Baseline Study For the My Body My Future 2 Project

Plan International Zimbabwe, supported by Plan International Finland and in partnership with the National Council of Disabled Persons of Zimbabwe (NCDPZ), Sexual Rights Centre (SRC) and Intwasa Arts Festival is implementing the My Body My Future project in Bulawayo and Kwekwe districts of Zimbabwe. Bulawayo and Kwekwe were selected as target districts because they are considered among the “hotspot” districts with some of the poorest SRHR outcomes in Zimbabwe, including high rates of new HIV infections, and a complex set of socio-economic characteristics that expose young people to high levels of risk.

My Body My Future will strengthen support systems in SRHR information and in livelihoods support that assist girls’ confidence to make informed choices, will improve access to youth friendly SRHR information, services and comprehensive sexuality education, and advocate for SRHR policies that promote gender equality and inclusion. NCDPZ will include the voices of their members for powerful advocacy on inclusion and strengthen their own capacity to address SRHR. SRC will improve the appropriateness of services for key populations drawing on their experience with LGBTIQ+ youth, adolescents and young persons engaged in sex work, adolescents and young persons involved in artisanal mining. NCDPZ will ensure that adolescent girls and boys with disability are reached through utilisation of an accustomed NCDPZ Positive cycles of engagement and change model.

Intwasa Arts Festival Trust is an arts and culture civic society organization based in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. The CSO seeks to create arts and culture space, which celebrates inclusion, diversity, and participation in social norms matters, in all its forms, particularly marginalized cultures and groups. In MBMF project it harnesses on creating fun, exciting, and educative media platforms for SRHR awareness, advocacy and in the process capacitating young people with media skills and knowledge. It further strengthens young people and community engagements using arts as a tool for influencing and social change with a bias to freedom of expression, association, and participation.