Project profile — Spotlight+ Initiative: Promotion of Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and Girls

The expected results for this project include: 1) increased access to holistic and quality support services by women and girls survivors of SGBV; 2) improved capacities of providers of obstetrical and neonatal care to offer quality services that take into account the rights and needs of women and girl; 3) improved access of adolescent girls to complete sexual and reproductive health services that take into account their rights and needs including family planning and the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases; 4) increased capacities of women and girls to provide a strong leadership and to participate in decision making related to their sexual and reproductive health and rights; and 5) improved attitudes and strengthened capacities of religious and traditional leaders, in particular of men's and boys in regards to the respect of gender equality and women and adolescent girls' sexual and reproductive rights.

Results achieved as of March 2023 include: (1) developed a map of emergency obstetric and neonatal care (EmONC) maternity units and their networking in ten regions of the country; (2) established two radio stations called "Radio Voix des femmes" in the Ségou and Mopti regions; (3) treated 155 women with obstetric fistula; (4) recruited and deployed 43 new midwives in the regions of Ségou, Mopti, Gao and Timbuktu to bring services closer to the population and strengthen the health system's resilience; (5) established and renovated four maternity units in humanitarian areas; and (6) setting up a One Stop Center and a women's center in humanitarian areas.