Project title
Strengthening of Safe MR and Family Planning services and Reduction of
Unsafe Abortions for Improving SRHR Situation in Bangladesh (Safe MR Project)
Project Period
From 01 January to 31 December 2020
Implementing Partners
SRHR Consortium of Bangladesh. The members of the consortium are:
Reproductive Health Services Training & Education Program (RHSTEP) and
Association for Prevention of Unsafe Abortion, Bangladesh (BAPSA).
Objectives:
Goal
The Goal of the project is to improve Sexual and Reproductive Health
Rights (SRHR) and wellbeing of women and adolescents in Bangladesh.
Purpose
The purpose of the project is to contribute in reduction of Maternal
Mortality, morbidity from unsafe abortion and improve the SRHR situation of
women and adolescents in the project areas.
OBJECTIVES
The objectives of the project is to-
I. improve
access to MR and PAC services;
II.
improved availability of SRHR services
to youth and adolescents;
III.
generate increased demands for SRHR
services among the catchments area population;
IV.
strengthen advocacy and policy dialogue
to sustain enabling environment for safe MR and SRHR services and SGBV;
V.
Generate and disseminate evidence for
improved SRHR services and Policy influence;
VI.
Strenghtening ICT for transparency,
accountability and better managementof the project;
Achieve sustainability of the SRHR Consortium partners
OuTcome
Outcome-1: Improved Skills of Service providers for SRHR
services.;
Outcome-2: Improved capacity of the consortium in SRHR program
management..
Outcome-3: Increased access to quality SRHR services for
women, adolescents and men;
Outcome-4: Enhanced knowledge of the women and adolescents in
the project areas to make informed choice partaining to their sexual and
reproductive health needs;
Outcome-5: Strengthened monitoring, Research, Evaluation and
Documentation processes in the consortium.
Outcome-6: Strengthened advocacy and social networking
initiatives for improving SRHR situation.
Outcome-7: Sustainability of the consortium improved.
Project Location: BAPSA is working in 04 districts of
Bangladesh
Major Activities of the Project:
Major activities of the project consist of two categories of services;
a)Clinical services and
b)Non-clinical services.
Clinical Services:
For improving the reproductive health of the underserved urban and rural
population, BAPSA for the last two decades providing quality reproductive health
care services through its nine clinics. Three clinics are located in the Mirpur
area of Dhaka City and other six clinics are in Kamrangirchar of Dhaka,
GazipurSadar&Boardbazarof Gazipur, Begumgonj of Noakhali district, Bangalhalia
of Rajsthaliupazila, Rangamati district and Lama of Bandarban district of
Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT). The services provided by the clinics are as
follows:
● M.R
Refresher Training for the FWvs/SACMOs
● M.R.
Counseling
● M.R.
Services
● Post
M.R. Contraception
●
Contraceptive Services for Non-M.R. Clients
●
Follow-up of Contraceptive Services
●
Genera Health Care Service
●
Maternal Health Care or Safe Pregnancy Services
●
Management of Abortion Complication
●
Management of OB/Gyn. Problems
● Via
Test
●
Pathological Services
●
Adolescent Reproductive Health Care and education at the school/madrasha and
community.
●
Awareness and counseling services on STI/RTI/HIV/AIDS.
● MR
and other BCC
Non-Clinical Services
Based on the past experience, BAPSA under this project carried out some
other non- clinical activities as they are closely related with the improvement
of M.R. program and prevention of unsafe abortion in the country. The
non-clinical activities are as follows:
●
Liaison and Organizing M.R. Training
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Orientation of Front Line FP Workers on Prevention of Unwanted Pregnancy and
unsafe abortion in the country
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Publication of Health & Rights
Now sexual and reproductive health and rights are the core of the human
live, whether rich or poor. In this backdrop on behalf of the SRHR Consortium
Health& Rights is being published by BAPSA with close collaboration with
RHSTEP. It has been aimed at to publish more related information on SRHR and
pertinent issues and update the SRHR service providers. In the reporting year a
total of 3 issues of Health & Rights have been published,6,000 in English and
18,000 in Bangla . It is being distributed among the health professionals of
home and abroad.