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F.a: Empowering adolescents and young women to enjoy their sexual and reproductive health and rights and be free from violence

Myanmar
2/11/2005
31/12/2021
Keywords
Capacity building; Women's rights

Project description

Women and girls face significant gender inequalities, discrimination and even violence. Social and cultural norms reinforce gender roles and are contributing factors to decreasing womens active agency as decision makers, leaders, income earners, and consequently impact their right to reproduction, safety from violence, and rights to resources and opportunities. There are very few social support systems and services available. Adolescents, especially adolescent girls, are an often overlooked and under-served population group in interventions. Plan will implement the project in 20 communities in NyaungU Township in Mandalay Region, where Plan has been working since 2015. The project is utilizing a four-pronged approach to improve girls knowledge and capacities in making informed decisions, addressing the social environment regarding gender equality, working with local civil society to create momentum for the realization of girls rights, and working with government across various levels for influencing. Global Champions of Change curriculum will be adapted for the country context to be followed by a training of trainers and ongoing mentoring for facilitators. Peer-to-peer networks will be established in 20 communities and supported with social empowerment fund to implement youth-led campaigns to claim their SRHR. Village Development Committees will be strengthened to tackle harmful norms and promote behaviours that value girls equally. Participation of women, PWDs, adolescents and youth will be strengthened, and training related to financial management organized. Revolving funds are provided to 20 target villages as incentives for them to engage in reinforcing positive norms and tackling harmful practices. Plan will facilitate community groups in designing and implementing awareness campaigns designed to increase investment in girls and to tackle harmful social norms. In order to address duty-bearers to place adolescents SRHR on higher priority in policy frameworks and budgets and to deliver quality SRH services, contributions will be made to the Ministry of Health in terms of supporting implementation of the SRHR Policy and National Youth Policy, organizing meetings with the government to identify entry points to support policy implementation and establishing a coalition with likeminded CSO partners, working groups and media stakeholders at both regional and national levels.

Primary thematic area

Secondary thematic areas

Skills training

Regulatory & legal frameworks

Project details

Umbrella programme

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Accountable Org(s)

Finland Ministry for Foreign Affairs; Plan International Finland Foundation

Funding Org(s)

Finland Ministry for Foreign Affairs

Implementing/
Partner Org(s)

N/A

Project contact

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Funding (USD)

Committed

Spent

$

88,604

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0

Project website

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D-Portal link

Project evaluation

Evaluation source

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Evaluation methodology

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Programme targets

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Results achieved

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Targets met?

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2023

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