February 2021 – September 2025
Senegal
Senegal has relatively low sexual and reproductive health (SRH) indicators, particularly in terms of the realisation of sexual and reproductive rights (SRHR) for young people and adolescents (Y&A). Access rates to family planning and contraceptive methods are low overall, and rates of pregnancy, early marriage and gender-based violence are high, with strong regional disparities within the country. However, the country presents a context that is conducive to targeted actions on these subjects, with a relatively well-developed legal framework, although largely unenforced, an active civil society that brings together a wide range of actors, and several interventions carried out by the country’s Technical and Financial Partners (TFPs), which complement each other and which can be strengthened, extended and made to work together.
Beneficiaries
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Young people and adolescents
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Health and community health workers
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Community leaders
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Parents and educators
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Local and national policy makers
Results
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The range of SRH services in the project areas is expanded and better adapted to the needs of young people and adolescents. Its quality and access are improved and the skills of its agents are strengthened.
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Young people and adolescents in the project’s areas of intervention have the knowledge and capacity to assert their choices and preferences regarding their sexual and reproductive health, reducing gender-based discrimination and violence.
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Communities, as well as decision-makers at community, local and national levels, are better informed, sensitised and more aware of the needs and rights of young people and adolescents in order to influence the adoption of policies that are more supportive of SRHR and gender equality.
