Civil Society perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights and Justice in Latin America and the Caribbean.
In commemoration of the 10th Anniversary of the Montevideo Consensus (MC), Fòs Feminista supported 20 CSOs in the creation of national reports that document the progress, gaps, challenges, and best practices in delivering SRHRJ commitments for women, girls and gender-diverse individuals and their different intersections. Moreover, Fòs supported five regional networks led by Afro-descendants, young people, women with disabilities, indigenous women, and transgender people.
Fòs identified five priority topics within SRHRJ: 1) Abortion, 2) Comprehensive Sexuality education, 3) Gender-Based Violence, 4) Family Planning and Contraception and 5) Youth-Friendly Services. A report is available for each of these priority topics and a sixth report highlights the specific challenges faced by Systematically Excluded Communities (SEC) in the region. The report on SEC can be accessed by those seeking a more detailed analysis of the SRHRJ issues faced by SEC, than those outlined in this report. The analysis of each priority topic couers six major areas of assessment: 1) Legal Framework, 2) Financial Framework, 3) Programmatic Framework, 4) Territorial Inequalities, 5) Civil Society participation, and 6) Data Access, Generation and Quality. Each priority topic includes sections for Recommendations and the identification of Best Practices, from both CSOs and national governments. Designed to be adaptable, the framework recognizes the expertise of participating networks and the limitation of publicly available information. This flexibility allowed these networks to identify other priority issues and undertake political analyses tailored to the specific contexts they addressed.
MQTM's scores for GBV focus on compliance in terms of the prouision of specialized care foruictims of GBV and assesses legal and operational frameworks for health services for victims and survivors, institutional coordination between health and justice systems, and available resources.
The average compliance score for GBV increased by a noteworthy 11%, rising from 57% in 2017 to 68% in 2023 across the 24 countries monitored by MQTM. This marks the most substantial improvement among the 13 themes monitored by MQTM. This improvement is attributed to enhanced coordination systems, effective referral of cases to specialized services by the ministries of health, and protocol improvements facilitating processes for accessing care.
This flexibility allowed these networks to identify other priority issues and undertake political analyses tailored to the specific contexts they addressed.