Project profile — SRHR – Rwanda

• Rwanda (100.00%)

• Health, General: Health policy and administrative management (12110) (9.03%)
• Population policy and administrative management:
Population policy and administrative management (13010) (31.22%)
Reproductive health care (13020) (31.70%)
Personnel development for population and reproductive health (13081) (11.82%)
• Government And Civil Society, General: Ending violence against women and girls (15180) (16.23%)

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

This project aims to improve access to sexual and reproductive health services for vulnerable adolescent girls and women aged 15 to 24 in Rwanda. The project’s activities include: (1) training and supporting community youth educators, so as to equip them to raise awareness among their peers and communities about sexual and reproductive health and rights; (2) training health care workers and health facility administrators on providing adolescent-friendly sexual and reproductive health services including family planning, abortion and post-abortion care, maternal and newborn health care, and support for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence; and (3) a Canada-based awareness-raising campaign aimed at involving young Canadians across the country in advocacy around sexual and reproductive health and rights. The project benefits over 120,000 thousand people, most of them adolescent girls and women, across Rwanda. L’AMIE is implementing this project in partnership with the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC), Sexplique, and the Rwandan-based Réseau des femmes oeuvrant pour le développement rural.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) Increased equitable use of health services by diverse groups of women, adolescent girls and children as rights holders; and (2) Improved delivery of gender-sensitive, inclusive and accountable health services by health care providers for diverse groups of women, adolescent girls and children.

Results achieved as of March 2024 include: (1) sensitized 50 441 community members in the Gasabo District, 61% of whom are between the ages of 15 and 24, to the various issues related to sexual and reproductive health and rights; 2) the sexual and reproductive health and rights hotline answered 7,507 calls. The beneficiaries are 3083 women, 2069 men and 2355 people whose gender was not identified; (3) provided psychosocial counselling service to 98 people, comprising 83 women and 15 men, on family planning, prevention of sexually transmitted infections including HIV/AIDS, and gender-based sexual violence; (4) advanced training program in sexual and reproductive health and rights, including emergency obstetric and newborn care for 39 care providers, including 22 women and 17 men; and (5) developed and broadcast 11 media activities aimed at raising awareness on sexual and reproductive rights issues. These included a national advertising campaign on Rwanda's national TV and radio stations. This campaign reaches nearly 2,000,000 people in all regions of the country.

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