Project profile — Improving Sexual and Reproductive Health and Respect for the Rights of Adolescent Girls in Benin

• Benin (100.00%)

• Health education:
Health education (12261) (30.00%)
Health personnel development (12281) (30.00%)
• Health: COVID-19 control (12264) (30.00%)
• Water And Sanitation: Basic sanitation (14032) (10.00%)

• Gender equality (principal objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (significant objective)
• 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 (principal objective)
• Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• Nutrition (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (significant objective)

This portion of the project is part of a wider implementation and aims to respond to the COVID 19 pandemic by building the capacity of local stakeholders, health professionals and local organizations to respond to and prevent COVID-19. The project also aims to develop and distribute information, awareness and communication materials to counter COVID-19 and equip 100 local health centres with hygiene and biomedical equipment.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) increased demand for sexual and reproductive health services, especially among adolescent girls; (2) increased supply of adolescent girl-friendly, rights-based sexual and reproductive health services; and (3) governance structures empowered to better coordinate sexual and reproductive health prevention and care, while respecting the rights of adolescent girls.

Results achieved as of the end of the project (March 2022) include: (1) 100 local health centres supported by the project received gender-sensitive equipment to respond to COVID 19, enabling them to address the pandemic; (2) 10 incinerators built in health centres to improve hygiene practices; (3) 1,815 awareness messages disseminated on COVID-19, including messages on gender equality and gender-based violence; and (4) 4,260 sessions carried out with local actors and women’s groups to raise awareness about the response to COVID 19, gender equality, gender-based violence and early pregnancy prevention.

• Proactive disclosure