Status: Ongoing
Achieving the transformative results in the UNFPA Strategic Plan
Naguru Teenage Information and Health (NTIHC) is implementing the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) 9th Country program. The programs focus is to ensure universal access, for women and young people in Uganda to high-quality, integrated sexual and reproductive health and rights information and services, which will support the achievement of the four transformative results in the UNFPA Strategic Plan (end unmet need for family planning, end preventable maternal deaths, end gender-based violence and other harmful practices, and ending new HIV infections).
NTIHC efforts/outcome areas include; Outcome 2: Gender Equality and women empowerment and Outcome 3: Multi-sectoral coordination capacity for prevention and response to GBV and SRHR at national, district and sub-county levels strengthened.
Under outcome 2 NTIHC is mobilizing communities and institutions to prevent GBV and promote SRHR institutional and Organizational capacities to review, reform, implement and report on GBV and SRHR laws, policies and standards at national and sub-national levels; NTIHC is also Organizing dialogues with religious and cultural leaders on how to transform harmful norms and practices and to sustain the provision of integrated sexual and reproductive health and rights information and services, including gender-based violence prevention services to end teenage pregnancy
Address harmful norms
Under outcome 3 NTIHC is building capacity for Youth Leaders in SRHR, social accountability and Advocacy, Establishing, strengthening and operationalizing District Committees on Adolescent Health to facilitate multi-sectoral planning, programming and collaboration to address harmful norms and practices and sustain provision of ASRHR at district level. NTIHC is also organizing dialogues with government, civil society and youth led organization’s on how to transform harmful norms and practices and to sustain the provision of integrated sexual and reproductive health and rights information and services, including gender-based violence prevention services to end teenage pregnancy
NTIHC is implementing the program in central, Acholi, Karamojja and Westnile sub regions. Interventions primarily target the young people age 10-24yrs. Religious and cultural leaders , family leaders and care takers, duty bearers are also being targeted in this project.