Name of the project: “Innovative approaches to reaching isolated adolescent girls in Cox’s Bazar with critical GBV and SRH information and services”

Programme Area: Sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and gender-based violence (GBV)

Duration: March 2020 to December 2020

Funded by: WOMEN’S REFUGEE COMMISION (WRC)

Implementation area of PHD: Cox’s Bazar Refugee Camps 

Project aims to collect: 550 stories from adolescent girls, 300 stories from their caregivers, 100 stories from adolescent boys and young men, and 50 stories from other adults important to adolescent girls’ lives.

Project objectives: Main objectives of the project are;

1. Understanding barriers to access programs and services for adolescent Rohingya girls
2. Identifying interventions with the help of community stakeholders and implement in according to their needs and priorities, and enable the environment for adolescent girls to access SRH and GBV information and services.

Synopsis of the project:

The Women’s Refuge Commission (WRC) will be working to expand access to sexual and reproductive Health (SRH) and gender-based violence (GBV) information and services for adolescent Rohingya girls living in and around Cox’s Bazar. WRC will maintain an innovative technique to understand barriers to accessing information and services for adolescent Rohingya girls and identify innovative ways of reaching isolated adolescent girls with critical SRH and GBV information and services.

Partners in Health and Development (PHD) will work on finding the community barriers for adolescent girls and their needs and priorities and organize workshop with community stakeholders to present the existing situation and involve them in designing the program which will be befitting for the community girls. After designing the program, this team will go for interventions with explored and prepared program design. This organization will be responsible for review and adaptation of techniques and project protocols, recruitment, training and supervision of volunteers as well.