STRONGER resilient health system 4 SRHR

This project seeks to enhance the equal enjoyment of the rights of adolescent girls and women (AGW) to be free from gender-based violence (GBV). This includes child early and forced marriage (CEFM) in Cambodia Kenya and the Philippines. Project activities include: (1) providing family planning competency-based training to healthcare workers; (2) strengthening capacity of health center staff private providers and hospital staff in psycho-social counseling with a focus on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and gender-based violence (GBV); (3) facilitating community actions that address community-specific SRHR needs and causes of GBV; and (4) providing data-driven advocacy training to improve the use of data as evidence to support resilient solutions to adolescent girls and women’s SRHR and GBV needs

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) increased use of quality GBV-focused health services among adolescent girls and women (AGW); (2) strengthened agency in community-led rights protection among AGW affected by or at risk of GBV. This includes child early and forced marriage (CEFM); and (3) strengthened governance of multi-sectoral health system response to GBV (including CEFM) by health system actors.