Project profile — Improving the Health and Well-Being of Women and Adolescents in Southern Senegal

• Senegal (100.00%)

• Population policy and administrative management:
Population policy and administrative management (13010) (15.00%)
Reproductive health care (13020) (40.00%)
Family planning (13030) (28.00%)
STD control including HIV/AIDS (13040) (2.00%)
Personnel development for population and reproductive health (13081) (10.00%)
• Government And Civil Society, General: Ending violence against women and girls (15180) (5.00%)

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

This project seeks to improve access to sexual and reproductive health services (including family planning), as well as strengthening the capacity of community-based health workers to deliver sexual and reproductive health services, and promoting sexual and reproductive rights. The project focuses on improving the sexual and reproductive health of more than 635,000 women (aged 15-49 years), including 320,000 adolescents (aged 15-24 years). Project activities include: (1) increasing the capacity of health centres to deliver emergency obstetric and neonatal care; (2) providing nutrition and sexual and reproductive health services (including at least five family planning methods); (3) behaviour change communication activities; (4) providing care for victims of gender-based violence; and (5) completing a mapping activity in order to develop a data management system for data on female adolescent reproductive health and sexual and gender based violence.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) increased accessibility, quality and design of sexual and reproductive health services; (2) improved demand for sexual and reproductive health services by women and adolescent girls; and (3) strengthened use of sexual and reproductive health findings and data by the health sector and decision-makers.

Results to March 2021 include: 1) a study on the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 2) 22,500 masks made during the pandemic to help in the fight against Covid-19 by scholarship students from the Kédougou, Tambacounda and Kolda vocational training centers. 3) Masks distributed to medical regions, municipal authorities, community players and the Governorate, to curb the spread of the disease. 4) 3,155 vulnerable families benefited from the “panier de la ménagère”, a special program of the Ministry of Women, Family, Gender and Child Protection.

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