Accessing the Full Range of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in Mozambique

This project aims to ensure that vulnerable women and girls in Mozambique can make informed choices about their sexual and reproductive health (SRH) free from discrimination coercion and violence. It also aims to ensure that these women and girls have access to the full range of SRH services especially safe and legal abortion. Project activities include: (1) establishing two training centres in existing hospitals and training 475 health workers. This includes training 325 health providers on comprehensive abortion care and integrating gender-based violence services; and training 25 pharmacists on medical abortion. It also includes training 125 professionals at integrated care centres where women and girls can seek legal redress and psychosocial support after experiencing violence; (2) conducting community education outreach and mass media campaigns that will reach up to 7 million people with information on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and gender-based violence; and (3) conducting advocacy campaigns to shift harmful norms and stigma related to SRHR through about 9 000 community outreach activities.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) improved decision-making of adolescent girls and women with the support of adolescent boys and men on their sexual and reproductive health (SRH) especially safe and legal abortion when desired; (2) decreased stigma and harmful sociocultural norms and practices that limit women’s and girls’ decision-making around their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) including access to safe and legal abortion through strengthened civil society organizations including women’s rights organizations capable of shifting norms at the community and government levels; and (3) improved quality coverage and gender-responsiveness of SRHR services especially safe and legal abortion services for women and adolescent girls.