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Naguru Teenage Health & Info Centre 2015-2020 - Naguru Teenage Information & Health Centre 2015-20

Naguru Teenage Information and Health Center (NTIHC) has applied to Sweden for funding of 38.2 MSEK to implement its 2015-2020 Strategic Plan. NTIHC will not forward funds to third parties. The intervention aims at increasing the understanding of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) rights and access to appropriate youth-friendly services for young people through three strategic objectives: 1) Best practice: To provide excellent youth friendly SRH services at Kiswa health center and in the surrounding community, and share best practices with practitioners by providing them with practical learning opportunities. 2) Scale up: To expand and improve youth friendly SRH services in selected public health facilities by providing material and technical support. 3) Promote ASRHR: To increase awareness, understanding and acceptance of young people’s SRH rights and advocate for a more enabling environment for ASRHR. The intervention’s total budget is 45.5 MSEK, out of which 7.3 MSEK will be funded by Ministry of Health, KCCA, Uganda Red Cross Society through UNFPA, AIDS Information Center and CHAU. NTIHC has requested Sweden to fund the remaining MSEK 38.2. Sweden has also provided support to NTIHC’s current five year Strategic Plan (2011/2012 – 2015/2016) for the period 2011-2014, with a cost extension to June 2015.

The thematic focus for the contribution is sexual and reproductive health and rights for young people. The intended outcome is an increased understanding of sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) and access to appropriate youth-friendly services for young people in Uganda. The overall goal of Naguru Teenage Information & Health Centre (NTIHC) program is to increase undertsanding of Sexual and Reproductive Healthand Rights (SRHR) and access to appropriate youth friendly services for young people. This goal is to be achived through 3 specific objectives: Objective 1: To provide excellent youth friendly SRH services at Kiswa Health Centre and in teh surrounding comunity, and share best practices with practitioners by providing them with practical learning opportunities. Under this objective, NTIHC positions itself as a best practice centre for Adolsocent Sexual & Reproductive Health & Right (ASRHR) services in UGanda and the region. Objective 2: To expand and improve youth friendly SRH services in selected public health facilities by providing material an dtechnical support. This objective focus on scaling up ASRHR services beyond Kampala. Objective 3: Promote ASRHR. To increase awareness, undertsanding and acceptance of young people's SRH rights and advocate for a more enabling environment for ASRH services. Objective 3 is central for increasing knowledge and awareness of SRHR, empowering young people to demand fro better services as well as holding duty bearers accountable for delivery of quality services and to promote/protecting SRHR of young people in Uganda. 

Project ID

SE-0-SE-6-5118009502-UGA-13020

Activity status

2 - Implementation

Aid type

B01 - Core support to NGOs, other private bodies, PPPs and research institutes

% to Uganda

100.00

Organisations

Implementing

Developing country-based NGO

Funding

Sweden

Extending

Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

Accountable

NAGURU TEENAGE INFORMATION AND

CRS code	%
Reproductive health care (13020)	100.0