Project profile — Healthy families in Pakistan

• Pakistan (100.00%)

• Health, General: Health policy and administrative management (12110) (4.00%)
• Population policy and administrative management:
Population policy and administrative management (13010) (11.00%)
Reproductive health care (13020) (60.00%)
Family planning (13030) (25.00%)

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

This project aims to improve reproductive health and rights for women, adolescents, and youth in Pakistan’s target areas with low reproductive health indicators. The project also focuses on hard-to-reach areas by enabling them to exercise their reproductive rights free of coercion, discrimination, and violence. Project activities include: (1) advocating efforts to support the implementation of gender-responsive reproductive health and family planning policy and legislative frameworks; (2) conducting community outreach and social mobilization to reach women, adolescent girls, men and boys at the village level with reproductive health and family planning information and services; and (3) using behaviour change communication tools to address social and gender barriers that hinder women and girls from accessing reproductive health and family planning information and services at the individual, household, community and institutional levels.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) developed evidence-based national and provincial policies that provide an enabling environment for inclusive and gender-responsive reproductive health and family planning services; (2) strengthened delivery of quality, gender-responsive, and inclusive reproductive health and family planning services in the target areas; and (3) reduced gender and social barriers to the use and uptake of reproductive health and family planning services in the target areas by women, men, girls and boys.

Results achieved as of March 2024 include: (1) supported the establishment of the first direct entry bachelor of science midwifery program in 2 public institutions; (2) conducted 40 emergency obstetric and newborn care assessments in priority districts; (3) trained 6,887 healthcare providers (6,163 women and 754 men) on family planning approaches; (4) provided over 7.3 million women and men, including new users, with family planning services; and (5) established 16 telemedicine and capacity-building centres to support healthcare providers’ digital learning, expand reproductive health and family planning services, and provide community referral mechanisms.

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