Gender

Adolescent Girls' vulnerability to child marriages, backyard abortion, increased maternal mortality rate and commercial sexual exploitation, the effects of the HIV epidemic, sexually transmitted infections, early and unintended pregnancies as well as inadequate ASRHR knowledge coupled with lack of access to ASRHR services. It will also address the challenges faced by marginalized girls who were sexually abused particularly rape survivors who often face stigma, trauma or discrimination.

Use human centered design to develop and test a comic series to engage and educate adolescent boys and girls in rural and urban areas about puberty and gender equality, with a focus on menstrual health management (MHM). Produce the first batch of books. Test demand and willingness to pay of NGO/ CSO/ school channel and private sector channel. Evaluate health and gender equality outcomes of the tool o Create and support a community of adolescent boys and girls, online and offline.

Community engagement through informed, sensitive dialogue is known as one of the most effective catalysts towards achieving the abandonment of Female Genital Cutting (FGC). But in India, where the anti-FGC movement is new and intensely polarised, community members lack a) accurate information and b) effective communication skills to engage in these difficult conversations and counter pro-FGC arguments. Our innovation aims to simultaneously plug both those gaps.

In Kenya, Bungoma County has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates and increasing rates of gender based violence among rural young girls, ages 15-24. These rural adolescents are uniquely vulnerable due to poverty, displacement and conflict. Extreme gaps exist in the local IPV awareness levels and availability of quality IPV prevention and response services. While the national government has committed to establishing comprehensive SGBV care centres, this has yet be realised in Bungoma.

Violence against women (VAW) violates women's rights to live in freedom and safety, and negatively affects their health and wellbeing. VAW is understudied in public transport, where it affects women's right to move -- to commute, look for jobs, access healthcare and education -- and thus their occupational choices and socioeconomic outcomes. Yet we know relatively little about the nature and extent of VAW in public transport, or what kinds of interventions could work to tackle it.

Deaf women are prone to sexual exploitation because they are without basic education, without a “language" the world can understand them, and without knowledge of the world around them. They have no resources they could use to understand their own sexuality, to understand their rights against sexual exploitation, to protect themselves against sexual and reproductive health problems, and even to report sexual exploitation incidents to authorities.

Le problème majeur de la femme paysanne d'Uvira en RDC reste le manque d'informations sur la santé sexuelle et reproductive et les droits qui s'y rattachent. En effet, dans les villages de Luberizi, Kamanyola et Uvira centre ciblés par notre projet, plusieurs femmes et filles recourent à la prostitution pour la survie de leurs familles. D'où, un taux élevé des filles-mères, des grossesses indésirées, de mortalité due aux avortements provoqués, les IST ou MST, une pauvreté économique familiale…

In the country there is no comprehensive bet on sexual and reproductive education, the few efforts are focused on urban areas, forgetting the rural areas of the country, where the situation of women and girls are precarious, in the health services there is no information or the medical supplies necessary to guarantee sexual and reproductive health, which is why they constitute a risk factor for the fulfillment of other fundamental rights of girls, women and adolescents.

Young women in Botswana face high rates of all forms of intimate partner violence, placing them at risk of injury, death, and HIV. Marginalized young women, not in education or employment, living in absolute poverty in areas with low access to government services, are particularly at risk through involvement in transactional sex and entrenched patriarchal attitudes. They have limited access to government programs to improve livelihoods or to sources of help when they experience violence.

Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) is widespread in Zorzor District. Cases of sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) are reported in homes, farms, and schools. Forced-marriages of girls is high; while reproductive health services are poor. Poverty is prevalent; no viable and sustainable economic productivity. The major hospital is not accessible to the general population due to distances and cost of drugs and services. Sexual and reproductive health complications are health hazard.