Project profile — Power to Choose

• Honduras (8.00%)
• Lebanon (8.00%)
• Congo, Democratic Republic (30.00%)
• Palestine (8.00%)
• Ghana (31.00%)
• Jordan (7.00%)
• Bolivia (8.00%)

• Health, General: Medical services (12191) (5.00%)
• Population policy and administrative management:
Population policy and administrative management (13010) (25.00%)
Reproductive health care (13020) (30.00%)
Family planning (13030) (15.00%)
Personnel development for population and reproductive health (13081) (5.00%)
• Government And Civil Society, General: Ending violence against women and girls (15180) (15.00%)
• Unallocated/ Unspecified: Promotion of development awareness (99820) (5.00%)

• Gender equality (principal objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (significant objective)
• Participatory development and good governance (significant objective)
• Children's issues (significant objective)
• Youth Issues (principal objective)
• Nutrition (significant objective)

This project aims to improve access to sexual and reproductive health care for vulnerable and marginalized adolescent girls and young women in Bolivia, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ghana, Honduras, Jordan, Lebanon, and the occupied Palestinian territory. Project activities include: (1) educating and working with adolescent girls and young women on topics related to their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR); (2) educating and working with adolescent boys and young men on issues such as gender equality, SRHR, and cultural practices related to masculinity, gender, and sexuality; (3) training health care workers to provide inclusive and accessible sexual and reproductive health services and practices, particularly to adolescent girls and young women; (4) providing better equipment to health facilities across the project countries, in order to improve their capacity to offer comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services; and (5) working with civil society organizations and rights’ groups to advocate for better SRHR related policy. The project works to benefit over 90,000 adolescent girls and young women across the project countries. This project works in partnership with the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada(SOGC), and RNW Media, as well as numerous local women’s rights groups and youth organizations across the project countries.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) increased equitable use of sexual and reproductive health services by young women and adolescent girls; (2) improved provision of gender-responsive, inclusive and accountable sexual and reproductive health services by health care providers for diverse groups of young women and adolescent girls; and (3) improved effectiveness of key stakeholders, led by women and girls’ rights organizations, to advocate for evidence-based health care policies, accountable legal framework, equitable and inclusive services.

Results achieved as of March 2025 include: (1) supported 93 health facilities through capacity strengthening, training, mentoring, equipment, supplies, material or refurbishment; (2) 28,300 youth and 531 teachers (268 women and 215 men) trained within comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights programs; (3) enabled 102 new or improved sexual and reproductive health and rights services for adolescent girls, young men and marginalized groups at supported health facilities; and (4) strengthened political commitment of 42 policymakers on sexual and reproductive health issues through project engagement.

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