The Regional SRHR Fund’s latest technical brief aims to support an evidence-led advocacy process by focusing on age of access to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) services for adolescents in selected Eastern and Southern African countries. By analyzing current legal and policy frameworks, the brief explores how age of access regulations impact the ability of adolescents and young people to secure essential SRHR…

The undersigned organization are gravely concerned that every year, 12 million girls are married or in unions worldwide with an estimated 640 million girls and women alive today who were married as children.

This case study examines how the Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights has built and supported a grassroots sub-regional youth movement to enhance young people’s access to sexual and reproductive health services and information, including safe and legal abortion.

The Regional SRHR Fund developed a Malawi Age of Consent contextual analysis with the aim to support the undertaking of an evidence-led advocacy process by focusing on age of consent barriers to adolescents’ access to SRH services in Malawi.

A case study of Zambian Youth Platform promoting adolescent access to sexual and reproductive health services

The case study is part of the Regional SRHR Fund’s documentation of case studies aimed at supporting cross learning and knowledge sharing to enable organizations conceptualize, design and coordinate adolescent SRHR advocacy. This initiative has been made possible with support from Sida through the Regional SRHR Fund.

The Regional SRHR Fund developed a policy brief with the aim to support law, policy and practice that promote and protect adolescents’ access to SRH information and services in East and Southern Africa.

The case study is part of the Regional SRHR Fund’s documentation of case studies aimed at supporting cross learning and knowledge sharing to enable organizations conceptualize, design and coordinate adolescent SRHR advocacy. This initiative has been made possible with support from Sida through its Regional SRHR Team for Africa.

This case study showcases the importance of working with a critical mass of traditional leaders on adolescent SRHR campaigns.

The case study is about the ways youth take a leadership role in safe abortion advocacy. It is part of the Regional SRHR Fund’s documentation of case studies aimed at supporting cross learning and knowledge sharing to enable organizations conceptualize, design and coordinate adolescent SRHR advocacy.

Dream Achievers Youth Organization (DAYO) with support from Hivos through the Regional SRHR Fund undertook a youth advocacy project aimed at improving access to SRHR information and services for youth in Mombabsa, Kenya.

Young people at the advocacy frontline

This Youth-led Social Accountability in ASRHR case study showcases AAAZ’s approaches and strategies in promoting meaningful youth participation in social accountability.

The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) utilizes the Strategic Litigation approach to promote and advance human rights and the rule of law in Southern Africa. With Support from Hivos, through the Regional Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), SALC implemented a ‘Strategic litigation for social change for adolescent SRHR’ project.

It is this case study’s contention that SRHR of refugees are not prioritized for adequate integration in humanitarian planning and work. Because of this general failure to appropriately recog- nize refugees’ SRHR (SRHR), the existing challenges in broader society’s SRHR are exacerbated among vulnerable groups.

Hivos, through the Regional Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) Fund, commissioned a case study on evidence-based advocacy for social accountability in adolescent SRHR – a case study of SAfAIDS in Zambia.