Health Development Initiative 2023-2025 Health Development Initiative 2023-2025 The three-year contribution (2023-2025) provides core funding to Health Development Initiative (HDI), a local Rwandan civil society organisation that champions the advancement of Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights in the country and the East African region at large. The contribution aims at supporting HDI’s three strategic interventions.
Strategic Objective 1: Supporting HDI in becoming a Center of excellence on health and rights which will encompasses the provision of comprehensive SRHR information   and services to women, men, girls, boys and people of all gender identities, including vulnerable populations such as people living with HIV, sex workers, GBV victims, LGBTIQ+ people, refugees, and prisoners. These services include screening for STIs, HIV and AIDS, pregnancy testing, family planning counselling, provision of emergency contraceptives, pre¬ and post¬abortion counselling, and information, referral, and legal aid to women seeking safe abortion. HDI also aims at providing direct stigma free health services provision physical clinics and a Hotline – SRHR responsive,  which is critical to HDI’s work to make rights¬based, non¬discriminatory SRH services, making it available to those who need them most. It is also integral to HDI's advocacy work as it allows HDI to demonstrate what rights¬based clinical care looks like and to understand the unique needs and challenges the ultimate beneficiaries face in accessing SRH information and services.
Strategic Objective 2: Be an empowering voice of the community on health and rights
This contribution will enable HDI’s work to support and empower communities to know, demand, and realize their rights, including to comprehensive, non-discriminatory health, SRH information and care. It includes providing comprehensive sexuality education to adolescents and young people through SHARE clubs, radio shows and YouTube videos. It also includes work with duty bearers – policymakers, service providers, law enforcement – to ensure they understand and have the capacity to fulfill these rights obligations. It also includes work through civil society partnerships, to advocate at local, national, and regional levels for non¬discriminatory, rights¬based SRH policies and to remove legal and policy barriers to accessing SRH care, including safe abortion. This is achieved in part through HDI's participation in the East African Community and international human rights mechanisms such as CEDAW, CRC, and the UPR. To support this, HDI aims at building civil society capacity and coalitions to advocate for inclusive, health¬friendly policies and services for everyone regardless of social, cultural, economic, or any other status.
Strategic Objective 3 : Pursue institutional growth and learning
This contribution through Sida’s support will also aim at improving  HDI’s work to develop the organization’s capacity to effectively advance and advocate for a more inclusive, stigma¬free society in which every person is able to attain the highest standard of health. It includes efforts to support professional development of staff, including on gender transformative approaches, and to build internal systems on communication and monitoring and evaluation (knowledge management). It also includes efforts to expand staffing and funding and to build organizational systems and processes that align with the organization’s growth and trajectory. Det treåriga stödet (2023–2025) ger kärnfinansiering till Health Development Initiative (HDI) – en lokal civilsamhällesorganisation i Rwanda som kämpar för främjandet av sexuell reproduktiv hälsa och rättigheter (SRHR) i landet och den östafrikanska regionen i stort. Stödet syftar till att stödja HDI:s tre strategiska insatser.
Strategiskt mål 1: Stödja HDI i att bli ett kompetenscentrum för hälsa och rättigheter 
Detta kommer att omfatta tillhandahållandet av omfattande SRHR-information och tjänster till kvinnor, män, flickor, pojkar och människor oavsett könsidentitet, inklusive utsatta befolkningsgrupper, däribland människor som lever med HIV, sexarbetare, offer av GBV, HGBTIQ+-personer, flyktingar och fångar. Dessa tjänster inkluderar medicinska kontroller av sexuellt överförbara sjukdomar - HIV och AIDS, graviditetstest, familjeplaneringsrådgivning, tillhandahållande av akuta preventivmedel, rådgivning före och efter abort samt information, remiss och rättshjälp till kvinnor som söker säker abort. HDI har även avsikten att tillhandahålla direkta avstigmatiserade hälsotjänster som tillhandahåller fysiska kliniker och en krislinje – SRHR-respons. Detta är avgörande för HDI:s arbete med att göra rättighetsbaserade, icke-diskriminerande SRH-tjänster, vilket gör det tillgängligt för dem som behöver det mest. Det är även en integrerad del av HDI:s påverkansarbete eftersom det möjliggör för HDI att visa hur rättighetsbaserad klinisk vård ser ut och att förstå de unika behov och utmaningar som de ultimata förmånstagarna möter när det gäller att få tillgång till SRH-information och tjänster.
Strategiskt mål 2: Vara en stärkande röst för samhället om hälsa och rättigheter
Detta stöd kommer att möjliggöra HDI:s arbete med att stödja och ge samhällen möjlighet att känna till, kräva och förstå sina rättigheter, inklusive en omfattande icke-diskriminerande hälsa, SRH-information och vård. Det inkluderar att tillhandahålla omfattande sexualundervisning till ungdomar och ungdomar genom SHARE-klubbar, radioprogram och YouTube-videos. Det inkluderar även arbete med ansvariga – beslutsfattare, tjänsteleverantörer och rättsväsendet – för att säkerställa att de förstår och har kapacitet att uppfylla dessa rättigheter. Det inkluderar även arbete genom civilsamhällets partnerskap, för att förespråka på lokal, regional och nationell nivå för icke-diskriminerande, rättighetsbaserad SRH-policy och eliminera juridiska och politiska hinder i syfte att att få tillgång till SRH-vård, inklusive säker abort. Detta uppnås delvis genom HDI:s deltagande i den östafrikanska gemenskapen och internationella människorättsmekanismer som CEDAW, CRC och UPR. För att stödja detta syftar HDI till att bygga kapacitet för civilsamhället och koalitioner för att förespråka inkluderande, hälsovänliga policyer och tjänster för alla oavsett social, kulturell, ekonomisk eller annan status.
Strategiskt mål 3: Sträva efter institutionell tillväxt och lärande
Detta stöd, genom stöd av Sida, har även syftet till att förbättra HDI:s arbete med att utveckla organisationers förmåga att effektivt främja och förespråka ett mer inkluderande, avstigmatiserat samhälle där varje människa har möjlighet att uppnå högsta möjliga hälsa. Det inkluderar insatser för att stödja professionell utveckling av anställda, inklusive genustransformerande tillvägagångssätt samt att bygga interna system för kommunikation, övervakning och utvärdering (kunskapshantering). Det inkluderar även ansträngningar för att utöka bemanningen och finansieringen samt att bygga organisationssystem och processer som är i linje med organisationens tillväxt och framtidsutsikt. HDIs work is guided by their current Strategic Plan 2018-2024. The Strategic Plan is organized around achieving three Strategic Objectives:

Strategic Objective 1: Become a Center of excellence on health and rights

This objective encompasses the provision of comprehensive SRHR information and services to women, men, girls, boys and people of all gender identities, including vulnerable populations such as people living with HIV, sex workers, GBV victims, LGBTIQ people, refugees, and prisoners. These services include screening for STIs, HIV and AIDS, pregnancy testing, family planning counselling, provision of emergency contraceptives, pre- and post-abortion counselling, and information, referral, and legal aid to women seeking safe abortion. Direct service provision  through HDI's two physical clinics and the SRHR Hotline  is critical to HDIs work to make rights-based, non-discriminatory SRH services available to those who need them most. It is also integral to HDI's advocacy work as it allows HDI to demonstrate what rights-based clinical care looks like and to understand the unique needs and challenges the populations we serve face in accessing SRH information and services.

Strategic Objective 2: Be an empowering voice of the community on health and rights

This objective encompasses HDIs work to support and empower communities to know, demand, and realize their rights, including to comprehensive, non-discriminatory health, SRH information and care. It includes providing comprehensive sexuality education to adolescents and young people through SHARE clubs, radio shows and YouTube videos. It also includes work with duty-bearers  policymakers, service providers, law enforcement  to ensure they understand and have the capacity to fulfill these rights obligations. It also includes work  through civil society partnerships  to advocate at local, national and regional levels for non-discriminatory, rights-based SRH policies and to remove legal and policy barriers to accessing SRH care, including safe abortion. This is achieved in part through HDI's participation in the East African Community and international human rights mechanisms such as CEDAW, CRC, and the UPR. To support this, HDI builds civil society capacity and coalitions to advocate for inclusive, health-friendly policies and services for everyone regardless of social, cultural, economic, or any other status.

Strategic Objective 3: Pursue institutional growth and learning

This objective encompasses HDIs work to develop the organizations capacity to effectively advance and advocate for a more inclusive, stigma-free society in which every person is able to attain the highest standard of health. It includes efforts to support professional development of staff, including on gender transformative approaches, and to build internal systems on communication and monitoring and evaluation (knowledge management). It also includes efforts to expand staffing and funding and to build organizational systems and processes that align with the organizations growth and trajectory.

The three strategic objectives within HDI's Strategic Plan 2018-2024 are linked to HDI's vision: A society in which everyone has the opportunity to enjoy the highest attainable standard of health and well-being, regardless of social, cultural, economic or any other status, as well as to HDI's organisational mission: To empower individuals, communities, and institutions to improve community health and development in Rwanda. Using a rights-based approach, HDI builds sustainable alliances to advocate for and support inclusive, health-friendly policies and services for everyone regardless of social, cultural, economic or any other status.

Through providing un-earmarked support to HDI's overall Strategic Plan, the Embassy's objective is to localize the SRHR agenda and empower a leading local civil society organisation, which will enable institutional strengthening and sustainability. Supporting HDI's organizational capacity development, the Embassy aims to enable local ownership which is more sustainable and beneficial to the context, while at the same time addressing the SRHR needs of the most marginalized Rwandans.