By Michael Anyeko Enyakoit | Executive Director
The project will save 6,800 vulnerable girls from dropping out of school by providing a Package of scholastic materials, Uniforms, school fees and training on sanitary pads making as Menstrual Hygiene and management approach for girl child school retention in Eastern and Northern Uganda. The project targets 24 schools to boost education of girls affected by Poverty, war trauma, and cultural practices including early marriage. This reporting APPCO is conducting parenting education, VSLA trainings, Advocacy campaigns and trainings of teachers and care givers as structures that support education of girls within the targeted schools
Progress Activities implemented
Activity 1.0: To conduct Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights Advocacy Campaigns
APPCO played a lead role in organizing SRHR advocacy initiatives that brought together different stakeholders, raised awareness and empowered adolescent girls and boys to become drivers of their own advocacy. These initiatives included; SRHR awareness campaigns that empowered adolescent advocates, dialogues on gender and social norm change which prompted a total of 215(125m, the stakeholders to rethink and support positive social change that challenged harmful social norms and thus increasing the uptake of SRHR services by adolescent girls and boys. The Girl’s Parliament Forums were also APPCO’s initiative to promote SRHR advocacy for adolescent girls and young women out of school. In these forums, the girls had direct interface discussions tabling their issues to the relevant stakeholders herein referring to the government officials who have the mandate for implementation of national policies, with some influence too, because of this, the girls were allocated time in the local radio stations where they now participate in radio talk shows along with local leaders advocating for the protection of their rights as adolescents and increased access to SRHR services for adolescents.
APPCO created relevant networks with different stakeholders and development partners at the district and sub county level and this made the duty bearers to take up their role in the promotion and protection of SRH rights for adolescents. For girls in school, APPCO staff worked along with teachers (school club patrons) and the club members. specifically with the debating clubs, child rights clubs, health clubs and the Girl Equity movement to spearhead advocacy initiatives in schools through awareness creation and empowerment, the debating clubs organized school debates with topics on SRHR, GBV and MHM. Through this, adolescents were able to highlight the issues affecting them, participate in decision making and advocate for improvement in provision of SRHR services and facilities in schools as well as push for the promotion and realization of their SRH rights.
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