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Hopechild, Inc

Our Solution for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR)

We advance sexual and reproductive health and rights through an integrated, rights-based, and gender-transformative approach that places dignity, choice, and bodily autonomy at the center of development and humanitarian programming. Our work goes beyond service delivery to address the social, legal, and systemic barriers that prevent individuals especially women, girls, and marginalized populations from exercising their rights.

We expand access to comprehensive SRHR information and services through community-based delivery models, mobile outreach, and partnerships with public and private health providers. Our interventions include family planning counseling and referrals, antenatal and postnatal care linkages, HIV and STI prevention and testing, cervical cancer awareness, and post-rape care. Services are delivered in ways that are confidential, culturally appropriate, and responsive to the needs of adolescents, persons with disabilities, and displaced populations.

 

Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) is a cornerstone of our approach. We deliver age-appropriate, evidence-based CSE in schools and community settings, equipping adolescents and young people with knowledge on consent, contraception, healthy relationships, and gender equality. Peer educators and youth leaders play a central role in facilitating dialogue, reducing stigma, and extending reach.

HopeChild, Inc. integrates SRHR with GBV prevention and response, ensuring survivors of sexual violence can access timely medical care, psychosocial support, and legal referrals. We strengthen referral pathways between health facilities, protection actors, and justice systems to ensure continuity of care and accountability.

 

We actively engage men and boys to promote positive masculinity, shared responsibility for reproductive health, and support for women’s autonomy. Community dialogues with parents, elders, and religious leaders address harmful norms while fostering local ownership and sustainability.

Systems strengthening is central to our SRHR work. We build the capacity of frontline health workers to deliver youth-friendly, rights-based care and support community health structures to improve outreach, data collection, and accountability. We support grievance redress mechanisms and community feedback systems, ensuring services are responsive and respectful.

 

In humanitarian and fragile contexts, HopeChild, Inc. aligns its interventions with the Minimum Initial Service Package (MISP) for reproductive health, ensuring continuity of care during crises. By integrating SRHR with education, livelihoods, social protection, and humanitarian response, we enable individuals and communities to exercise their rights, improve health outcomes, and break intergenerational cycles of inequality.

2030 Reach Target

In Zambia, deeply entrenched social and cultural norms often normalise violence against women and girls and even make it a legitimate and acceptable practice. These traditions are handed down from generation to generation, with older women teaching younger girls that they are inferior to men and must tolerate all kinds of violence and abuse at the hands of their husbands.

But now, things are starting to change. Plan International is working with traditional initiators in the country, whose role is to guide girls into womanhood. Chabala Siame, a community development facilitator for the organisation, explains that the women who conduct the initiation ceremonies are receiving training to learn how they can continue preparing girls to be women without putting them at risk.

“The traditional initiators received training by Plan International on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Their role is to support girls into adulthood, and later into marriage. Since the training, they have changed their curriculum and now include boys in the process,” Chabala says
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150,000 women, girls, and young people reached with integrated SRHR information, services, and rights-based support by 2030.