Promoting Adolescent SRH Through Participatory Community Engagement (PASPCE)
June 2021 - May 2023
Background
Making reproductive health decision and or choice is a difficult task, especially for young people in Ghana who form a significant part of the country’s population. This is mostly due to their lack of adequate and age-appropriate information. Often, the choices they make, which are influenced by several factors within their environments, affect their lives negatively.
In 2021, UNICEF partnered Savana Signatures to implement a project dubbed Promoting Adolescent SRH Through Participatory Community Engagement (PASPCE). It targets adolescent boys and girls, and community gatekeepers including traditional and religious leaders. PASPCE ultimately seeks to empower young people, especially adolescent boys and girls, to fully understand their reproductive health and rights to help them to make informed sexual and reproductive health life choices.
The project is being implemented in 17 districts across five regions.
Our Role
- Savana Signatures is supporting the health promotion units of 17 health directorates to engage community gatekeepers, through school and community-level mass engagements on the need to create favourable community conditions for adolescents to thrive by safely expressing their SRH and rights.
- Supporting the creation of empowerment/capacity building opportunities for young people to engage their communities and gatekeepers on issues that affect young people.
- Promote AGOOSHE+ Helpline as an a critical platform for sexual and reproductive health and rights information and services for adolescents and young people.
Highlights
- 120 callers, including adolescents and young people, are informed on their SRH and referred to other services on a weekly basis through the AGOOSHE+ Helpline.
- Improved the SRH knowledge levels of over 30,000 young people and adolescents across 50 primary/ JHS and SHS schools across the 17 project districts.
- Improve knowledge and ability of community gatekeepers, including traditional leaders, religious leaders and parents to make informed decisions based on the SHR needs of young people and adolescents due to consistent engagements and information dissemination.