Project profile — Addressing Gaps in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Egypt

• Egypt (100.00%)

• Population Policies/Programmes And Reproductive Health: Reproductive health care (13020) (100.00%)

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

The project aims to empower women and engage men by increasing the awareness of, access to and quality of, family planning services in Egypt. Egypt’s population has dramatically increased in the last decade, reaching almost 100 million people in 2018. Access to quality family planning services is critical for women and adolescent girls to lead healthy lives, and is part of an important strategy to address high population growth rates. The project also aims to address the barriers women, adolescent girls and girls face in accessing quality health services including social norms, behaviours and attitudes. Project activities include: (1) procuring contraceptives and developing a distribution plan in targeted areas; (2) designing and rolling out of a comprehensive curriculum for population and family planning education; and (3) organizing advocacy events to solidify the national commitment for family planning. The project is part of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) national program, which aims to reach 5,500 family planning clinics, 14,000 Ministry of Health and Population outreach workers, 2,500 women’s health clubs and 60 million people through a comprehensive media campaign on population and family planning.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) increased access to family planning and reproductive health services, particularly for women and adolescent girls; (2) educating youth, particularly adolescent girls, on the rights of women with regard to family planning, and raised public awareness of the value of smaller family size; and (3) strengthened government capacity to monitor the National Population Strategy and coordinate activities for empowering women with regard to family planning.

Results achieved as of March 2024 include: (1) trained 545 physicians (454 women and 91 men) in providing family planning services across 21 governorates; (2) organized 438 events and sessions by Population Awareness Clubs to confront sensitive issues regarding reproductive health at the community level, reaching 9,764 beneficiaries (5742 women and 4022 men) in 12 governorates; (3) conducted 100 rounds of campaigns by mobile clinics that offered vital health services, such as screenings, consultations, and education, to 201,858 women across 23 governorates; (4) provided 161,860 beneficiaries with family planning services, including 16,735 IUDs , 81,866 combined pills, 21,786 one-hormone pills, 9,072 combined injections, 28,468 one-hormone injections, 4,032 subdermal implants and 3,201 other methods, such as dispensing 19,925 condoms; (5) developed and broadcasted edutainment to promote positive messages on the use of contraceptives, early marriage, gender-based violence and female genital mutilation; (6) supported 17 Nawah Theatre teams, 24 Shamandora music teams and 3 films across 24 governorates; and (7) trained and empowered 935 youth to disseminate positive messages on population issues.

• Proactive disclosure