Project profile — Girls Reproductive Health, Rights and Empowerment Accelerated in Tanzania

• Tanzania (100.00%)

• Basic Health: Basic nutrition (12240) (15.00%)
• Population policy and administrative management:
Population policy and administrative management (13010) (15.00%)
Reproductive health care (13020) (35.00%)
Family planning (13030) (30.00%)
STD control including HIV/AIDS (13040) (5.00%)

• Gender equality (principal objective)
• Children's issues (significant objective)
• Youth Issues (principal objective)
• Nutrition (principal objective)

This project works to empower and to improve the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and well-being of vulnerable Tanzanian adolescent girls through a multifaceted and comprehensive approach and by working with adolescent boys and girls, parents, communities and governments. Project activities include: (1) scaling-up the supply (provision of and access to services) and demand (request for and use of services) for a full range of SRHR and nutrition services and information for adolescent girls; (2) establishing a platform for adolescent girls to share views on, and gain knowledge of, their SRHR, nutrition and empowerment issues, and leverage this platform for SRHR advocacy; (3) building evidence for enhanced government programming, policy, advocacy and accountability in adolescent girls' SRHR and nutrition issues and gaps, and propose innovative solutions; (4) training approximately 1,162 healthcare workers in 581 health facilities, and 3,350 community health workers; (5) raising the awareness of over 227,500 adolescent girls and 200,000 adolescent boys on their SRHR and on nutrition issues through community and school interventions and activities, as well as providing leadership training; (6) reaching approximately 850,000 adolescent girls and boys through youth-targeted radio programs and media interventions; and (7) raising the awareness of approximately 200,000 adolescent boys and 30,000 parents on harmful norms, gender roles and social attitudes that are barriers to the well-being and empowerment of adolescent girls.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) improved provision of, and adolescent girls' use of, gender-responsive adolescent-friendly SRHR and nutrition services; and (2) strengthened evidence base for more effective adolescent SRHR planning and implementation.

Results achieved as of March 2024 include: (1)150,287 (132,395 F; 17,892 M) adolescents and young people reached with adolescent SRHR and nutrition services through health facility platforms in the selected districts in mainland and Zanzibar; (2) 379,307 adolescents were reached with adolescent sexual and reproductive health services, sexual and gender-based violence prevention/response, nutrition and rights information through Health Care Workers (HCWs)/Community Health Volunteers (CHVs); (3) 8.8 million adolescents (51.6% F) adolescents reached through ONGEA (talk in Swahili) clubs (radio talk program) that aims to empower them; (4) 16,439 religious/traditional leaders, influential elders and 39,906 parents/caregivers have been reached with adolescent sexual and reproductive health services, sexual and gender-based violence prevention/response, nutrition and rights information; (5) 1,373 (905 F; 468 M) health care workers (HCWs) trained for (or in) delivering gender sensitive adolescent SRHR and nutrition counselling to adolescents, (6) 3,062 (2,038 F; 1,024 M) community health workers (CHW) trained on developing skills and knowledge to identify and reduce their biases in the provision of reproductive health services to young clients; (7) 597,100 adolescents (383,010 F; 212,090 M) were reached with SRHR and nutrition information and services during year 5 bringing the total to 2,170,865 of adolescents reached by the project; (8) 4,099 teachers (65 % females, 35% males) in Mbeya, Songwe and Zanzibar were trained on life skills; (9) 299,937 adolescents reached in schools; (10) during year 5, in Zanzibar, an additional 17,623 adolescents (11,219 F, 6,404 M) improved their knowledge and skills related to SRH, HIV and nutrition through peer education sessions run by 1,850 Youth Peer Educators (1,150 F; 700 M) trained in the previous years.

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