Project profile — Support to Local Health Care Educational Communities for Women and Girls

• Mali (100.00%)

• Health, General: Health policy and administrative management (12110) (15.00%)
• Basic health infrastructure:
Basic health infrastructure (12230) (25.00%)
Health personnel development (12281) (15.00%)
• Reproductive health care:
Reproductive health care (13020) (15.00%)
Family planning (13030) (20.00%)
• Government And Civil Society, General: Ending violence against women and girls (15180) (10.00%)

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

The project aims to improve access to quality health services adapted to the needs of adolescent girls and women in Mali, in the regions of Bamako, Kayes, Koulikoro, Segou and Sikasso. Project activities include: (1) rehabilitating and providing equipment in public school institutions to address clinical training needs in primary health care/SRHR and environmental standards; (2) providing training and coaching teachers and supervisors on development programs in primary health care/sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), gender equality and environment; (3) implementing safe pilot facilities for pregnant women and survivors of gender based violence; and (4) developing and implementing comprehensive sexual education campaigns for adolescents and on positive masculinity for men and boys. The project aims to improve access to inclusive, quality and gender-responsive health system for 500,000 people, mainly women and girls. The project also aims to provide training to 2,800 health professionals.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) increased availability of new qualified health professionals in primary health care and sexual and reproductive health and rights; (2) increased use by women and girls of gender-sensitive primary health services/sexual and reproductive health and rights; and (3) increased effectiveness of the Health Human Resources Directorate in ensuring the development of an innovative and equitable model for the training, distribution and retention of healthcare workers.

Results achieved as of March 2024 include: 1) treated 1,186 women and girls aged 15 and over for cases of gender-based violence, mainly physical, emotional and economic abuse and rape; 2) 43,056 people have benefited from sexual and reproductive health services in the 7 Community-University Health Centers supported by the project; 3) the strategies developed by the project raised awareness of harassment among 47,183 people (32,719 women and teenagers); 4) the project has developed 11 continuing training programs integrating sexual and reproductive health and rights, and gender equality. These were designed to train senior staff from the Malian Ministry of Health's Human Resources Department and Permanent Secretariat for Gender Policy; 5) 100% of the women and girls (out of a sample of 100 individuals) cared for in the Community-University Health Centers supported by the project reported being satisfied with the primary health care/sexual and reproductive health and rights services in terms of reception, respect, confidentiality and completeness of the service offer.

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