Non-Government Partner
SERAC-Bangladesh
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SERAC-Bangladesh, established in 1991, is a youth-led development organization which carries at its core non-profit, nongovernment, and nonpolitical qualities.
SERAC-Bangladesh started out with a group of educated, dedicated social workers with an aim to promote the socio-economic and social status and living standards of the poor and vulnerable communities, especially youth, women and children. SERAC-Bangladesh offers diverse services, including capacity building, awareness-raising, group formation and intervening with felt need-based problem-solving programs through the adoption of innovative ideas and strategic communication. SERAC-Bangladesh believes in non-directive, bottom-up, participatory, and integrated development frameworks and acts as a catalyst with its beneficiaries.
Commitments made to:
Vision
By 2025, through SERAC-Bangladesh‘s FP2030 commitment, at least 5,000 adolescents and youth representatives will directly received essential knowledge and information around FP and SRHR to support inclusive implementation of the national adolescent health strategy.
SERAC-Bangladesh Commitment Narratives
- By 2022, at least 2 volunteers (one male, one female) aged between 18-25 are trained and recruited with a monthly subsistence allowance to ensure meaningful participation of youth in providing friendly FP/SRHR services to adolescents and youth at the AFHCs in Bangladesh.
- By 2025, at least 20 youth organizations that are actively working in FP/SRHR, included in the adolescent- friendly health corner’s management committee to actively take part in the local level decision-making on their needs around Sexual Reproductive Health services, and support in designing program delivery mechanisms to address the demands of youth.
- By 2022, advocacy initiated to introduce youth engagement strategy for services including but not limited to adolescent SRH services and counseling, antenatal care, pregnancy and delivery process, and immunization.
- By 2025, young people aged between 15-30 living in 4 districts including Dhaka, Naraynaganj, Mymensingh and Netrokona will be able to access contraceptives and FP/SRH commodities through a digital delivery and unmet need tracking mechanism with a GPS facility that will include outreach and wider coverage beyond the physical SHR/FP facility in Bangladesh.
- By 2030, advocacy initiated to ensure adolescents and youth unmet needs-focused FP promotional and outreach programs to cover urban and rural youths with age/geography specific actions both online and offline.
- By 2030, advocacy will be initiated to include married adolescents and youth directly in the SRH/FP service delivery monitoring process in both government and non-government facilities and programs.
- By 2030, SERAC will advocate to ensure that the government takes effective and inclusive measures including the eradication of taboos related to FP/SRHR to ensure equal access to RH commodities, and services for all youth including the transgender population, and physically challenged persons.
- By 2030, SERAC will work with the DGFP and the stakeholders to ensure FP/SRHR
information services for integrating into the community clinics at the ward level across the country.
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