UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund
$18,500,000.00 CAD
- Department
- Global Affairs Canada
- Recipient country
- United States
- Fiscal year
- 2017-2018
- Agreement period
- February 14, 2018 – June 30, 2023
- Reference
- dfatd-maecd:GC-2018-Q4-00081
Published purpose
The project aims to improve the sexual and reproductive health and nutritional status of adolescents, particularly adolescent girls. The project includes activities to support the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education in improving access to quality adolescent-specific reproductive health and nutrition knowledge and services within the health systems, schools and communities in food-insecure districts of Ethiopia. Project activities include: (1) training health workers to provide greater adolescent-friendly sexual and reproductive health and nutrition services; (2) providing iron folate supplements to adolescent girls and biannual de-worming services to adolescents in and out-of-school; (3) establishing adolescent-friendly spaces within communities to reach out-of-school adolescent girls on nutrition and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) practices and services; and (4) upgrading and rehabilitating girl-friendly sanitary facilities in schools. The project aims to reach 4,000,000 adolescents, mostly adolescent girls.
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This project, funded by Global Affairs Canada, aims to improve sexual and reproductive health and nutrition for adolescents, especially girls, in food-insecure districts of Ethiopia through training health workers, providing supplements, establishing community spaces, and upgrading school facilities.
Category: Foreign Aid Development Primarily funds activity outside Canada
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