SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH & RIGHTS PROGRAM

SERAC-Bangladesh believes that sexual and reproductive health and rights or SRHR is the concept of human rights applied to sexuality and reproduction. As a youth based organization, SERAC-Bangladesh opened this window of SRHR in 2010 and started working on youth and sexual and HIV/AIDS prevention awareness activities.

SERAC has worked with a number of global actors on this agenda, including the International Planned Parenthood Federation, Women Deliver, International Youth Alliance for Family Planning (IYAFP), Global Youth Coalition on AIDS/HIV (GYCA), Asian-Pacific Resource & Research Centre for Women (ARROW), Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition (RHSC), and Inroads global network.

Our main strategic focus is to build capacity of young people to engage and advocate with Government and CSOs as key actors in the implementation of sustainable development goals 3 & 5 to ensure health and gender equality in Bangladesh. SERAC-Bangladesh is also the host organization of the International Youth Alliance for Family Planning (IYAFP) in Bangladesh.

We are a pro-choice organization, and we support young people’s access to independent decision making over own body and health including safe abortion services with protection from stigma, and family planning methods & quality contraceptive commodities at affordable price.

Please visit our featured projects on SRHR, youth and SDGs listed below to learn more about what we are up to !

1. Can You Hear Me?- Raising the voices of young key populations in the post-2015 agenda.
2. ICPD to SDGs: Inclusive Advocacy for Sustainable Development
3. Busting Stigma to Ensure Safe Menstrual Regulation for Youth
4. Right Here Right Now 

In addition to that, SERAC-Bangladesh in partnership with IYAFP, initiated the first ever youth conference on family planning to create advocacy spaces for youth. Every year hundreds of youth leaders, policy and decision makers, and SRHR experts join this conference, to review commitments to ensure access to family planning information, services and commodities for youth in Bangladesh. For more details about the conference please check: BNYCFP