Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) Needs Assessment and Gender Analysis

Description of Project:

The Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) Needs Assessment and Gender Analysis will entail both desk review and primary research in Nyaung U, Mandalay Region. In consultation with adolescent boys and girls, young men and women, their parents or caregivers, duty bearers (local decision-makers, service providers, other influential community members) and other stakeholders, the assessment will focus on identifying strategies to create an enabling environment where adolescents and young people feel empowered and have self-esteem to raise their voices which matter on their sexuality and reproductive health in the relationships. It will assess the social environment regarding gender equality and recognition of the value of girls in the target area with an aim of shifting norms and power relations and attaining a more equal allocation of resources towards girls at the end of the program.

Description of Actual Services Provided:

• Write up plan of action/inception phase to understand the exact requirements of the client and reviewing the existing literature on the project;

• Draft KIIs and FGD questions, as well as the short quantitative survey;

• Recruit and provide trainings to enumerators;

• Collect field data and carry out data analysis;

• Held a debrief meeting with the project team following the completion of data collection to discuss preliminary findings;

• Submitted a final evaluation report including an executive summary detailing key findings including achievements against indicators, lessons learned and recommendations.