Reproductive Health Education and Services for Adolescent Girls-Phase 2

This project aims to scale up and expand programming in the 36 current and 20 new districts in Ghana. This project works to empower adolescent girls including those who are most vulnerable through the provision of and access to gender-responsive comprehensive sexuality education and youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health services including family planning and contraception. This project responds to the reality that many teachers are currently not trained or provided with the material required to engage with adolescents on sexuality education properly. This includes limited access to gender-sensitive and youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health services. Project activities include: (1) training teachers to deliver standardized gender-sensitive and youth-friendly comprehensive sexuality education; (2) creating new and strengthen existing adolescent health clubs; (3) delivering comprehensive sexuality education to adolescent girls; (4) training frontline health care workers in the provision of youth-friendly and gender-sensitive services; (5) increasing the number of health facilities providing quality adolescent friendly health services; (6) raising awareness of adolescent girls to increase the demand for family planning; (7) strengthening procurement supply and logistics management systems for last mile distribution of contraceptives to young people; and (8) engaging in social and behaviour change communications to raise awareness on gender equality and create an enabling environment for adolescent girls to defend promote and exercise their sexual and reproductive rights.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) adolescents and educators demonstrate increased and more equal confidence in using or applying gender-responsive comprehensive sexuality education; (2) adolescent girls and boys have access more youth-friendly and gender-sensitive sexual and reproductive health services; and (3) improved health behaviours and practices supportive of the sexual and reproductive rights of adolescents.