Year: 2023 - 2024
Supported by: COREGroup
Major Component: Advocacy, Sensitization, SRHR, Safe Abortion, Family planning, Menstruation, Gender-Based Violence, Disability, LGBTIQA+, Value Clarification, Young People
Empowerment for SRHR (YES) is an initiative that is designed to address the unmet sexual and reproductive health needs of particular groups, such as the LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) community and women with disabilities. The project is supported by CORE Group. Through a youth-led initiative in the community and the use of various popular platforms, different interventions at the grass-roots and local government level will be prioritized through this project with the goal of ensuring judgment-free SRHR services to every individual with diverse backgrounds, with shared responsibility from the concerned stakeholder to make SRHR services accessible.
We recruited 28 young individuals from all 7 provinces as our Youth champions and were value clarified related to SRHR including contraceptives and safe abortion, gender-based violence, advocacy, and activism tools. Upon receiving the training Youth champions developed their action plan to create awareness in their respective region.
Our Youth champions have been conducting numerous community-based awareness programs. In total 12 individual sessions and 2 group sessions have been conducted reaching around 490 young individuals in their diversities. They have been conducting sessions on Safe Abortion, Family Planning, and Menstrual Hygiene Management along with the SRHR. These sessions have also focused on the need for SRHR services for persons with disabilities, and sexual and gender minorities.
Our Youth champions from Lumbini Province also celebrated pride month with a first-ever pride parade at Nepalgunj. The first-ever Pride Parade was organized jointly by Western Star Nepal along with the Federation of Sexual and Gender Minorities Nepal (FSGMN), Visible Impact, and Yuwa Nepal. The Pride Parade received an overwhelming response from the community, with over 116 individuals actively participating in the event. This strong support reflected the growing recognition and willingness of the LGBTIQA+ community to stand alongside them in their fight for equal rights.
Under the project, we have developed a duffle bag as the visibility material with the message #SRHR4ALL. These materials were distributed to our Youth champions, facilitators, and volunteers. The main aim of this visibility material is to initiate a conversation around SRHR in the community.
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Email : mail.visim@gmail.com
Website : www.visim.org
Visim envisions creating visible impact on lives of every girl, every woman and every youth by unleashing the social and economic leadership of girls, women and youth through beneficiary-partnered innovative interventions.
