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Violence prevention
Community awareness helps identify and challenge gender-based violence.
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Breaking Barriers
Mobilizing a whole community around safety, health rights and gender equality.
LocationRukwa Region
PeriodCompleted project
StatusProject archive
About the project
Breaking Barriers worked to improve the health and rights of girls and women across Rukwa Region by reducing gender-based violence, expanding access to reproductive health services and increasing awareness of reproductive health rights. It brought together religious and traditional leaders, young women and men, government leaders and parents.
The opportunity
Lasting change requires the people who shape norms and services to act together.
Gender-based violence and barriers to reproductive health are sustained by social norms as well as service gaps. Breaking Barriers created shared responsibility across generations and institutions so that equality, safety and informed health decisions could become community priorities.
Project design
Connected action. Lasting change.
The project connects four mutually reinforcing areas to address the challenge as a whole.
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Health-service access
The project promotes access to reproductive health services for girls and women.
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Rights awareness
People gain clearer information about reproductive health rights and personal decision-making.
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Collective leadership
Diverse leaders, young people and parents work together toward safer communities.
How the project is delivered
Change grows through practical, locally grounded action.
Participants remain at the center of the process—building knowledge, services, skills and relationships that respond to the realities of their lives.
ParticipantsGirls, women, youth, parents and community leaders
DeliveryCommunity awareness, rights education and joint action
CollaborationReligious, traditional and government leaders and parents
Intended contribution
From support today to wider choices tomorrow.
Reported results are identified clearly; other statements describe the change the project is designed to support.
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Community groups increase awareness of gender-based violence.
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Girls and women receive stronger information about reproductive health rights and services.
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Religious, traditional and government leaders contribute to shared prevention efforts.
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Gender equality and community safety become visible priorities across stakeholder groups.
About this project information
View resources Project information is based on the PGWOCADE project brief supplied for publication. Outcome statements describe the project’s intended and reported contribution.
Connected program area
Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights
We work to support adolescents’ girls and young women exert their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), Including their rights to make informed decisions about their bodies and have access to friendly sexual and reproductive health services such as access to correct inform, HIV&AIDS, family planning, maternal health. Through strengthening national health systems, improving social norms and advocating for policies supportive of services and rights delivery.
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