Since our commitment taken in 2017, we are working with national & local Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to improve access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, and remove the barriers of access to effective contraceptive methods and management of unwanted pregnancies in several countries.
To date, we increased access and quality to Family Planning (FP) services for more than 640,000 women & girls, by improving the capacity building and supportive supervisions, by ensuring the availability of all contraceptive methods and avoiding stock out, by rehabilitating structures, by supporting the local health authorities, and by raising awareness in communities and empowering women, girls on SRHR and FP. Boys & men were involved, with more than 150,000 of them sensitized/benefiting from FP services. We worked to strengthen (or implement) youth-friendly SRH services, reaching more than 400,000 youth, boys & girls under the age of 25 years old.
We contributed to advocacy at national levels on the availability and gratuity of modern FP methods for all. In Burkina Faso (BF), we continued to support the Ministry of Health (MoH) which showed an increased political will to improve public policies: recurrent national FP awareness week, revision of the penal code and adoption of unwanted pregnancy awareness in school curriculum.
In Madagascar, we contributed to disseminate the SRH/FP law in the whole country by providing the needed supports. We established strong linkages with the education sector in Ivory Coast, in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and in BF; we trained teachers on SRHR and reinforced the links between schools and public health centres for referral of youth on SRHR issues. To address the issue of youth accessing SRH information and services, we implemented peer activities and animated youth-friendly spaces (in DRC, Ivory Coast, BF and Madagascar) to reinforce their participation.
In Pakistan, we continued to work closely with the Population Welfare Department (PWD) to achieve a very comprehensive Reproductive Health Bill and premarital counselling protocol last year.
In DRC, Kinshasa, we continued to raise awareness and work to prevent deadly unsafe abortion by consolidating the innovative harm-reduction approach on selfabortion and unwanted pregnancies with the MoH, the civil society and the private sector (pharmacies), through the decentralised referral pathway and autoadministration of Misoprostol.
In the 7 humanitarian and fragile settings we worked in, we provided access to primary health care services, including the implementation of the minimal initial services package (MISP) in SRH, with a specific focus on FP, gender-based violence, and comprehensive abortion care.
Finally, we built up the capacities of our teams and partners on SRHR, including in emergency settings (MISP); we conducted several Values Clarification and Transformation of Attitudes (VCAT) trainings followed by ToT and Comprehensive Abortion Care (CAC) trainings, in Uganda and DRC. We participated and presented several projects in conferences (ICPD+25, EuroGyn, REHVO, Women Deliver), and were accepted to present 3 abstracts at 2020 IAWG conference. We finalized and launched an Operational Guidance Tool for management of unwanted pregnancies and CAC.
