International Development Grant
Freedom to Choose: Improving Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in South Sudan
Project Number: CA-3-D004137001
Status: Closed
Country/Region:
Maximum Contribution: $2,577,133.00
Start Date: March 09, 2018
End Date: September 30, 2020
Duration: 2.6 years
Project Description
This project aims to empower women and girls in South Sudan to make their own decisions about their sexual and reproductive health free from discrimination coercion and violence. This is done by enhancing the availability and quality of sexual and reproductive health services in targeted communities as well as working with community leaders and members to positively influence attitudes and social norms related to sexual and reproductive health rights and health services. Project activities include: (1) establishing eighteen static and mobile sexual and reproductive health clinics; (2) engaging 60 community-based sexual and reproductive health promoters to create awareness and mobilize communities to demand services; (3) mapping and disseminating relevant rights and gender equality policy documents in targeted communities; and (4) training 180 volunteers as sexual and reproductive health and rights promoters in three selected communities. The project is expected to reach over 34 000 women and adolescent girls through the delivery of sexual and reproductive health services and will contribute to improving the health rights and status of many women and adolescent girls in South Sudan.
Expected Results
The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) improved access to quality gender-sensitive and youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health services including family planning; (2) increased acceptance of women and girls’ safe use of sexual and reproductive health services; and (3) increased community respect and protection for women and girls’ sexual and reproductive health rights and gender equality including by key decision-makers.
Progress & Results Achieved
Results achieved at the end of the project (September 2020) include: (1) provided 26 688 people including 18 054 women and girls with access to sexual and reproductive health services including modern methods of contraception. Also provided 8 519 people with modern methods of contraception; (2) constructed a sexual and reproductive health clinic to serve as a training learning and demonstration hub on sexual and reproductive health and rights in South Sudan; (3) established a Youth Action Movement structure in Juba to engage youth to promote sexual and reproductive health in their communities. Also introduced a monthly youth-focused Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) radio talk show and trained 15 youth educators as peer educators on sexuality adolescence gender and reproductive health; and (4) developed a handbook on gender SRHR and gender-based violence in South Sudan used to sensitize and educate community members and local level leaders. It focuses on the importance of women and girls’ rights SRHR and sexual and gender-based violence and promote behavioural changes.
Key Information
Executing Agency:
International Planned Parenthood Federation - Africa Region
Reporting Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Program:
WGM Africa
Last Modified:
September 19, 2025
Development Classifications
DAC Sector:
Aid Type: Project-type interventions
Collaboration: Bilateral
Finance Type: Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation
Selection Mechanism:
Department-Initiated