Empowering Adolescent Girls through Comprehensive Sexuality Education and Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in Ghana

The Joint Programme for Improved Access to Comprehensive Sexuality Education and Rights-Based Quality Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in Ghana aims to empower adolescent girls, including the most-vulnerable, through provision of gender-responsive comprehensive sexuality education and youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health services, including family planning and contraception. 

Funded by Canada and implemented by UNFPA and UNICEF, the programme spans two years, 2018-2020. The two agencies will work in partnership with government, academia, the private sector, media and civil society organizations. Holistic, innovative approaches executed through existing national structures will promote national ownership and sustainability.

Special attention will be given to vulnerable girls such as migrant and refugee girls and those with disabilities. In addition to working to improve access to services, it aims to increase the capacities fo adolescent girls aged 10-19 to defend and promote their own sexual and reproductive rights, and to create a favorable environment for the realization of those rights.