UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund

Published purpose

This project aims to empower and improve the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and well-being of vulnerable Tanzanian adolescent girls through a multifaceted and comprehensive approach and by working with adolescent boys and girls, parents, communities and governments during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Project activities include: (1) training health workers providing maternal health services in Infection Prevention and Control (IPC); (2) training 2,000 community health volunteers and 95 supervisors in Zanzibar to deliver COVID-19 safety messages; (3) supporting the procurement of IPC supplies for community health volunteers in Zanzibar; (4) recruiting 10 counsellors to provide information and counselling services to adolescents and youth on COVID-19, maternal health and COVID-19, family planning and COVID-19, and other basic prevention messages; and (5) working with C-Sema and the Ministry of Labour, Employment, Elderly, Women and Children in Zanzibar to expand telephone-based counselling and awareness on COVID-19, focusing on adolescents.