Funder
Irish Aid
Partner
Provincial Health Directorate, Provincial Education Directorate, Provincial Gender Directorate, Law Enforcement
Overview
Futures with Choice (Futuros com Escolhas), implemented in partnership with the Ministry of Health and Provincial Health Authorities in Mozambique, seeks to transform harmful gender and social norms among adolescents, and generate demand for sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services. Simultaneously, the project strengthens the health system to ensure quality services that provide full contraceptive method choice, including access to self-injection, and gender-based violence prevention and response. The project is aligned with Mozambique’s National Family Planning Strategy and works across 14 districts of Inhambane province, with intensified focus on Massinga, Zavala, Inharrime, and seven priority districts.
Futures with Choice seeks to increase equitable access to quality SRH services for adolescents through demand creation, awareness-raising, community engagement, and linkages to education and livelihoods. The project focuses on strengthening the health system for improved quality of care and data-driven service delivery that expands contraceptive options; strengthens mobile outreach and referral systems; and offers more appropriate adolescent-friendly services.
Project Activities
Norms Transformation and Demand Generation
- Hold small-group dialogues with 14,000 adolescents (girls and boys).
- Hold community dialogues with parents, leaders, influential figures, and men.
- Offer digital (SMS-Biz, SmartHealth AI, Facebook) and school-based sensitization.
- Organize Adolescent Action Groups for civic engagement.
- Support home visits to families.
Access, Choice, and Quality
- Train 350 providers in client-centred SRH and self-injection.
- Support 360 SRH mobile brigades reaching 9,000 beneficiaries.
- Improve school-based SRH.
- Strengthen referral networks for SRH, safe abortion care, and gender-based violence services.
- Pilot chatbot (SmartHealth AI) in Massinga.
Health Systems and Policies
- Strengthen leadership of government in implementation of the National Family Planning Strategy.
- Implement Management Standards Compliance assessments in 10 districts.
- Improve data quality.
- Develop data-driven decision-making skills (dashboards).
- Integrate climate resilience components into SRHR/FP.
