Oasis / Venture Strategies for Health and Development

Vshd, with partner, centre for girls education, continued support for five models of safe spaces programming for more than 4,500 girls in northern nigeria. Vshd, with partner lumiere des filles et des femmes, continued support of safe spaces for 996 in-school girls (aimed to delay early marriage by keeping girls in school) and 307 married adolescent girls (aimed to educate girls on life skills and access to family planning services) in maradi, niger. Vshd successfully completed landscape assessments on the availability of reproductive Health medicines using vshds availability framework in four countries and disseminated results at national and internation stakeholder meetings. Vshd launched a program in tchad to register a quality-assured misoprostol product and integrate it into the public Health care system in order to assist the government in reducing maternal mortality due to postpartum hemorrhage (currently the leading cause of maternal death). The tchad ministry of Health signed a formal implementation plan to initiate the program in three regions. Vshd supported grade africa in the implementation plan of two programs: population & Development education in three niger universities, (enrolling 104 students in four district courses and offering 27 scholarships), and a group prenatal care project in maradi, niger (reaching 840 pregnant mothers).vshd created the elles du sahel, a diverse group of 16 female activists from the sahel, the european union and united states to advocate at the regional and global level for increased attention to and funding for sexual and reproductive Health and rights, girls education, and gender based violence. Vshd, with partner jeunes voluntaire pour lenvironnement, worked to integrate family planning into climate adaptation plans in niger. Final draft plans are under review with the niger government.