Impacto II: supporting family planning in Mozambique

This project aims to improve gender equality in 11 districts in Manica and Tete provinces. It seeks to ensure that adolescent girls and young women exercise their rights to autonomy and self-determination over their own body and sexual and reproductive health. Project activities include: (1) conducting outreach training and small group mentoring of adolescent girls and boys and young men and women to increase their confidence knowledge skills and civic action on sexual and reproductive health; (2) establishing community feedback and accountability mechanisms on quality of health services and progress on gender equality; (3) facilitating community dialogues for young and older men to increase their engagement and responsibility and develop action plans on sexual and reproductive health gender violence early marriage and gender equality; (4) training community healthcare workers who counsel family members on the harmful effects of sexual and gender-based violence and child early and forced marriage; (5) broadcasting radio shows that address harmful and discriminatory norms about sexual and reproductive health; (6) strengthening referral system and services including judicial and social reintegration response for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence; (7) training and mentoring health providers and managers to offer quality safe and legal contraceptive and abortion services; and (8) conducting outreach to provide family planning and other sexual and reproductive health services and referrals to the most remote populations.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) increased empowerment of women and girls in selected districts to exercise agency in household community facility and policy-level SRHR decision making forums; (2) decreased harmful practices and socio-cultural norms and beliefs limiting women and girl's decision-making and control over their SRH sexuality and bodily autonomy; and (3) improved provision and access to rights-based gender-sensitive youth-friendly contraceptive comprehensive abortion care (CAC) and gender-based violence (GBV) services.