Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health in Cabo Delgado -- Response to COVID-19

This project supports activities that respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in Cabo Delgado province in Mozambique. This project focuses on ensuring community engagement and social mobilization distributing essential commodities and supporting the Ministry of Health’s coordination efforts in the pandemic response. Project activities include: (1) producing and disseminating COVID-19 prevention material through digital radio and television programs; (2) supporting the Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 hotline; (3) supporting women’s rights networks in target districts to monitor gender-based violence in the COVID-19 context and generate data on its economic and care load impact; (4) procuring and distributing materials for COVID-19 sample collection (such as gloves cotton swabs disinfectant etc.) laboratory reagents and kit accessories PPE for health care workers triple packs for transporting COVID-19 samples and masks for some of the most vulnerable communities in target districts; and (5) supporting costs related to deploying rapid Ministry of Health response teams to Cabo Delgado province to conduct COVID-19 epidemiological surveillance.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) improved delivery of gender- and adolescent-responsive environmentally sensitive and comprehensive sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services for women girls and their families; (2) reduced gender and social barriers to utilizing and adopting comprehensive SRH services and practices by women and adolescents; and (3) enhanced use and management of gender-sensitive and adolescent-responsive sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) information and evidence by key stakeholders.