Reproductive Health Services Training and Education Program  2017-2021 - RHSTEP 2017-2021 Reproductive Health Services Training and Education Program  2017-2021 The purpose of the project is to contribute in reduction of Maternal Mortality, morbidity from unsafe abortion and improve the Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) situation of women and adolescents in the Project areas.

This project targets to achieve 152825 MR conducted , 38910 patient managed for Complications of unsafe
abortion , distribution of 367716 FP methods , 155986 individual received Reproductive Health service at school, community and garments, Institutionalized and sustainable attention at the national level to ensure access to safe abortion and family planning.

This will be achieved by ensuring that poor and marginalized women and adolescents don't face any financial barrier to access safe MR and modern Family Planning (FP) methods; Providing comprehensive MR and PAC training to health service providers, raising awareness and creation of Demand of SRHR and Supporting Changes in the policy environments for abortion services. SRHR project will help Bangladesh to achieve universal health coverage (SDG 3),  by ensuring safe MR services, increasing family planning use and reducing maternal mortality in Bangladesh and creating enabling Environment to exercise sexual reproductive Health and rights. Insatsen syftar på att förbättra sexuell och reproduktiv hälsa i Bangladesh och är direkt kopplad till rättighets- och fattigdomsperspektivet. Insatsen ligger också i linje med de prioriteringarna i den svenska resultatstrategin med Bangladesh och inkluderar de fyra principerna om deltagande, icke-diskriminering, öppenhet och ansvarsutkrävande på ett tillfredsställande sätt.

Ambassaden bedömer att insatsen är relevant för svenskt stöd då det inkluderar mänskliga rättigheter och jämställdhet mellan kvinnor och män som är de tematiska prioriteringar för svenskt utvecklingssamarbete. De identifierade indikatorerna bedöms vara realistiska och mätbara. Utbredd korruption, utmaningar kring projektets hållbarhet genom avsaknad av potentiella givare och växande religiösa känslor bedöms som de stora riskerna med programmet.

Som riskreducerande åtgärder måste RHSTEP ta itu med de rekommendationer som identifierats i analysen om kapacitetsbedömning, bl. a. för att minimera de interna riskerna i samband med programmet. För att minska den externa risken kommer RHSTEP att ytterligare förbättra relationen med ministeriet, gemenskapen och andra relevanta intressenter. Dessa kommer att följas upp genom dialog. Programmet kommer att kontinuerligt följas upp av ambassaden. Utfasningen av stödet till RHSTEP från Sverige sker under angiven tidsperiod. Utvärderings sker mid-term. The overall objective of the project is to contribute in reduction of Maternal Mortality, morbidity from unsafe abortion and improve the SRHR situation of women and adolescents in the project areas. There are 7 outcomes described in the Project.
Outcome-1: Improved Skills of Service providers for SRHR services.; Outcome-2: Improved capacity of the consortium in SRHR program management.. Outcome-3: Increased access to quality SRHR services for women, adolescents and men; Outcome-4: Enhanced knowledge of the women and adolescents in the project areas to make informed choice pertaining to their sexual and reproductive health needs; Outcome-5: Strengthened monitoring, Research, Evaluation and Documentation processes in the consortium. Outcome-6: Strengthened advocacy and social networking initiatives for improving SRHR situation. Outcome-7: Sustainability of the consortium improved.  During the entire project period it aims to achieve 152825 MR conducted , 38910 patient managed for complications of unsafe abortion , distribution of 367716 FP methods , 155986 individual received reproductive health education and service at school, community and garments, Institutionalized and sustainable attention at the national level to ensure access to safe abortion and family planning.