Project profile — HÈRÈ - Women's well-being in Mali

• Mali (100.00%)

• Population policy and administrative management:
Population policy and administrative management (13010) (60.00%)
Reproductive health care (13020) (20.00%)
Family planning (13030) (10.00%)
• Government And Civil Society, General: Ending violence against women and girls (15180) (10.00%)

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

This project seeks to improve the well-being of women and girls in the Sikasso, Ségou and Mopti regions and the district of Bamako in Mali. Project activities include : 1) delivering better family planning services and post-abortion care to more than 200,000 women and adolescent girls; 2) raising awareness among more than 1,000,000 people through interactive radio programs or other kinds of campaigns on sexual and reproductive health and gender based violence; 3) providing 465 community members, 120 female members of women’s groups, and at least 200 community health centre care providers and mobile midwives with training on sexual and reproductive health and gender based violence; 4) training 16 district-level trainer-supervisors so as to ensure the sustainability and good governance of the health system; 5) holding sessions to lobby 150 key decision makers and policy leaders on sexual and reproductive health and gender based violence issues at the national and regional levels; and 6) building the capacity of 20 media representatives to ensure awareness of and proper communication on the issues of gender inequality.

The expected outcomes for this project include : (1) there are fewer socio cultural barriers that foster gender based violence and limit the use of sexual and reproductive health services by women and girls in the targeted regions; (2) the range and quality of sexual and reproductive health services and the response to gender based violence are improved, equitable and based on the rights of women, girls, men and boys in the targeted regions; and (3) the legislative and policy environment at the national and regional levels better promotes and protects women’s and girls’ sexual and reproductive rights.

Results achieved as of March 2024 include: 1) the project reached 193,825 people with messages on family planning and protection against unwanted pregnancies as part of the Yes «Youth engagée pour sa santé!» Campaign; 2) 1,049,314 people had access to interactive radio programs on sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender-based violence and family planning; 3) trained 155 key members and community leaders on sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender equality and gender-based violence, with a view to acting as agents of change in their communities; 4) trained 120 teenage girls as part of the Girl Shine strategy, to raise awareness among their peers about rape, sexual assault, forced marriage and genital mutilation; 5) prevented 219,005 pregnancies as a result to sexual and reproductive health and family planning services provided by the project; 6) 268,991 people received family planning and post-abortion care services provided by the project; 7) trained 140 health service providers, including 84 women, in the medical management of gender-based violence victims.

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