Project profile — Uniting Towards Gender Equality for the Total Health and Rights of Women and Girls

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) increased equitable use of inclusive, respectful and quality health services by the most vulnerable adolescent girls’, women’s and children’s (under the age of five years old) rights holders living in Indigenous, remote or resettlement settings of target areas; (2) improved provision of gender-responsive, inclusive and environment-sensitive health and nutrition services by duty-bearers and responsibility-holders for the most vulnerable adolescent girls, women and children under the age of 5 years old in target areas; and (3) increased community-led, evidence-based multi-sectoral actions in reducing structural barriers preventing realization of health-related rights by the most vulnerable adolescent girls, women and children under the age of 5 years old in target areas.

Results achieved as of March 2023 include: (1) trained 7,098 adolescent girls, young women, boys and young men on life skills, negotiation, sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), sexual and reproductive health and rights , and climate resilience; (2) offered training to 1,196 teachers and educators on gender transformative comprehensive sexuality education; (3) trained 3,209 caregivers, pregnant and lactating women, and their partners on gender-responsive, environment and climate-sensitive nutrition and kitchen gardening; (4) trained 807 community health care providers on women-centred, safe, inclusive care and counselling on health, sexual and reproductive health and rights and SGBV responses; (5) 51 community groups in Cambodia, Kenya, Uganda and the Philippines completed group action plans to address SGBV, unintended pregnancies, or sex work in an inclusive process; and (6) 549 community leaders, authorities and stakeholders participated in health and rights-focused mobilization efforts to support community groups addressing unintended pregnancies and SGBV in Cambodia, Kenya, Uganda and the Philippines.