SHE SOARS PROJECT

PROJECT SNAPSHOT

  • Goal: To deliver inclusive, holistic Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (ASRHR), life skills, and financial literacy programming for out-of-school adolescent girls and boys between 10 and 19 years old.

  • Partners:

  • Funder: Global Affairs Canada

  • Areas of focus: Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights; Economic Empowerment.

  • Target group: Out-of-school girls aged 10-19 years old

  • Where: Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia

  • Duration: July 22, 2021 - January 2029

PROJECT CONTEXT

Out-of-school adolescent girls are consistently left out of traditional adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) programming, are difficult to reach, and often have the greatest need and least access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services. The chosen intervention sites of this project—urban informal settlements (Kenya), rural settings (Zambia), and refugee host communities (Uganda)—represent locations where the benefits of domestic legal advancements on SRHR and related health system strengthening interventions have not yet reached young people. This has left large youth populations, in particular adolescent girls, especially vulnerable as they navigate the difficult and often contradicting social norms, roles, and expectations that are applied to adolescent girl’s sexuality resulting in limited access to related health services.

YOUTH COALITION’S ROLE

YCSRR, along with CRR, will be focusing on achieving one of the main outcomes of the project: improving effectiveness and strengthening the capacity of Women’s Rights Organizations and Youth-led Organizations to advocate for evidence-based, accountable, and equitable adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health & Rights policies. For this, YCSRR will carry out sub-granting schemes and movement-building with organizations in the region.

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