Reproductive Health & Family Planning

Improve access to care and health seeking behaviour for mother and child in low resource settings by building capacities of frontline healthcare workers to manage Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) programs through digital learning solutions.

Key projects:
  1. Empower supported Paramount Products (a garment export manufacturer from India) under its CSR initiative, Project Mukta, for building capacities of rural female factory workers across Delhi/ NCR region. It focused on gender-based violence, gender equality and sexual health and reproductive rights (SRHR) through digital training and workshops

    2. We, at Empower helped Paramount Products with the following:

    • Developed eLearning materials on topics including Violence against women and sexual harassment; Menstrual hygiene and health; Anti-natal care (ANC) and Post-natal care (PNC); Family planning and various methods of contraception/birth control; and Safe Abortion counselling and techniques
    • Delivered virtual training and capacity building workshops to the healthcare staff at the factory level on building knowledge around the area of SRHR
    • Trained healthcare staff to become ‘SRHR Champions’, so that they can share knowledge and further train female factory workers at the rural level on overall SRHR issues

    The primary aim was to empower women towards a more fulfilling life through workplace-based interventions on health, financial inclusion, and gender equality. This initiative also brought gender parity and opened doors for economic opportunities for women workers by ensuring sustainability in the system as well as society.

  2. Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone Africa: Maternal and Child Health Program under the Medicines, Technologies, and Pharmaceutical Services (MTaPS), funded by USAID

    3. Africa has some of the lowest contraceptive prevalence rates and highest maternal mortality. Empower under the MTaPS program is building capacities of frontline healthcare workers on Pharmaceutical System and the importance in improving the MNCH indicators like preventing deaths, and the number of diseases in the population.

    Empower has designed and developed eLearning courses for multiple countries to tackle MNCH program issues. These courses were designed to increase capacity, skill, and understanding of various frontline healthcare workers and eventually reduce MNCH mortality rates. These courses were adapted for each country in their official language and with the help of information shared by their ministries of health.