CCISD - Center for International Cooperation in Health and Development

Published purpose

The project aims to provide a structuring and transformative response to the challenges related to sexual and reproductive health and rights experienced by indigenous women and adolescent girls in Bolivia, Peru and Guatemala, because of their gender and ethnicity. On one hand, it aims to increase the adoption, by and for indigenous women and adolescent girls and their communities, of innovative and culturally relevant solutions that will have a direct impact on the health inequalities they suffer. On the other hand, it intends to improve the provision of intercultural health services and comprehensive sexuality education programs by integrating ancestral practices and knowledge through capacity building of health care providers, including midwives and traditional healers, to offer coordinated and complementary quality health services. The project will also address rights violations of indigenous women and adolescent girls by mobilizing duty-bearers, including men and adolescents, to strengthen the promotion and protection of sexual and reproductive rights through partnerships with civil society organizations.