Project Details


WSIS Prizes Contest 2019 Nominee

E-Family Planning: Improving Quality & Access through Community Radio


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Description

Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) are basic human rights, and all people have to have the right for equal access to SRH education and services through ICT Applications: e-health. Nowadays the services are available online- Facebook, Facebook live, YouTube, Cell Phone SMS; and offline courtyard meeting, house visit etc.

The issue of SRHR in Bangladesh still remains sensitive to discuss openly, particularly among the adolescents despite its importance in their life; especially at this delicate stage. In Bangladesh, adolescents represent more than one-fourth of the total population.

Many young people in Bangladesh do not have access to adequate information about their SRHR because of strong social and cultural taboos around the issue which causes a pervasive silence. The current national school curriculum contains only minimum information about SRHR and often teachers are incapable & reluctant even, to teach the issues in the classrooms. It leaves a vacuum for the young people especially the adolescents to access fact information on SRHR.

As a result, most adolescents enter into unsafe relationships, marriage, and pregnancy without any adequate preparation. Entering suddenly into such crucial life events, they even do not have access to the obvious necessary SRH information to manage such situations and ask for services as needed.

Project website

https://bnnrc.net/improving-quality-access/


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C7. E-health 2019
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Global digital compact (GDC) objectives related to this project None

Coverage
  • Bangladesh

Status

Completed

Start date

2018

End date

2018


Target beneficiary group(s)
  • Youth
  • Women
  • The poor

Replicability

All over the country! offline and online


Sustainability

Though it is offline and online, it could implement at the rural level.


WSIS values promotion

According to WSIS value, the project is contributing in the areas of Knowledge creation, knowledge utilization, knowledge preservation, and knowledge dissemination


Entity name

Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC)

Entity country—type

Bangladesh Civil Society

Entity website

https://bnnrc.net

Partners

There are nine Community Radio Stations in rural Bangladesh.