Strategic Aim 1
Civil society increasingly promotes and adopts a rights based approach to sexual and reproductive health and HIV and AIDS to better meet the needs of poor, vulnerable and marginalised people
Rationale
Poverty, inequality and the exclusion of specific groups in society such as young people, women, men who have sex with men, sex workers, drug users and migrants is strongly correlated with vulnerability to HIV and AIDS and very poor sexual and reproductive health outcomes such as maternal death, endemic sexually transmitted infection and gender based violence. Lack of power can lead to an inability to exercise basic rights.
Interact Worldwide works through participatory methodologies with communities, groups and Civil Society organisations to recognise, promote and secure these rights and to advance sexual and reproductive health equity. We build our partner organisations’ capacity in rights based approaches and understanding of their role in respect to vulnerable groups. This is achieved through both training in rights based programming, project design and monitoring and evaluation specifically looking at marginalised groups.
INTERACT WORLDWIDE: PAKISTAN A project in rural Southern Punjab actively works to promote reproductive health services and build understanding and awareness about SRH&R throughout marginalised, poor women and girls in the community. The project aims to increase access to high-quality reproductive health services by providing services directly, while also empowering women to access them and increasing community support for reproductive health services. Additionally, IW has a robust programme of work that involves supporting CSO in promoting rights and improved SRH in an area of Pakistan with some of the highest populations of marginalised people and a rapidly growing epidemic. The key groups targeted include injecting drug users, sex workers, men who have sex with men, and people living with HIV and AIDS, all of whom face severe stigma and discrimination and the associated denial of rights and services. Our programme aims to improve the SRH status and reduce HIV incidence in order to improve quality of life of key vulnerable populations in line with the explicit objectives of the National HIV&AIDS Strategic Framework. |