Project Information

Project Title:
Improving the Outlook for Adolescent Girls (and Boys) in Mongolia

Objective/s/Goal:
The goal of the project is to contribute to improvements in the development and participation of Mongolia’s adolescents through the demonstration of sustainable and replicable multi-sectoral approaches in the provision of adolescent-friendly reproductive health services, reproductive health education in secondary schools, skills development, and information and outreach activities by adolescents for adolescents. It is intended that the pilot projects will be scaled up and replicated in other areas of the country.

Implementing Agency/s: UNFPA, UNICEF, WHO, UNESCO

Status on Project Activities

UNFPA has undertaken a study, the first of its kind, about the lives of young people. It also implemented a distance education programme entitled 'Parent and Child Communication on Sexuality' in cooperation with UNESCO. A book called Are You Listening? focuses on helping parents understand, and become more sensitive to the sexual and reproductive health of adolescents and explains how adolescents can communicate with their peers. Parents and teachers are now more comfortable discussing sexual and reproductive health with adolescents.

The quality of health services for adolescents have been improved with programmes designed by and for adolescents. Eight adolescent friendly clinics -- known as Future Threshold Adolescent Centers -- have been established in the capital and two provinces.

UNFPA is developing handbooks, pamphlets and posters on healthy relationships. It has also provided quality education materials on sexual health to be included in secondary school curricula.