Disability Program - Fiji
Summary
Timeframe |
2015 to date |
Partners |
Reproductive and Family Health Association of Fiji |
Teachers and Participants Trained |
857 teachers, volunteers and school children trained about disability rights and social inclusion |
Aim
- Build the capacity of Reproductive and Family Health Association of Fiji staff to deliver comprehensive sexuality education to people with sensory, physical and intellectual impairments
- Support Reproductive and Family Health Association of Fiji to become a disability-inclusive service.
Progress
- 17 staff and volunteers from the Reproductive and Family Health Association of Fiji trained to enable them to create a disability inclusive clinical and educational organisation.
- Working alongside the Ministry of Education Curriculum Unit a national curriculum on sexual and reproductive health and rights for students with disability was designed and professional education was conducted for 72 teachers.
- 768 students at Special Schools have received training on the curriculum
- Midline evaluation completed
- Reproductive and Family Health Association of Fiji established and strengthened partnerships with Pacific Disability Forum, Disabled Persons Organisations, and schools in each Division.
In 2018/19, the project aims to
- deliver comprehensive sexuality education to students with disability in seven special schools
- provide 200 people with disability in reproductive and sexual health and rights information
- continue to work in partnership with Disabled Persons Organisations in rural communities to deliver education programs to special schools
- complete final project evaluation
