SRHR
🩺 Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR)
The SRHR hub promotes sexual and reproductive health and rights in sub-Saharan Africa, with a particular focus on adolescent girls and young women.
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Transformational potential
To advance the SRHR agenda in the SSA region, with a particular focus on adolescent girls and young women.
The Team Europe proposal
Geographic coverage: TEI activities may be implemented at multi-country, sub-regional, regional and cross-regional levels, based on need and potential to add value for the desired outcomes.
1. Strengthen political commitments and capacities to implement continental and regional SRHR
- Joint education and health sector responses for SRHR outcomes (such as comprehensive sexuality education, linking school to health services);
- Inclusion of SRHR within the Health System Strengthening/Universal Health Coverage agendas.
2. Strengthen regional mechanisms to address supply-side constraints and improve access to quality assured SRH-commodities
- Use of pooled procurement mechanisms;
- Supporting the harmonization of regulatory environment;
- Improving supply chain management systems.
3. Strengthen advocacy and social accountability of regional commitments on SRHR
- Increasing SRHR data availability and analysis for evidence-based policy making;
- Advocacy, and system and service reforms;
- Promoting demand creation and movement building;
- Promoting coordinated actions of regional parliamentarians, civil society (networks and alliances), women and youth movements.
4. Added value
- Strengthening the implementation of regional normative frameworks and increasing accountability;
- Tackling drivers of negative SRHR outcomes and promoting enablers for SRHR across borders Increased efficiencies;
- Evidence and knowledge management and learning;
- Promoting sustainability through movement building.