WE CARE South Asia

This project seeks to improve the health and resilience of vulnerable households particularly women and girls in Bangladesh India and Nepal. Project activities include: (1) providing training to women Community Health Facilitators (CHF’s) to deliver gender-sensitive primary health services; (2) delivering modular rights-based gender-sensitive basic health education through multiple touchpoints to community members. This is done through loan meetings workshops community events and household outreach; and (3) equipping CHF ’s and health supervisors to respond to critical health issues relevant to target communities (i.e. increased communication about dengue outbreaks etc.) via face-to-face and digital information sharing. This project expects to reach and positively impact at least 6.4 million direct beneficiaries encompassing 1.5 million people in Bangladesh 3.2 million in India and 1.7 million in Nepal. Also the project aims to reach over 1 million indirect beneficiaries bringing its total reach to 7.4 million direct and indirect beneficiaries. Beneficiaries include youth and adolescents (aged 15 to 19 years) poor households and men and boys recognizing the importance of engaging men that support women’s and family health.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) increased capacity and livelihoods for 1 245 women Community Health Facilitator’s; (2) improved decision-making and practices in reproductive maternal newborn child adolescent health for 6 million beneficiaries at least 50% women and girls; and (3) increased use of appropriate primary health services (face-to-face or mediated tele-consultation) for women's health issues.