Project of strengthening the supply and demand of civil register as well as health and social welfare services in CSPS, (PRODEPS)

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Save the Children Finland’s EU DEVCO -funded PRODEPS project aims at contributing to strengthening the supply and demand of the civil register as well as health care and social welfare services (family planning, fights against gender-based-violence (GBV), sexual and reproductive health of the youth (SRH) in CSPS, communes and schools in the Provinces of Cascades, Hauts Bassins and Sud-Ouest. The duration of the project is 36 months (1 February 2019 – 31 January 2022), and the total volume of the project is EUR 3,675,000. The project focuses on increasing the quality and access to services as well on social mobilisation from children’s and women’s rights, resilience capacity building and parental guiding perspective. The participation of partners and beneficiaries is crucial to the project. The multi-sectoral approach included three scales: 1) Scale of commune and family that aims at behavioural change towards civil register, family planning, GBV, gender equality, health and social welfare services which all would increase the demand of services; 2) Scale of civil register and health and social welfare services to reinforce the supply, quality and accessibility while ensuring that the needs of populations are met; 3) Scale of national coordination with partners in order to align the policies and practices.