{"id":4665,"date":"2021-11-25T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ca\/?post_type=actualite&#038;p=4665"},"modified":"2026-10-02T04:31:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T09:31:43","slug":"projet-respect","status":"publish","type":"actualite","link":"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ca\/en\/article\/projet-respect\/","title":{"rendered":"Support for Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights \u2013 SRHR"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":4666,"template":"","actualite_type":[10],"actualite_sujet":[],"action_combat":[],"mdm_pays":[],"class_list":["post-4665","actualite","type-actualite","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","actualite_type-international-actions"],"acf":{"mise_en_avant":false,"chapeau":"","cta_type":"aucun","cta_lien":"","contenu":"<h2>Doctors of the World launches the RESPECT project, in partnership with the Government of Canada, to increase the enjoyment of health-related rights by persons in situations of vulnerability and marginality, particularly adolescent girls and young women aged 10 to 24 in Burkina Faso, Benin and Haiti.<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Over the next five years, the project plans to reach a total of 846,000 people, including 510,700 girls and women.<\/strong> Given the demographic weight in the three countries targeted by the project, young people represent key influencers for the adoption of new health-related behaviours.<\/p>\n<h2>A challenging context for gender equality<\/h2>\n<p>A study conducted by Doctors of the World highlights low human development indices and the presence of significant gender inequalities in the three countries targeted by the project. <strong>These results demonstrate the existence of obstacles (legislative, structural, social, cultural and economic) to the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights \u2013 SRHR of adolescents and young people<\/strong>, such as: the lack of accessible quality information, the difficulty in freely accessing sexual and reproductive health services, and health services that are poorly adapted to the needs of adolescents and young people.<\/p>\n<h3>Data shows that women become pregnant relatively young and have little access to means of planning their pregnancies.<\/h3>\n<ul><li>In Haiti, only 56.3% of women make informed decisions alone regarding sexual relations, contraception, and sexual and reproductive health, 20% in Burkina Faso and 38% in Benin;<\/li><li>The unmet need for family planning among women aged 15 to 49 is 35% in Haiti, 27% in Burkina Faso and 30% in Benin. (According to UNFPA 2019 online data)<\/li><\/ul>\n<p>Through a participatory and inclusive approach, Doctors of the World aims to contribute to the empowerment and self-determination of adolescent girls and young women in terms of health, and recognizes that they represent an essential force for change and development in Benin, Burkina Faso and Haiti.<\/p>\n<h3>The project will be implemented in health, community, legal and political settings. The objectives are as follows:<\/h3>\n<ul><li>Make modern contraceptive methods accessible to young people aged 15 to 24;<\/li><li>Improve access to quality sexual and reproductive health services for adolescents and young people aged 10 to 24;<\/li><li>Increase by 80% the number of adolescent girls and young women in the targeted regions with access to sexual and reproductive health services, including quality, adapted, inclusive and equitable modern contraceptive methods;<\/li><li>Deploy active advocacy by organizations working for the rights of women and girls, as well as health authorities;<\/li><li>Ensure that 90% of health services are able to provide care for gender-based violence.<\/li><\/ul>\n<h3>The RESPECT project adopts an approach based on innovative actions:<\/h3>\n<ul><li>The \u201csolidarity kit,\u201d which, by using social and solidarity economy mechanisms, aims to increase the availability of health and sexual and reproductive health products (including condoms) in remote rural areas or marginalized urban zones in Haiti and Benin with limited access to these products;<\/li><li>The use of new information and communication technologies to raise public awareness and directly engage authorities;<\/li><li>The establishment in Benin of Integrated Centres for the care of gender-based violence offering the following services: social assistance, psychological support, medical care, midwifery, judiciary and judicial police;<\/li><li>The partnership in Haiti with Lawyers Without Borders Canada to strengthen advocacy actions on the health rights of adolescents and young people.<\/li><\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/MdM_FicheRespect_2023.pdf\">Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This project will be carried out in collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicosdelmundo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Doctors of the World Spain<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medecinsdumonde.org\/fr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Doctors of the World France<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Doctors of the World Switzerland<\/a> and in partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asfcanada.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lawyers Without Borders Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"prose-figure\"><img src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/banner-AMC.png\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>","temps_lecture":4,"legende_couverture":"","signature_nom":"","signature_role":"","signature_initiales":"","signature_avatar":"","communique_lien":"","communique_libelle":"","encadre_titre":"","encadre_texte":"","partenaires_titre":"","partenaires":null,"reseaux_partage":["facebook","twitter","linkedin","email","copy"],"evenement_date":null,"evenement_type":"","evenement_lieu":"","evenement_inscription":"","presse_afficher":false,"presse_surtitre":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actualite\/4665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actualite"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/actualite"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actualite\/4665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4667,"href":"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actualite\/4665\/revisions\/4667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"actualite_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actualite_type?post=4665"},{"taxonomy":"actualite_sujet","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actualite_sujet?post=4665"},{"taxonomy":"action_combat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/action_combat?post=4665"},{"taxonomy":"mdm_pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medecinsdumonde.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mdm_pays?post=4665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}