CERF-funded Project

Somalia

Improving access to quality lifesaving priority sexual and reproductive Health (SRH) services to vulnerable women and girls in IDP Settlements and host communities in the drought affected areas (21-RR-FPA-008)

Project overview

UNFPA allocation of $500,000 from CERF provided 2,523 live births assisted by skilled health personnel, 1,327 emergency obstetric and newborn complications managed in the project facilities, and 1,780 beneficiaries reached with reproductive health services such as family planning counseling and services for women of reproductive age. UNFPA and partners reached 18,062 through five (5) SRH mobile outreach campaigns, In addition, 22 women and girls benefitted from clinical management of rape (CMR) services in the health facilities and 1,823 women and girls reached with psychosocial services through the outreach campaigns. UNFPA procured and distributed the inter-agency reproductive health kits. In total 29,101 were reached; 24,736 women, 2,909 girls, 582 men and 874 boys) direct beneficiaries including displaced persons and persons with disabilities