Family Planning and Awareness II (ANIMAS II)

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The overarching development policy objective of the FC measure is to improve the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of the Nigerien population by preventing unplanned pregnancies and increasing birth intervals, as well as reducing sexually transmitted infections, particularly HIV. The HIV component of the program is aimed at HIV risk groups such as long-distance truck drivers or prostitutes and, as part of this project, also at migrants. The FC project is being implemented through the local social marketing agency ANIMAS-SUTURA, which has established itself in recent years as a dynamic and reliable implementing organization for social marketing projects on family planning and HIV prevention and was supported with FC funds. The project measures include the following elements (1) an increased focus of cooperation on young people, especially in primary and secondary schools, (2) a focus on migrants and host communities, (3) measures to encourage longer school attendance for girls, (4) the continuation of activities in existing project regions Tillabéry, Maradi, Agadez and Tahoua and (5) the further institutional and financial consolidation of ANIMAS-SUTURA. This is intended to achieve the FC measure objective of increased use of condoms and modern contraceptives as well as an observable change in behavior of the target groups with regard to self-determined family planning, HIV-AIDS prevention and child marriages. The target group of the project is primarily the population of reproductive age (15-49 years) with a focus on migrants and adolescent girls and schoolgirls. The FC project has a volume of EUR 10.0 million and is scheduled to extend over three and a half years from mid-2021 to the end of 2024. The new project builds on the ongoing Family Planning and Awareness Raising Project Phase 1 (2017 68 142).