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Lessons learned on programmatic collaboration between key populations: A case study of BUZA’s Bridging the Gaps – Health and rights for key populations global alliance

• Small Grants

The aim of this proposal was to conduct operational research on lessons learned regarding programmatic collaboration between organisations representing key populations with documentation and publication as output.

The power of confident young people: a comparative study of the effects of an edutainment approach to sexuality education for youth

• Small Grants

This project aimed to conduct a comparative study to investigate the added values of an entertainment-education and empowerment approach to sexuality education for youth in Tanzania.

Mobile for Mothers: Is a mobile application the way forward to improving safe motherhood? A quasi-experimental study in India

• Small Grants

Mobile for Mothers is a case management solution for Community Health Workers, Sahiyyas, in Jharkhand.

Understanding differentials in district performance in adolescent reproductive health service quality & coverage in Rwanda

• Small Grants

This project aimed to validate claims that Rwanda has made significant progress in health indicators, including sexual and reproductive health.

Assessing the impact of a novel research-based intervention to improve access to contraceptive choices among HIV-infected women from Western India.

• Small Grants

The primary aim of this proposal is to assess the impact of an existing research-based intervention designed to assist HIV-infected women and men to make more informed decisions regarding their sexual and reproductive health.

Exploring youth explicit media usage to improve the responsiveness of CSE programs in the Great Lakes Region

• Small Grants

This research project aimed to explore young people’s exposure to sexually explicit media in the African Great Lakes region and the extent to which it influences their sexual identity development. The findings were intended to create comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) programming that is better equipped to respond to the realities in their local contexts.

Influencing Body Politics: Women and girls in charge of their own sexual and reproductive health to fulfil their potential in society.

• Small Grants

In this project, Oxfam Novib conducted gender power analyses in a number of countries and tested several assumptions to inform and strengthen existing national SRHR lobby and advocacy efforts from a women’s rights perspective.

Involuntarily childlessness ‘ low cost’ IVF and fertility organisations in Ghana and Kenya: enhancing knowledge and awareness

• Small Grants

This project seeks to raise awareness about infertility and childlessness among stakeholders, particularly in resource-poor areas through multi-methods studies and dissemination activities, with a focus on understanding the potential impact of interventions.

Preventing postpartum haemorrhage: task shifting in the Active Management of the Third Stage of Labour

• Small Grants

This project aimed to compare the effectiveness of uterine tone assessment by midwives versus patient self-assessment in managing the third stage of labor.

Long term International partnership Department Obstetrics & Gynecology of the University of Gondar and affiliated health centres, Ethiopia and Dutch Working Party on International Safe Motherhood & Reproductive Health

• Small Grants

This project is the first step of a 3 year long partnership between the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (O&G) of the University of Gondar and affiliated health centres, Ethiopia (GU) and the Dutch Working Party on International Safe Motherhood & Reproductive Health (WP-ISMRH).

Developing a case-based model: mobilising corporate companies’ resources to ensure sustainability of youth-focused SRHR programs

• Small Grants

The aim of this project was to invigorate the youth sector by strengthening the capacity of civil society organisations working with youth in the field of SRHR in India through developing an effective and sustainable case-based model of mobilising local corporate resources.

Social Norms underpinning SRHR violations in Nigeria: Translating Research for use in Influencing Policy and Practice

• Small Grants

The aim is to translate the research on deepened understanding about social norms in Nigeria into materials useful for the ‘ENOUGH’ campaign, which Oxfam will co-create and implement with local partners including women and human rights organisations and youth movements.

Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice: a Participatory Process to Translate Research into Action

• Small Grants

This project worked to tailor the findings to the needs of each target audience (alliance partners, country partners, policymakers), to be able to effectively promote changes in policies and practice. The outcomes of the additional analysis of the country case studies will help us to translate the research into action plans and into products to be used by each of the target audiences, for improved collaboration and for evidence-based advocacy.

Capacity-strengthening for national-level policy change: Europe Unite for CSE rights

• Small Grants

The aim of this project was to advocate for the implementation of CSE programs in Eastern Europe by creating a supportive environment for CSE integration in national-level policies.

From research to practice: the value of five years of maternal health research collaboration in Ghana

• Small Grants

This project aimed to illustrate the value of research and research capacity building to improve maternal health in Ghana and to share and build support for the value of maternal health research in Ghana and the Netherlands.

CSE, teachers and formal and informal curricula: A qualitative analysis on the role of teachers in enhancing young women and men’s SRHR

• Small Grants

The project aims to gain a better understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of CSE programmes in the Global South, with a focus on the approach taken to address various forms of gender-based violence, including child marriage (Literature review on CSE); investigate the role of teachers and classroom practices in efforts to enhance young men and women’s SHRH, particularly in addressing child marriage in Ethiopia (Case Study in Ethiopia); disseminate knowledge to policymakers, practitioners and other stakeholders in Ethiopia and NL by organizing workshops; and strengthen the knowledge generation and dissemination capacity of DEC.

School-based sexuality education in Tanzania

• Small Grants

This paper reflects on the findings of a study that compared two secondary school-based sexuality education programmes: the Dance4Life sexuality education edutainment approach implemented by Restless Development, a non-governmental organisation (intervention), and an HIV prevention education approach implemented by the government (comparison), to understand into what extent a peer-led edutainment approach can be beneficial in increasing young people’s empowerment, as measured by knowledge, life skills and self-efficacy, ultimately contributing to improved sexual and reproductive health outcomes.

Jembatan Project: Towards Integrating Infertility in SRHR programming

• Small Grants

Developing a replicable model and practical tool for integrating infertility in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) plans and programmes. The aim was to upscale and improve interventions to address infertility by stimulating exchange and collaboration between infertility support groups and NGOs focusing on SRHR.

Generating debate and visualising change

• Small Grants

Assessing the uptake of three visualisation tools in change processes geared to improving young people’s SRHR.

Perspectives of Pregnant Asylum-Seeking Women on Implementation of a Screening Tool for Anxiety, Depression, and PTSD

• Small Grants

Exploring the factors that inhibit or contribute to the sustainability of school interventions on menstrual health (MH)

• Small Grants

This project focused on assessing the sustainability of school interventions within the Ritu program and disseminating the findings. Conducted by Dhaka University with support from Simavi and Bangladesh Nari Progati Sangha (BNPS), the study produced data that informed a report and a fact sheet created by Simavi. BNPS utilized these materials to develop a position paper and policy brief. These resources served as the foundation for an online event hosted by BNPS and a webinar by Simavi and Share-Net. They were also distributed through social media channels and the Menstrual Hygiene Hub newsletter.

Still Human

• Covid-19 Grants

This was an exploratory research project undertaken to assess the impact of COVID-19 on the lives of transgender and hijra people in the Netherlands and Bangladesh respectively. By focusing the research on livelihoods, access to health care, housing and violence at public and private spaces, the knowledge products aims to be used as a basis for advocacy for drawing attention to trans population across the world.

Treat it Queer

• Knowledge Activation Grants

This project works to translate research into products and materials that will be used to facilitate tangible change in policy or practice. Treat it Queer educates medical students and young doctors about queer inclusive health care provision, with a focus on SRHR in the Dutch context. For this project they created two tangible tools to better support and understand queer and gender queer people within medical environments.

A maternal mental health intervention for pregnant women in low-resource settings in Kenya

• Knowledge Activation Grants

A maternal mental health intervention for pregnant women in low-resource settings in Kenya. The study found a high need for mental health support among perinatal women in the study region, with more than one-third of screened women showing depressive symptoms. The pilot showed that integrating a contextualized group-based mental health intervention within routine antenatal care settings in primary healthcare was feasible. The policy brief provides several recommendations to policymakers, the community, and pregnant mothers in western Kenya to enhance their access to much-needed mental health support.

“Happy accident?” Couples’ reproductive decision-making and the role of gender, power and reproductive autonomy in the Netherlands.

• Small Grants

The objective of this study was to better understand couples’ reproductive decision-making processes in the Netherlands, with specific attention to the role of gender, power, and reproductive autonomy. The study aimed to create a tool that can assist couples in this decision-making process. To achieve this goal, the University of Groningen conducted dyadic in-depth interviews with 21 couples in the Netherlands.

Not Your Usual Subjects

• Knowledge Activation Grants

Not Your Usual Subjects brings you fresh and unheard youth voices and perspectives on the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on long-standing sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) issues through a six-part youth-led podcast series.

Campaign BLOOM (Buy-in and Learning through Outcomes of MYP): Cultivating Sustainable MYP

• Co-Creation Conference Grants

Multimedia campaign promoting meaningful youth participation. The campaign showcases how adults and youth can engage in mutually beneficial partnerships to leverage each group’s skills, knowledge and capacities to achieve broader impact in the field of Adolescent Sexual & Reproductive Health.

Let's Talk!

• Co-Creation Conference Grants

A co-created sexual reproductive health and rights card game by youth for youth, aimed at ages around 14-24. This knowledge product includes a facilitator's guide and the card game 'Let's Talk!'.

Brave Men

• Covid-19 Grants

The overall objective of this project was to initiate an online policy dialogue on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on gender-based violence involving Communities of Practices from Bangladesh, Burundi, Jordan, and the Netherlands.

Access Granted

• Covid-19 Grants

This mixed-method research project assesses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on access to contraception or safe abortion services for women of reproductive age in Iran, Bangladesh, and the Netherlands. The developed knowledge products aim to inform relevant stakeholders on improving access to contraception and safe abortion during crises.