Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights

It intends to contribute towards girls and young women’s increasing uptake and access to quality, integrated and gender responsive sexual and reproductive (SRH) youth-friendly services through greater knowledge, agency and capacities related to their health, decision making, improved social status, expanded economic opportunities and greater life expectancy support to ASRH service provision; and contributing towards an enabling environment supporting, protecting and promoting their SRH rights and needs in south south and south east of Nigeria states . Violence against Women and Girls, beyond being human rights violations, is an important determinant of women’s and girls’ sexual and reproductive health and rights, yet they remain shrouded in a culture of  silence in the country. Early marriage is a human rights violation, which denies thousands of Nigerians girls their childhood. This harmful practice is strongly correlated with early pregnancy, maternal morbidity and mortality and  associated with the significantly lowerlikelihood by married girls

Girls and young women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights in Nigeria is affected by many factors rooted in extreme poverty, gender inequality and discriminatory social norms and harmful practices – such as early marriage and violence and abuse against girls and women. Data on violence are often not available and underestimate the scope of the problem, as violence is difficult to measure and it is usually under-reported. Too often violence takes place in silence, with the acceptance of its survivors and their communities. Violence hits women and girls in Nigeria through its various forms and in various settings including the most “invisible ones, such as the home and the school. Violence is often rooted into gender disparities and discriminatory gender norms and accepted as “normal” by families, communities and the women and girls themselves: according to the MICS 2008, 36% of girls and women aged between 15-49 in Nigeria believe that a husband has the right to beat his wife under certain circumstances, such as if she refuses sexual relations. and this cruelty must stop, it must stop now through empowerment,supportive education, entrepreneurship skill development in agriculture and creating opportunities that is viable and will reduce ignorance and poverty

Recognizing and understanding the influences of specific socio-cultural issues, norms and practices of different communities, is particularly relevant to programmes addressing sexual and reproductive health, as sexuality is both universal and culturally specific to create an enabling environment for the sexual and reproductive health needs and rights of girls and young women, in a country as culturally diverse as Nigeria ,it is necessary to involve the upholders of traditional customs, healing and rites of passage while building the capacity of the formal health service providers to take these issues into account into account in SRH service provision . As a result, there is a need for ensuring that knowledge on , safe sex, and gender based violence, is not only the responsibility and burden of girls, young women and youth, but that this responsibility is shared equitably among the community and society as a whole. Thus the need to involve boys, men, parents community cultural gate keepers and leaders, traditional medical practitioners to create dialogue, harmonize messages on SRH, and ultimately improving service delivery and overall health outcomes. To ignore the impact  issues can be counterproductive to strengthening service delivery that is sensitive gender responsive and consistent  human rights based 

In Nigeria, It is estimated that around 2000 new cases of obstetric fistula, mostly occurring among girls and young women, occur in Nigeria each year. Obstetric fistula is one of the most serious and tragic complications of pregnancy and childbirth. It is a hole between the birth canal and bladder or rectum caused by prolonged, obstructed labour without treatment. It leaves women leaking urine, faeces or both, and often leads to chronic medical problems, depression, social isolation and deepening poverty . Obstric fistula can affect women at any age, but adolescent girls are particularly vulnerable to it, due to their higher vulnerability to prolonged and obstructed labour.Obstetric fistula is preventable. The fistula situation is worsened by the lack of access by girls and women to routine sexual and reproductive health services and emergency obstetric care, in particular by poor girls and women from rural areas, where distances to access health units with emergency care are long.A National Obstetric Fistula Prevention and Treatment Strategy was launched in 2016=17, which aims toward expanding the preventive efforts, as well as simultaneously put in place a holistic approach towards the treatment of existing cases and providing campaign strategy to reduce child marriage through awareness

The (OHCI ) aims to improve adolescents and youth SRH. It has a multi-sectorial and multi-level approach based on the following main pillars in other align to the challenges and -It builds on a peer-to-peer approachaiming to equip young peer educators – girls and boys - with evidence-based SRH information, for them to reach and inform their adolescent and youth peers.School-based: implemented by the Ministry of Education, reaches in-school youth with information on SRH,Community-based: implemented by the Ministry of Youth and Sport, reaches out-of- school youth with information on SRH and  implemented by the Ministry of Health, provides youth-friendly services

Our business models is entrepreneurship skill development for the vulnerable young girls and women, Among the recommendations were; the development of a coherent strategy on gender and sexuality; improve the articulation between gender mainstreaming and institutional development; develop gender specific, age appropriate, and culturally relevant sexuality education;design and implement a clear model of care within the Youth Friendly Services for victims of sexual violence; design communication initiatives to protect and promote young girls sexual and reproductive health and right with  a specific focus on those living with HIV and address the 10-14 age group in order to counter and prevent early sexual debut, early pregnancies, child marriage etc the program takes into consideration the effect of girls and young women’s economic empowerment on their agency, and consequently on their health, uptake of health care services, number of children, health of their children etc Based on the fact that women’s capacity to bring about economic change for themselves increasingly is viewed as the most important contributing factor to achieving equality between women and men . the program anticipates that a stronger emphasis in providing economic opportunities for the target group will assist in addressing the inequalities present in the geographical area

OHCI adopted mainstreaming inclusive Green Growth (IGG) for good governance technology and for media campaign (ICT)

and corporate policies help to shape the transformation and sustainability of the women and young girls , incentivizing commercial agriculture investors to engage in out-grower schemes, that benefit smale -scale producers. The financial system incorporates IGG principles into

decision-making and lending with agribusiness to mitigate risks of negative environmental and social impacts of agricultural production. With research and NGO partners, governments map natural capital and sustainably manage high-value areas. Government at all levels increases the economic value of well-managed landscapes by seeking jurisdictional certification for them and supports a carbon credit market for sustainable practice

IGG principles are mainstreamed through multi sectoral platforms, such as the south south and south east Green Reference Group and the Network of Farmers Groups in Nigeria, and through collaboration among government, private investors, financial institutions, NGOs, business development service providers, and research and farmer organizations. Feedback mechanisms ensure that communities’ voices are heard in development planning, policy formulation, implementation, and enforcement. Women’s collective voices are advanced through targeted capacity building and engaging male champions and leaders to model behavior changes. Mutual accountability processes such as our Community Scorecard tool enable communities to hold service-providers and other powerful players to account. Thus, women, youth, and small-scale farmers increasingly engage in governance processes and have greater representation in institutions that affect their lives and livelihoods

we envision the
application of innovative urban agriculture models that are adaptable to the increased unpredictability of rainfall
and climate change for the vulnerable people in Nigeria and updating government policies is essential to
guarantee the right to food for all. Policymakers at national and county levels will continually be engaged to
review, develop and implement relevant policies that are responsive to urban food security, ensuring equitable
access to safe and nutritious food, especially for the poor. and will generate direct and indirect employment
opportunities along the value chains, particularly for women and youth, and contribute towards income
generation and economic empowerment of these groups and their households. Hunger, joblessness and poverty
are some of the major drivers of insecurity in informal settlements in Nigeria , creating jobs for youth in these
settings through agribusiness will reduce crime rates and create a friendly and peaceful urban environment.
Food rescue and redistribution will reduce the economic losses associated with food wastage. Evidence shows
that a food rescue program has a positive return on investment (ROI). We anticipated to target 100 women and
young girls, 50 boys especially youths and 50 household families. We envisage an environment friendly urban and peri-urban smallholder food production system based on principles  of of conservative agriculture promoted by the food and Agriculture organization of the united Nations 

OHCI  theory of change is based on the assumptions that: 1) Reaching and empowering girls and young women to articulate their concerns and needs, and exercise their rights through a set of integrated approaches to increase the availability of age appropriate, gender responsive information, knowledge, capacities of girls and young women, will increase the demand by girls and young women for SRH services and for their rights to be realized. Providing support to girls and young women to obtain citizenship and documentation to return to school will further contribute to the agency and empowerment of the target group. The direct and target approach of mentorship will further assist in addressing some of the interpersonal barriers influencing the current attitudes and behaviour of girls and young women related to sexual and reproductive health and rights.

2) This outcome will respond to the increased demand for sexual and reproductive health services and information under outcome 1 and 3, through the improved availability of services for the target groups in schools and the communities. Additionally, this outcome will respond to the lack of capacities of health providers to be able to provide access to youth-friendly, gender-sensitive and reachable ASRH services and information through capacity building. Through the improved quality ASRH services, an increase in knowledge level and uptake of services in the target group will be achieved, which in turn will contribute towards a decrease in STI’s, HIV infections, unintended pregnancies, unsafe abortions, obstetric fistula, maternal morbidity and mortality. The assumption is also building on experiences from the UN Programme  in south south and south east of Nigeria, which highlights the fact that “the quality of the health care provided is a key determinant for the demand for health services (3) Strengthening systems and processes for inter-governmental cooperation and coordination and improving evidences towards improved sustainability will consequently contribute towards for the promotion and protection of the sexual and reproductive health and rights of adolescent and youth in Nigeria, particularly girls and young women. To ensure efficiency, effectiveness in the use of resources, a focus on program management, coordination, human resources and communication

In one year OHCI will impact 1000 women and young girls , excluding infants and in five years 5000 people can be targeted beneficiaries  , we believe we can make important steps forward in establishing violence prevention as a
policy priority, within a growing number of countries and globally. We believe we can begin to create a virtuous
cycle where measurable reductions in violence help create political will for greater efforts to prevent and address
violence, further strengthen the case for investment, and increase the capacity to implement evidence-based
strategies. And we believe we can start to build a powerful movement that will work to keep children safe and in
which children will themselves play a central role, , to achieve this, our strategy must: be driven by results Our
organization must live up to the ambition of the SDGs and be based on a convincing theory of change for how it
plans to help communities deliver measurable reductions in violence. the program aims to respond to the gaps in
capacity and coordination by building capacity of civil society and Government institutions, as well as
strengthening the multisector capacity and coordination at all levels to sustain the commitment towards SRHR
for young people, particularly for girls and young women. , direct linkages between agriculture and other sectors
including ICT

The exit strategy will rely on strategic advocacy efforts with Government throughout the program circle
to ensure the necessary (financial) commitment to continue to implement the holistic approach towards girls and
young women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights and empowerment, as an integral part of OHCI , that
this program in reflecting. Increasing government commitment to targeted investment in marginalized and
vulnerable girls and young women: the vulnerability of the girls and young women in the area of sexual and
reproductive health and rights is demonstrated through the high numbers of girls married as children, teenager
pregnancy, cases of obstetric fistula, the feminization of HIV, maternal mortality among girls and young women
as well as the findings of the external review of OHCI

Therefore, is this program also aiming to produce results
and evidence to feed into policy advocacy on not solely the need for targeting and strategic efforts towards this
target group, but also to demonstrate good practices and approaches to be up-scaled and replicated , Producing
social diffusion effects: by reaching a critical mass of vulnerable girls and young women, mentors and strategic
stakeholders within the communities where they live, the program aims to assist OHCI in improving the
involvement of the communities and establishing a catalytic source of social diffusion that will prepare the ground
for a sustained improvement of indicators on marriage, childbearing, violence, and empowerment etc.

The challenges and opportunities  OHCI  facing is very enormous , but we are very  optimistic that every human problems has a solution,One of the major challenges is in area of  Funding: NGOs are expressing difficulty in finding sufficient, appropriate and continuous funding for their work. it is difficult to meet   their funding conditions.They have limited resource mobilization skills and are often not looking for funds that are available locally, preferring to wait for international donors to approach them. There is a high dependency of donors and a tendency to shift interventions to match donor priorities. There is a lack of financial, project and organizational sustainability.Poor Networking was identified as a major challenge. It is the cause of duplication of efforts, conflicting strategies at community level, a lack of learning from experience and an inability of NGOs to address local structural causes of poverty, deprivation and under-development. Negative competition for resources also undermines the reputation of the sector and the effectiveness of NGO activities at community level. As a result there is a great deal of suspicion among NGOs, secrecy and lack of transparency.

Many NGOs, large and small, intervene at community level without any community mapping and implement projects without due regard.Thirdly   Absence of Strategic Planning: Few NGOs have strategic plans which would enable them to have ownership over their mission, values and activities. This leaves them vulnerable to the whims of donors and makes it difficult to measure their impact over time

Common reasons why women do not use contraceptives include logistical problems, such as difficulty travelling to health facilities or supplies running out at health clinics. Reasons also include social barriers, such as opposition by partners, families or communities. Lack of knowledge also plays a role, with many women not understanding that they are able to becoming pregnant, not knowing what contraceptive methods are available, or having incorrect perceptions about the health risks of modern methods.

Poorer women and those in rural areas often have less access to family
planning services. Certain groups – including adolescents, unmarried
people, the urban poor, rural populations, sex workers and people living
with HIV – also face a variety of barriers to family planning. This can
lead to higher rates of unintended pregnancy, increased risk of HIV and
other STIs, limited choice of contraceptive methods, and higher levels
of unmet need for family planning. Particular attention must be paid to
promoting their reproductive rights, access to family planning, and
other sexual and reproductive health services.

Family planning is the information, means and methods that allow
individuals to decide if and when to have children. This includes a wide
range of contraceptives – including pills, implants, intrauterine
devices, surgical procedures that limit fertility, and barrier methods
such as condoms – as well as non-invasive methods such as the calendar
method and abstinence. Family planning also includes information about
how to become pregnant when it is desirable, as well as treatment of
infertility.

Access to contraceptive information

We are collaborating with the following Stakeholders to be part of our team: Girls Not Brides - macarena.espinar@girlsnotbrides.org Thomson Reuters Foundation trust law - agnes.wairegi@thomsonreuters .com  outlookhcinitiative@yahoo.com  Global Partnership to End Violence against Children - secretariat @end-violence.org The Global Giving Team- accelerator@globalgiving.org Emmanuel Eze is the Project coordinator (OHCI) Mrs Patricia Ogwuma Project Supervisor (OHCI)  (OHCI), Mrs jessy Eze  project manager Mr Emeka Onwujuba (OHCI)  Chiemela odinaka , measurement and evaluation expert , Eucharia Umeokwe, Phd  Other Partners from other members Organization will Monitor, continuous process, with other stakeholders like Girls Not Brides initiative a movement call an idea box

Emmanuel Eze is the Project coordinator full time ,Mrs Patricia Ogwuma Project Supervisor (OHCI) full time,Mr jessy Eze full time , Mr Emeka onwujuba full time, Sunny odiokase full time ,Prosper Eberechi full time,Chiemela odinaka partime, Eucharia Umeokwe par time, femi daniel part time, blessing Hillary par time, onyenso uchechi partime, volunteers from tertiary institutions , training facilitators, entrepreneurship skill developers  , Human rights practitioners , referral guidance and counselors,  medical team, drama unit club , adolescent youths. 20 volunteer contractors

Mrs Jessy Ego Eze

I’m a Social communicator (from Arochukwu  Ancient Kingdom Nigeria) was born on  27th march 1972  in Umuahia  in Abia State Nigeria  I ‘m interested in the convergence between narratives and communications that facilitates the development social process and reduction of inequality from the perspective and promotion of human rights ,focus on collaboration efforts , youth movement,  mapping and collection of data  , civic engagement , and community development with an equity and social justice framework .They have an overall passion for supporting local initiatives . Jessy has a degree in foreign Languages (French) from University of Uyo,

Mrs Patricia Anezi Ogwuma

I am retired staff member of Union Bank of Nigeria PLC and was in active service for 35 years as

banker , and held managerial postion as a Union Bank branch manager for 6 years and a registerd

member of Institute of chartered bankers of Nigeria and my date of birth 3/3/1960, become board member of OHCI in other to bring about significant and enduring improvements for millions of women , youth and children in Nigeria , support a small number of transformative systems change initiative through sustainable livelihood enhancement for rural and urban dwellers in Nigeria to reduce ignorant , poverty, illiteracy  and gender inequality and discrimination , equitable provision of quality and essential social services ensure improved well being  for all vulnerable groups in Nigeria, Obtained HND diploma  certificate in Banking and finance from OKO Polytechnic Nigeria and many other

OHCI is working together in building networks through coalition , in partnership with Global partnership to end violence against children ,

collaborate through local, regional, national and global partnerships, working with the private sector, international institutions and other organization who share our goals 

Civicus alliance team is our partner work through local organization and movements , building capacity and strengthening,  Girls Not Brides the  global partnership to end child marriage is very unique with all necessary tools both for local and international professional values in gender mainstream supporting networks and building bridges to transform the life of children and women in Africa through search funding .

It identifies six areas where we believe collective action will be crucial to make progress towards ending child marriage. It is a roadmap for how the Girls Not Brides Partnership will work together .

Thomson Reuters foundation trust law

TrustLaw is only able to provide legal assistance to OHCI. We would therefore only be able to assist on this basis, by indicating that OHCI is a member of TrustLaw. And support on bro bono activities, community based organization , churches and mosques, traditional leaders in creating logical frame work and community mobilization campaign trend.

At the Outlook Humaniterian Care Initiative , we strongly believe that investments to modernise the
agriculture and agro-allied sectors on the continent will in addition to transforming the lives of
some of the continent's poorest, strengthen Africa's capacity to absorb the new wave of young
talent entering the African workforce in the millions. We ascribe to the inclusive economic
philosophy of Africapitalism, based on the belief that a vibrant African-led private sector is the
key to unlocking Africa's economic and social potential. We are committed to driving African
economic growth through the empowering of African entrepreneurship in agriculture and
other sectors strategic to the continent's long term development.

They then completed a
rigorous 12-week online business skills training programme with support from 450 active mentors
– more than half of which have deep expertise in agriculture and closely related fields especially young girls and women .

Empower girls: enable girls to value themselves, to know and exercise their rights, to
develop skills to support their own life plans and to have opportunities to connect with their
peers and support one another. This can be achieved through programmes that equip girls
with training, skills, information, as well as the provision of safe spaces and support networks , farming , small scale businesses , tailored made training skills , with a start up seed capital , cooperative society initiative will be highly welcome in mechanized farming or hub , and access to land will  be considered as a priority .  

adolescent-friendly health services, to
ensuring that schools are accessible and child friendly,  providing safe spaces

 The skill
building measures are planned to improve the effectiveness of existing livelihood practices.
The project will not impose any practice that is locally unviable. The behavioural and
attitudinal changes brought in by the project among the women will empower them to actively
participate in decision making processes at the community level. The socio-cultural changes
brought in by the project, in terms of livelihood practices, will have lasting impact on the
target beneficiaries even beyond the project period. The project will significantly affect the
lives of tribal SHG members in their income generation activities, livelihood security and self
employ ability. It will strengthen the target tribal communities’ income generation
opportunities through tools and capacity building support. It is expected that the beneficiaries
will continue the livelihood practices, which directly contribute to increased family economy.
Further, the groups will continue to access resources from financial and government agencies
through the linkages created under the project.
to facilitate the SHGs to strengthen strong links with government schemes and projects so as
to generate the required assistance. Internal income will be generated in form of membership
fees, donations and revenue generated from community based institutions. The project will
promote Self Help Cooperative Society with objective of sharing information, conducting
training, providing financial and non financial services to its members. The Society, on the
completion of the project, plans to rise own funds through membership development fees,
nominal fees charged for its services to the groups, benefit events, grants from the
government and donors. The revenue generated will cover the Society’s operating expenses
 as minimal support to the groups created under the project.

The
economic deprivations of families, as well as girls and women’s lack of access to economic opportunities . and
resources affect their SRHR; a recent small-scale qualitative research showed that girls’ and young women’s
poverty and their poor bargaining power within society exposes them to greater risk of unsafe sex. , the practice of
Nigeria society and various consequences of initiation rites all affect SRHR.Discriminatory social norms such as
early marriage, contribute to preserving gender inequalities ,  the development of
a coherent strategy on gender and sexuality; improve the articulation between gender mainstreaming and
institutional development; develop gender specific, age appropriate, and culturally relevant sexuality education;
design and implement a clear model of care within the Youth Friendly Services for victims of sexual violence;
design communication initiatives to protect and promote young girls sexual and reproductive health and right with
a specific focus on those living with HIV and address the 10-14 age group in order to counter and prevent early
sexual debut, early pregnancies, child marriage etc the program takes into consideration the effect of girls and
young women’s economic empowerment on their agency, and consequently on their health, uptake of health
care services, number of children, health of their children etc Based on the fact that women’s capacity to bring
about economic change for themselves increasingly is viewed as the most important contributing factor to
achieving equality between women and men . the program anticipates that a stronger emphasis in providing
economic opportunities for the target group will assist in addressing the inequalities present in the geographic
areas fuelling the vulnerabilities and marginalization of girls

 with Government INVOLVED in  program circle
to ensure the necessary (financial) commitment to continue to implement the holistic approach towards girls and
young women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights and empowerment, as an integral part of OHCI , that
this program in reflecting. Increasing government commitment to targeted investment in marginalized and
vulnerable girls and young women: the vulnerability of the girls and young women in the area of sexual and
reproductive health and rights is demonstrated through the high numbers of girls married as children, teenager
pregnancy, cases of obstetric fistula, the feminization of HIV, maternal mortality among girls and young women
as well as the findings of the external review of OHCI . Therefore, is this program also aiming to produce results
and evidence to feed into policy advocacy on not solely the need for targeting and strategic efforts towards this
target group, but also to demonstrate good practices and approaches to be up-scaled and replicated

OHCI believes that it will be more effective in achieving our objectives by working together than by working alone by raising awareness of the harmful impact of child marriage by encouraging open, inclusive and informed discussion at the community , local , national and international level  . We believe that social change cannot be succeed without community engagement. OHCI amplify the voices of girls at risk of child marriage and defends the rights of girls to health, education and the opportunity to fulfill their potentials in line with the UN CONVENTION  on the rights of the child . OHCI is working with international civil society organization such as Civicus alliance team with on UN consultation status with stronger positioning on impact , innovation and accountability in the alliance wider sector , including through initiative such as failing forward and 14C Hubs.

The partnership alliance will undertake a variety of activities to improve the sustainability , security and effectiveness  of civil society action , particularly in repressed and closed civic space , then focus our data capacity development on strengthening civil society campaign through improved data collection , analyses and usage ,150 – plus organization will receive support to use survey as parts of SPEAK campaign events  We will continue to promote innovation as a tool to strengthen civil society based on the evidence of shared knowledge and practices, through collaboration and partnerships. More specifically, we will

The Andan Prize will build Knowledge and enable women ,children and youth to become innovators addressing global challenges and deepen our presence in West Africa in Human rights mainstream and strengthen local local capacity through train –the – trainer programs . Ensure sustainability by providing a coordinating technical support program for gender equality. The award would be an instrumental catalyst in creating opportunities for empowerment , job creation and changing lives of thousand young girls, boys, women , bring us closer to our vision of envision to regenerate food system in Nigeria in other to reduce poverty ,zero hunger , ignorance and spread wealth within our domain . We anticipated to rebuild the lives of young girls and women who were destroyed by Boko Haram militant groups , through seed money  grants to start small scale business , and support their families members to go back school within Nigeria . finally the benefit of the award  will engaged in all the organization process of informing and sharpening collectives priorities which would guide detailed annual planning. This collective mapping process provided direction for SLT to further refine and synthesis our cross –organizational priorities in relation to budget boundaries. These goal priorities also helped to strengthen the integration between cluster plans and, together with cross -cluster target, helped us choose activities that will best improve progress against strategy .   

The TEAM  aims to bring positive change in the livelihood practices of local people in communities Nigeria , The TEAM believes in human capacity development / income generating activities are considering the exiting socio economic livelihood practices which reduce violence, harm, torture and disease . The behavioral and attitudinal  change will sustain in the organization among women and young girls and will empower then to activity participate in decision making and will also have lasting impact on the target beneficiaries even beyond award period . The award will significantly affect the lives of the nominee and their income generation opportunities through tools and capacity building support . The TEAM will continue access resource from financial partners, possibly government agencies through the linkages created under the award .  OHCI plan to continue the good work in which they started to support human rights instruments and defender and the external support received Dutch government and other agencies will be scaled up and replicate through sound innovation strategy. Internal income in form of membership fees, donation , and revenue generated from community based institution . The nominee work promote self help corporative society with objective of sharing information ,conducting training , providing financial and non financial services to victim of abuse and violence in Nigeria .On completion of projects ,plan to raise it own funds through membership development fees, nominal fees charged for its service to the public , benefits events  

OHCI is expecting the following outcome and results

Outcome 1. Girls and Young women’s knowledge, voice and capacities strengthened to make informed decisions on their SRH, demand for and uptake of essential SRH services

Outcome 2. Universal access to integrated sexual and reproductive health services enhanced

Outcome 3. An enabling, free and safe environment for increased participation of girls and young women and the promotion of their SRH rights created

Outcome 4. Governance, and Coordination for integrated SRH programming at all levels strengthened This outcome intends to undertake an innovative set of evidence-based and integrated efforts towards addressing the gaps in behavioural outcomes under OHCI through strengthening the knowledge, agency and capacities of the most vulnerable girls and young women. The safe spaces model is at the core of this outcome, which includes the recruitment and training of young women as mentors to facilitate the mentorship and safe spaces for the target group of the program. The mentorship approach demonstrates an innovation of the current peer-to-peer approach under OHCI, and also intends to give the girls and young women a space to safely express themselves related to their sexual and reproductive health and rights. In that respect a focus under this outcome will be placed on the increased participation of girls and young women in the media to be

able to voice their issues, needs and opinions related to SRHR, and to influence other girls and young women, as well as the community at large.