Ensure access to sexual and reproductive health and rights especially for the underserved in Albania
Commitment description:Despite the positive developments as regards health and education reform in Albania including Sexual Reproductive Health and Comprehensive Sexuality Education specific obstacles to the realization of the right to health and to sexual and reproductive health services by vulnerable groups persists throughout Albania.
Considering many factors and latest developments in country, since the approval of Law on Reproductive Health in 2002 including: new legal frameworks, demographic trends, technology and innovation, migration and emigration, evolving of the private health sector etc. this year Albanian Center for Population and Development in consultation with key stakeholders has started an advocacy campaign for improving this Law.
On the other hand, the organization has delivered a very extensive evidence-informed, rights-based and gender-sensitive sexuality education for children/young people in formal and informal settings. Approximately 1000 teachers and 1500 pupils are trained on healthy lifestyle education all over the country. ACPD and other NGOs have played an important role in advocating for sexuality education. Currently, the programme is implemented in public schools. Still Albania must ensure that CSE extends to children and young people based in non-formal or out of school settings including young people on the margins.
That's why Albanian Center for Population and Development commits by 2025 to:
1) Influence the Ministry of Health and Social Protection for improving the Law on Reproductive Health (2002) in order to ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, especially for the Underserved.
2) Deliver Comprehensive Sexuality Education among 50,000 young people in and out of school, all over Albania through informal education including innovative and digital approaches.
Modes of engagement:
- Change or creation of legislationWe will influence the Ministry of Health and Social Protection for improving the Law on Reproductive Health (2002) in order to ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, especially for the Underserved.
- Programmatic actionWe will deliver Comprehensive Sexuality Education among 50,000 young people in and out of school, all over Albania through informal education including innovative and digital approaches.
Achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health as a part of universal health coverage (UHC)(3) Zero preventable maternal deaths and maternal morbidities, such as obstetric fistulas, by, inter alia, integrating a comprehensive package of sexual and reproductive health interventions, including access to safe abortion to the full extent of the law, measures for preventing and avoiding unsafe abortions, and for the provision of post-abortion care, into national UHC strategies, policies and programmes, and to protect and ensure all individuals’ right to bodily integrity, autonomy and reproductive rights, and to provide access to essential services in support of these rights.
