Marie Stopes Zambia 2018-2021 Marie Stopes Zambia 2018-2021 Marie Stopes Zambia has applied to Sida for funding of 40 Million SEK to carry out the Scaling Up Access to Comprehensive SRHR for Women and Girls in Zambia during the period 2018-2021. The contribution aims to increase equitable access and utilization of sexual and reproductive health services. MSZ works in close collaboration with local and central health authorities to provide modern family planning services, information and education about SRHR and with provision of drugs, counselling and access to safe abortion services. A clear focus is to provide quality services to young women and girls in both urban and rural settings, in particular poor women and girls and other disenfranchised and hard to reach populations such as disabled and hiv infected women and adolescents. Marie Stopes Zambia har inkommit med en ansökan om stöd om 40 MSEK till att genomföra programmet Scaling Up Access to Comprehensive SRHR for Women and Girls in Zambia under perioden 2018-2021. Insatsen syftar till att förbättra tillgången och utnyttjandet av hälso- och sjukvårdstjänster inom ramen för sexuell och reproduktiv hälsa. MSZ arbetar brett med att bistå de zambiska hälsomyndigheterna med att erbjuda kvinnor och flickor moderna preventivmedel, information och utbildning om sex, samlevnad och reproduktiv hälsa samt med tillgång till mediciner, rådgivning och service kring säkra aborter. Ett tydligt fokus är på fattiga kvinnor, ungdomar och unga kvinnor både på landsbygden och i urbana områden och samt andra marginaliserade grupper som t ex funktionshindrade och hiv-smittade. Marie Stopes Zambia (MSZ) aims to improve women's health and reduce maternal mortality in Zambia. This is expected to be achieved through two main results: 
1) Increased use of contraception and access to safe abortions among poor and marginalized women and girls; and 
2) Enhanced SRHR policies and successful implementation of these. 

MSZ has formulated three results to be achieved within the framework of this specific intervention: 
1. Increased access to modern high-quality contraceptives and safe abortion services, especially for marginalized women and adolescents. 
2. Increased awareness of contraception and safe abortion through education and information to decision-makers at community level; to poor and marginalized women and young people. 
3. Enhanced advocacy work to create an improved legal and policy environment for contraception and access to safe abortion.

MSZ programme activities thus include direct healthcare services in close collaboration with central and local health authorities, support to MSZ's health clinics and social marketing in local markets to ensure that medical abortion drugs are available at pharmacies. MSZ will also strengthen its partnership with the government through the establishment of contracts to provide specific services on behalf of the government, to further develop a digital communication model to facilitate the concrete availability of safe abortion, and to cooperate with the Ministry of Healths health clinics to provide youth-friendly SRHR services for young people. MSZ will also participate in advocacy work and conduct dialogue for political change in the area of access to safe abortion and for contraceptives and other reproductive health commodities. MSZ will engage in strategic partnerships for community engagement with local partners. The Sida-funded initiative is expected to ensure that 102,500 women and girls access SRHR services, 14,900 medical abortion pills are distributed and 16,000 safe abortions can be performed. The effort is estimated to prevent 455 maternal deaths, 48,000 unintended pregnancies and 27,700 unsafe abortions.