Project profile — No Woman Or Girl Left Behind

• Sierra Leone (60.00%)
• Malawi (40.00%)

• Population policy and administrative management:
Population policy and administrative management (13010) (10.00%)
Reproductive health care (13020) (50.00%)
Family planning (13030) (8.00%)
STD control including HIV/AIDS (13040) (5.00%)
Personnel development for population and reproductive health (13081) (7.00%)
• Government And Civil Society, General: Ending violence against women and girls (15180) (20.00%)

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

The project aims to advance the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of adolescent girls, reduce sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and support advocacy for SRHR in Sierra Leone and Malawi. For adolescent girls in Sierra Leone and Malawi, the rate of maternal mortality and SGBV is very high. The project provides support to SGBV survivors, including clinical services, legal services, and advocacy, in addition to conducting education sessions on SGBV prevention and referral. The project works to strengthen the capacity of healthcare practitioners to provide high quality, gender-sensitive, youth-friendly and rights-based SRHR services. Project activities include: (1) providing training for staff that is tailored to the specific health needs of adolescents; (2) creating safe spaces for adolescents to receive SRHR services in private; and (3) working with healthcare practitioners on national health objectives. In partnership with the Ministry of Health, healthcare institutions are better able to respond to the SRHR needs of women and girls, empowering them to live healthy lives and make informed choices around their health and rights.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) improved provision of gender-sensitive and rights-based sexual and reproductive health services to adolescents; (2) improved provision of quality services to survivors of sexual and gender-based violence; and (3) improved access to high quality comprehensive obstetric and neonatal care by women and adolescent girls.

Results achieved as of March 2024 include: (1) provided family planning support and services to 4,698 girls in Malawi and 8,365 girls in Sierra Leone, aged 10 to 19; (2) organized 64 community health screening events in Malawi, reaching 7,619 people, including 3,874 girls; (3) supported the Adolescent and Youth Friendly Services clinic at Kono District Hospital in Sierra Leone and reached 13,496 adolescents aged 10-19, including 12,298 girls; (4) provided related services to 1,838 people in Malawi, including 1,759 girls, and 1,129 people in Sierra Leone, including 1,127 girls, who had suffered sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) ; and (5) 2,544 adolescent girls in Malawi and 2,673 in Sierra Leone benefited from support measures, including nutrition, transport, and childbirth.

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