The Reducing High Fertility Rates and Improving Sexual Reproductive Health Outcomes (RISE) programme (2017-2023) seeks to: increase access to age-appropriate sexual and reproductive health information and increase voluntary uptake of modern contraception. This helps to end preventable maternal deaths and reduce the negative health, social & economic consequences of high fertility on the individual, the family, and the community. It focuses on five outputs: (i) Increased awareness of the benefits of modern contraceptives among women, girls, men, and boys; (ii) Increased access to quality Family Planning (FP) services; (iii) Improved supply of FP commodities; (iv) Improved enabling environment to facilitate FP uptake, especially for adolescents and marginalised communities; and (v)Improved quality of data captured through the government routine reporting systems (DHIS2). By the end of 2023, the programme is expected to have contributed to a 5.7 percentage point increase in the modern contraceptive prevalence rate (mCPR), delivered 4.1 million Couple Years of Protection1 (CYPs) and averted 2.1 million unintended pregnancies. RISE is implemented by a consortium led by Marie Stopes Uganda (MSU). On the programme, RAHU contributes to Output 1 and Output 2 in the districts of Kagadi and Yumbe.
Several community dialogues have been held in all the seven districts
Awareness on the causes and implications of teenage pregnancy has been shared with the communities
Key stakeholders have made commitments to end teenage pregnancy.