| Project Detail |
The objective of the Sub-Saharan Africa Women’s Empowerment and Demographic Dividend Plus (SWEDD+) Project is to increase girls’ and women’s access to learning, economic opportunities, and utilization of health services, and to strengthen the region-wide institutional capacity for gender equality. There are three components to the project, the first component being Design and implement gender transformative interventions that promote girls’ and women’s social and economic autonomy. Component 1 will focus on social and behavioral change activities through five subcomponents. Principal beneficiaries in this component are AGYW, and parents, siblings, boys, husbands, children, and communities as secondary beneficiaries. This component includes five subcomponents: social and behavior change communication campaign, improve life skills and sexual and reproductive health knowledge of adolescents, keep girls in school through at least secondary level to delay marriage and early childbearing, economic and financial inclusion to increase agency and opportunities for AGYW, and strengthen GBV prevention and response actions. The second component is to improve the availability of RMNCAHN services and the number of qualified health workers at the community level. This component includes three subcomponents: enhance the availability of contraceptives and RMNCAHN services at the community level, enhance the performance of the pharmaceutical supply chain, including last mile delivery, and: improve the availability and capacity of health workers providing RMNCAHN services in rural/isolated areas. Finally, the third component is the foster regional and national commitment and capacity for policy making on gender equality and project management. This component includes three subcomponents: strengthen legal frameworks and political commitment for girls’ and women’s reproductive health rights at continental, regional, and national levels, strengthen capacity for policy making and M&E related to demographic dividend and gender issues, and support project implementation capacity. To increase girls’ and women’s access to learning, economic opportunities, and utilization of health services, and to strengthen the region-wide institutional capacity for gender equality. |
