Support to Reproductive Health Activities : Integrated Project in the Liptako-Gourma Region
Project / Program Summary

1. Objectives
   By the year 2000:
   
   1. To have sensitized 50% of the general population of the region and 60% of women of reproductive age on the existence and the use of RH services;
   2. To have constructed and equipped one maternity house in each of the 300 villages of the region;
   3. To have increased the number of primary health care centers from 16 to 80, and the number of reference hospitals providing quality RH services from 4 to 10;
   4. To have improved the economic access to RH services for 30% of the women of reproductive age through the improvement of their income.
2. Activities / contents
   • One person/village will be trained on IEC, RH and gender and will subsequently act as a village animator on those issues
   • maternity houses will be built in the target villages and employ local TBAs
   • community-based contraceptive distribution programme will be developed in 60 villages on a pilot basis
   • credit management training will be provided for the leaders of women's groups and associations in order to promote income-generating activities.
3. Expected outcomes / impacts
   • Easier access to and increased quantity and quality of RH services;
   • greater awareness among the general population and more specifically among the opinion, religious and traditional leaders on the delivery of RH services;
   • increased involvement of women in the socio-economic development of the region which will ultimately allow them to have better access to RH services.
4. Features in line with the Agenda for Action
   The project addresses population, health/RH and gender issues as well as capacity building needs.

UNFPA Office, Niger