Dona de Mim – Feminine World – ANEM Portugal

Name of the activity: Dona de Mim – Feminine World

Country/NMO: ANEM Portugal

Program: Maternal Health and Access to Safe Abortion

Contact information: contact [email protected] to get in touch with the Activity Coordinator

Type of the activity: First-time Activity

Category: Education

Focus area: Access to Safe Abortion, Obstetric Violence and Humanized Birth, Family Planning, Contraception and Sterilisation, Infertility, Pregnancy Complications and Postpartum Sequela

Sustainable Development Goals addressed: SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-Being), SDG 5 (Gender Equality)

General description:

The activity consists in organizing online sessions, lectures or lives, to create a space for debate on topics related to Women´s Health. The purpose of being online is to reach all women/girls form the most diverse age groups and geographic locations. To do this, we envite speakers that are experts in a specific subject or a witness.

Problem statement:

Lack of information among the population about their sexual and reproductive rights and the need to respect them;

Perpetuation of labor as an instrumented process, ignoring the wishes and rights of the people who are in this process;

Obstetric violence is a national reality and must be fought, respecting the autonomy of the individual during labor;

Lack of information for medical students about reproductive rights.

Target groups:

• General population
• Medical students
• Healthcare Students
• Doctors
• Other health professionals
• Youth
• Women

Beneficiaries:

• General population
• Medical students
• Healthcare Students
• Doctors
• Other health professionals
• Youth
• Women

Objectives:

Advocate for respect for the individual’s autonomy during labor, in order to combat obstetric violence; 

Increase the knowledge of medical students about ways to improve the sexual health of populations that they will serve;

To increase the knowledge of medical students about good practices in sexual and reproductive health, as they are important agents of change in the society in which they live.

Indicators:

Number of materials produced for medical students with the aim of disseminating knowledge and/or raising awareness of this issue;

Number of materials produced for civil society with the aim of disseminating knowledge and/or raising awareness of this issue;

Number of editions of this activity;

Number of individuals whatching the lectures/lives.

Methodology:

-1h 30/2h

-1 person for moderator, a few people for organizing the questions that the public make in an anonimous forms, rephrasing and seeing if it makes sense to ask

-Ig account or Zoom account of NEMAAC (Local representation of NMO- ANEM Portugal)

-environmentally friendly due to being online

Plans for evaluation:

Based on the indicators of sucess. Seeing if the activity grows after each edition.

External collaborations:

none