PLURIELLES

Strengthening Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Benin, Burkina Faso, and Mali

Project Summary

Based on a multisectoral approach that combines health, human rights, and economic empowerment, the PLURIELLES project allows women and adolescent girls’ girls to be safely supported across a continuum of services: prevention of gender-based violence (GBV), medical care, psychosocial support, and economic reintegration.

Objectives

  • Increase health rights
  • Improve the quality, access, and demand for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) services
  • Adapt services to vulnerable or marginalized women and adolescent girls

Results and impact

  • 23% increase in the number of visits (consultations) for family planning services
  • 26% increase in visits for sexual health services
  • 72 health facilities/health centres rehabilitated or equipped
  • 21% increase in visits for reproductive health services (antenatal care, postnatal care, assisted childbirth)
  • 19 advancements and new measures adopted at the national level to improve SRHR services and provide care for GBV survivors

Testimonials

For Sylvie EHAKO ADOHINZIN, Gender Equality and GBV Advisor for the PLURIELLES project:
“This project strives to raise the voices of those who are unheard, and therefore cannot stand aside from an initiative whose medium-term objective is to eradicate GBV.”

She emphasized that communities have the power to say no to GBV and noted that victims can be of any gender, even if women are more often affected. For her, it is essential that everyone gets involved in this struggle.

“GBV—whether physical, psychological, sexual, or economic—destroys lives and jeopardizes the future of the community.”

  • Marcelline LAKOUSSAN
    Athiémè Municipality (Benin)

Partners

  • Consortium project with:
    • Lawyers Without Borders Canada (ASFC)
    • Santé Monde
  • Institutional partners:
    • Ministères chargés de la santé (Bénin, Burkina Faso et Mali) et leurs instances décentralisées dans les régions du Mono, des Cascades et de Kayes
    • Ministères chargés de la promotion de la femme, de l’enfant et de la famille (Burkina Faso et Mali)
    • Ministère des affaires sociales et de la microfinance (Bénin)
    • Ministères de la justice (Bénin, Burkina Faso, Mali)
    • Les Commissions nationales des droits humains (Bénin, Burkina Faso et Mali)
    • Plusieurs organisations de la société civile et des avocat-e-s (Bénin, Burkina Faso et Mali)

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