📋 Tender Overview
Project ID
110532Project ID
110533
Total Funding
CAD 626,700.00
IDRC Officer
Adrijana Corluka
Project Status
Active
Duration
36 months
Summary
In low-resource settings, far too often the intersection of psychosocial wellbeing and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) among adolescents in vulnerable populations is under-addressed. Health systems often fail to provide gender-sensitive and adolescent-friendly services, leading to inadequate SRH knowledge, unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections, with concurrent impacts on mental health.
This project aims to create a supportive ecosystem in Tandil, Argentina, that reduces psychosocial barriers, promotes gender-sensitive approaches, and strengthens the link between SRH services and mental health, enhancing the accessibility and quality of adolescents' SRH and mental health services. The team will leverage qualitative and quantitative data to assess the local health system's capacity and the social determinants impacting SRH access. A co-designed, multi-component intervention will include health-care worker training, adolescent empowerment programs and the development of a digital mHealth tool.
SRH service use, knowledge improvement and changes in psychosocial wellbeing will be measured in uninsured adolescents between 10 and 19 years old. The composite outcome that will be assessed includes the increased use of contraception, counselling sessions and condoms. The anticipated impact includes increased gender equity in health outcomes, enhanced mental health and wellbeing, improved accessibility and quality of SRH services and informed policies and practices.
This project is part of a second cohort of research projects in Latin America and the Caribbean and the Middle East and North Africa to support research on the understudied area of the interface between sexual, reproductive and maternal health and mental health.
Total Funding
CAD 626,600.00
IDRC Officer
Adrijana Corluka
Project Status
Active
Duration
30 months
Summary
In Peru, menstruation remains a taboo topic, rarely discussed within families and communities, and even less so in schools. Poor menstrual health management services in health, educational and sanitation systems can affect girls’ mental and physical health, educational attainment and exercise of their rights. In 2021, Peru’s Congress approved a law instructing the ministries of health and education to address menstrual health management services for girls, adolescents and women living in poverty and extreme poverty.
This study will assess whether the implementation of the law responds to the needs of the populations served, and what factors, including gender, stigma and intersectionality, influence its effectiveness. It also aims to generate knowledge to close gaps in the sexual, reproductive and mental health needs of girls and adolescents in vulnerable situations in Peru by co-designing and piloting a national plan for menstrual he
