Project profile — Strengthening Sexual and Reproductive Health in Benin, Burkina Faso and Mali (PLURIELLES)

• Mali (33.34%)
• Burkina Faso (33.33%)
• Benin (33.33%)

• Population policy and administrative management:
Population policy and administrative management (13010) (18.00%)
Reproductive health care (13020) (43.00%)
Family planning (13030) (8.00%)
• Government And Civil Society, General: Ending violence against women and girls (15180) (31.00%)

• 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 (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 the sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services available to the most vulnerable adolescent girls and women in Benin, Burkina Faso, and Mali. Project activities include: (1) supporting the financial autonomy of vulnerable and marginalized women and adolescent girls in order to reduce the economic and gender barriers to SRH services; (2) providing training to health care providers and administrators of health-care facilities on the provision of gender-responsive and adolescent-friendly SRH services; (3) providing technical and material assistance to women’s and adolescent girls’ rights organizations and defenders; and (4) providing equipment (including water, sanitation, and hygiene infrastructure) to health-care facilities. The project expects to benefit approximately 2 million vulnerable women and adolescent girls across the three countries. This project works in partnership with Lawyers Without Border Canada and SOCODEVI (Société de coopération pour le développement international).

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) increased equitable use of health services by diverse groups of women and adolescent girls who are rights holders, especially victims of sexual and gender based violence; (2) improved provision of gender-responsive, inclusive and accountable sexual and reproductive health and rights services by health care providers to diverse groups of women and adolescent girls; and (3) improved effectiveness of stakeholders, particularly local women’s and adolescent girls’ rights organizations, in advocating for evidence based health services, policies and legal frameworks.

Results achieved as of March 2024 include: 1) the project has empowered 160 men and adolescents to transmit a positive masculinity approach to their peers; 2) increased between 24% and 37% the number of men and adolescents trained and demonstrating a positive attitude towards the use of services related to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) by women and adolescent girls; 3) conducted 18 community dialogues on social norms related to SRHR, reaching 549 people; 4) trained 25 members of management teams on management tools, gender mainstreaming and new tools for collecting and monitoring SRHR data; 5) provided legal support to 81 women and adolescent girls, including victims of gender-based violence (GBV).

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