Adolescent and Sexual Reproductive Health
WOVOP works alongside adolescent girls and young women so they can understand their bodies, stay in school, and make informed choices about their health and their futures.
Adolescent girls and young women face real barriers to health, education, and safety. Across this thematic area, WOVOP combines sexual and reproductive health education, practical support, and community-led advocacy so that girls can stay in school, understand their rights, and shape their own futures.
Our work reaches from classrooms and informal settlements to county policy. We equip girls with knowledge and life skills, keep the most vulnerable in school, and strengthen the capacity of whole communities to identify and respond to their own health needs.
Because when you invest in a girl, you invest in her community. And when a community invests in its girls, everyone rises.
Community Health Needs Assessment
Women Volunteers for Peace believes in a different approach, one that equips communities to identify their own health challenges, design their own solutions, and build their own futures. With support from Global Health Action (GHA), we launched the Community Health Needs Assessment Program, shifting power from external actors to local communities and placing health decisions in the hands of the people they affect most.
In many communities across Kisumu County, the gap between health needs and health outcomes is not caused by a lack of resources alone. It is also caused by a lack of capacity, the skills, knowledge, and systems needed to identify health challenges and respond effectively. Health interventions designed without community input often miss the mark. This program addresses that gap directly.
The Community Health Needs Assessment strengthens health systems from the ground up by investing in local organized groups: women’s groups, youth networks, and community-based organizations. We believe that the people who know their communities best are best equipped to solve their communities’ health challenges. Our strategy is built on three interconnected pillars.
With the support of Global Health Action, WOVOP partners with communities across Kisumu County to build a future where health needs are identified by the people who experience them, solutions are designed by the people who will implement them, and the capacity to heal, advocate, and thrive remains firmly in the hands of the community.
Three interconnected pillars
- We train local leaders. Participants learn to gather and analyze health data, identify priority issues, understand root causes, design culturally appropriate interventions, and monitor their impact, with coaching from GHA.
- We move from assessment to impact. Every assessment leads to a concrete, practical call to action, owned by the communities themselves so it stays relevant, sustainable, and rooted in local realities.
- We build self-sufficiency. Trained groups go on to mentor and train other organizations in the health sector, multiplying the impact and spreading health assessment skills across the region.
Keep a girl in school
This work grows through partners, well-wishers, and volunteers who believe every girl deserves the chance to stay in school, stay healthy, and shape her own future.