To End Teenage Pregnancy and Abuse of Emergency Contraceptives

To begin with, during the reporting period under consideration, the project implementation team undertook a monitoring and evaluation exercise to  assess the progress of activities among the various school clubs establised and trained. Per the assessment, Fumbisi Junior High Model School and Kanjarga Junior High School (JHS) implementation of activities are progressing on very well. It is refreshing to note that these school clubs have been holding weekly activities within their respective schools to sensitize their peers on the dangers of teenage pregnancies and emergency contraceptives  on the life’s of teenagers. It is heart-warming to note that during the monitoring visits, the Fumbisi Junior High Model School reported there was a rape case and due  to the empowerment training they received by FOCEP under the P2Y program they reported the perpetrator to the police for arrest and subseqquently the perpetrator was taking to Court and he has since been incarcerated for the offence committed. This is so impartful and good news worthy of reporting and this has sent a very strong signal to all potential perpetrators as a deterrent measure to all.

Another important activity implemented by the project team during the period under review, is the facilitative role the  team played in the establishment of the Kanjarga Senior High School club. The school club members were sensitized on their collective functions and role of each executive leader they elected. The first session, club members received training on the following topics to enhance their effective operatinalization: group dynamics, conflict management, record keeping, minutes recording, procedures during club meetings and development of simplified constitution to regulate their operations. The second session of the club meeting focused on youth empowerment issues on teenage pregnancy prevention, negative implications of  emergency contraceptives, retention of grils in schools and reporting/referral mechanism of perpetrators of teenage pregnancies to the various social justiice institutions for appropriate actions.

Equally important activity that project implementation team executed successfully during the period under consideration is the  formation and establishment  of the Fumbisi Senior High/Agrich School club with total membership 0f 121 exceeding the planned target of 50 per the work plan. Per the strategy of the project team to build the capacities of the members of the club during the first session took members through the following principle of clubs such as group dynamics, record keeping, minutes records, elections of executive members, development of club constitutions, conflict management and resolution among others. It is also important to note that during the second session, the project implementation team trained the entire membership of the club on teenage pregnancy prevetion measures, negative implications of emergency contraceptives, high retention rate for young girls, referral path-ways and reporting systems of cases to the appropriate social justice institutions. The clubs were trained on how draw up action plans for implantion of their planned activities.

It is pertinent to note that, the project team was able to reach out to thousands of young people and community members through the community Radio program. With respect to the radio discussion a total number of  five (5) sessions has been organized with a total number of 5 people including 2 (2) young people participating in the sessions. It is remarkable to note that the Radio session has built the capacities of the panellist especially young people with their advocacy and communication skills. The following selected topics were discussed: Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) negative effects teenage pregnancy on young girls, negative effects of emergency contraceptives, negative effects of early marriages on young girls, negative effects teenage pregnancy on the young girls education and future develoments. It is worth noting that during the dicussions of the above topics a total number of 167 people phone-in to ask questions for clarifications and some phone-in calls made very positive constributions to enhance  communnity participation of the radio program.

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