Our projects build the capacity of health care workers to provide SRHR services that are gender responsive and adolescent responsive, and we support health facilities to set up welcoming spaces that maintain the confidentiality and privacy of adolescents, women and their male partners. To ensure that all children, adolescents and youth have the capacity, knowledge, attitudes and skills needed to make informed, voluntary and healthy choices around sexuality, reproductive health and relationships, we work with formal and non-formal education sectors adapting Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) curricula, train teachers, mentors, and administrators to deliver gender-responsive and inclusive CSE.
At the community level we work with various groups including, community health workers, religious leaders, adolescent, men and women’s groups to reflect on the barriers to accessing SRH services, and to bring about the desired behavior change while using various behavior change communication (BCC) strategies such as media, theatre and community dialogue.
Our projects also strengthen community governance and accountability structures such as Community Health Committees (CHCs) with the aim to improve the health of the communities that rely on the shared responsibility of a broad range of community stakeholders for the sustainable delivery of gender responsive and adolescent responsive health services. Our work is changing the traditional CHC membership and leadership structures, founded on the principle that participation of women as well as adolescent girls and boys in community groups plays an important role in achieving gender equality and responds to the varied and unique needs of the vulnerable community members, such as women, adolescent girls and children.