📋 Tender Overview
This project aims to increase the economic empowerment of women and adolescent girls as well as their access to mental, sexual, and reproductive health services in the Niamey and Agadez regions of Niger. Project activities include: (1) setting up a transformational leadership school for women's economic groups members; (2) providing training for peer educators to carry out awareness-raising activities on the health rights of women and adolescent girls; (3) supplying medicines and medical equipment to health facilities; and (4) training and mobilizing educators and ambassadors of change to promote the right to health and the economic empowerment of women and adolescent girls. The project's direct beneficiaries are estimated at 33,000 women and adolescent girls. Indirect beneficiaries are estimated at over 348,000 members of the communities targeted by the project.
The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) increased economic empowerment of women and adolescent girls that allows them to meet their basic needs and sustainably grow their businesses while taking into account climate change and other potential shocks; (2) increased women’s and adolescent girls’ use of health services, in particular primary health care and sexual and reproductive health, including gender-based violence and mental health; and (3) increased engagement of stakeholders in the economic, and cultural sectors in favor of the rights and empowerment of women and adolescent girls.
