Improving the Resilience of the Health System to ensure Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

The project aims to enhance the quality offer demand and use of basic healthcare services and sexual and reproductive health services for women and girls in three isolated and fragile provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Targeted provinces have known humanitarian crises and conflicts over the past years accentuating the situation of fragility of vulnerable people especially women and girls. Moreover these conditions increased an already generalized poverty and exacerbated the degradation of the healthcare system that manifests itself by a chronic lack of services in reproductive health. The project also aims to promotes and advocate for model norms and practices in gender equality and for women’s and girl’s rights. The activities should contribute to increase the demand and use of sexual and reproductive health services and to fight against gender based violence in targeted areas. Direct beneficiaries would be 163 8000 women aged from 15 to 49 years old in three provinces of the DRC (Sankuru Kasaï and Kasaï Central).

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) improved quality and use of preventive and curative sexual and reproductive health services particularly for women and girls in targeted areas; and (2) improved equitable access for women girls men and boys to sexual reproductive maternal neonatal infantile and teen services through the implication of civil society organisations women’s organisations and women’s rights groups.