Funder
The Gates Foundation
Partner
Ethiopia Ministry of Health
Project Outcomes
500,000
adolescents and youth served
Overview
Out-of-school adolescents and youth are some of the most underserved by health systems. This project generates evidence on youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health service provision and high-impact community interventions to inform the scale-up of service delivery to out-of-school youth in Ethiopia. The evidence generated creates an opportunity to inform policymakers, donors, and key programmatic stakeholders. The project, which, operates in five regions (Amhara, Oromia, Somali, South Ethiopia, and Gambella), focuses on the following activities:
- Conducting regional assessments on the status of adolescent- and youth-friendly health services and barriers of out-of-school youth to accessing sexual and reproductive health care.
- Implementing standardized adolescent- and youth-friendly health service provision approaches and generating evidence to complement assessments.
- Testing community-based interventions to reach out to out-of-school adolescents and youth with tailored sexual and reproductive health information and services.
- Engaging key stakeholders to ensure ownership, scalability, and sustainability.
- Engaging adolescents and youth in a meaningful way.
- Supporting the establishment and strengthening of different service-delivery approaches (separate and mainstream) in public health facilities.
- Exploring alternative models in private health facilities, youth centers, and workspaces.
- Enhancing the capacity of health care providers in range of adolescent and youth health service-delivery areas.
- Providing basic equipment and furniture to optimize quality of care.
- Documenting and facilitating knowledge-sharing.
