

The project aims to address barriers faced by women, adolescent girls and girls in achieving their optimal level of sexual and reproductive health, and asserting their sexual and reproductive rights in selected districts of Bangladesh, El Salvador, the Philippines and Sudan. The project works to improve sexual and reproductive health and rights through advocacy, as central to a human rights approach. Project activities include: (1) advocating to government at local, state or national levels, as well as to non-governmental decision-makers, in order for them to enact policy or legislative change and to implement these changes; (2) delivering sexual and reproductive health and rights services paired with advocacy; and (3) increasing awareness of sexual and reproductive health and rights, including the right to be free from sexual and gender-based violence, within communities, schools, and in public awareness campaigns to promote national dialogue on the barriers to those rights and the need for change. The project targets an estimated 25,000 direct beneficiaries comprised of 19,234 women and 5,766 men.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) improved provision of gender-responsive and adolescent-friendly comprehensive sexuality education, and sexual and reproductive health services in targeted communities; (2) improved response to sexual and gender-based violence, including early and forced marriage in targeted communities; and (3) increased government and civil society responsiveness to the sexual and reproductive health rights of women and adolescent girls.

Results achieved as of March 2024 include: (1) in the Philippines, 19,354 adolescents received sexual reproductive health and rights services such as family planning, maternal and newborn care, post-abortion care and sexually transmitted infection screening; (2) in Bangladesh, 60,675 women and girls accessed sexual and reproductive health and rights services, including modern contraceptive methods; (3) in El Salvador, the partner contributed to the implementation of 5 new municipal plans and policies related to violence prevention; and (4) a total of 142,228 people across the program received training (women, girls, men, boys, decision-makers and educators) on sexual and reproductive health and rights related themes.

• Proactive disclosure
• Related activities: Strategic Interventions to Build Momentum on SRHR - Response to COVID-19