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) (7.00%)
Reproductive health care (13020) (10.00%)
Family planning (13030) (28.00%)
STD control including HIV/AIDS (13040) (40.00%)
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)
• Nutrition (significant 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 823,312 women (aged 15-49 years), including 470,174 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 achieved at the end of the project (June 2024) include: 1) helped prevent 230 maternal deaths, 104,500 unwanted pregnancies and 37,800 unsafe abortions; 2) enabled 250,008 women and girls aged 10 to 49 to become new users of family planning; 3) enabled reporting of 3,256 cases of gender-based violence (GBV); 4) supported 582,292 young girls and boys to benefit from sexual and reproductive health services; 5) supported 113,634 adolescent girls and women to benefit from GBV prevention and management services; 6) equipped the country with a new data management system on GBV and piloted in the Tambacounda region thanks to project funding; 7) provided iron and folic acid prescriptions in health facilities to 44,030 pregnant teenagers (aged 15-19); 8) equipped 22 facilities for multi-sectoral care of victims of gender-based violence, in line with standard operating procedures, including legal, medical and psychosocial assistance, and support for social rehabilitation; 9) operated on 201 girls under 25 with obstetric fistulas; 10) trained 900 vulnerable girls in vocational training centres; 11) enabled 3,963 vulnerable women and girls to benefit from economic empowerment activities; and 12) enabled 329 communities to commit to abandoning excision and harmful practices.

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