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Youth Community Center “Somos”: recognition, inclusion and safe sexuality practices
Project
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Project start date
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Status
Ongoing
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Project end date
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Project duration
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3 years
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AFD financing amount
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494 700 €
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Global financing amount
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549 944 €
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Country and region
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Location
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Bogotá, Soacha, Barranquilla, Ipiales / Cundinamarca, Atlántico, Nariño
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Type of financing
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Beneficiaries
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Corporación Red Somos (RS)
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Type of beneficiary
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CSO
The Youth Community Center “Somos” is a model of care that integrates training, sexual and mental health care, access to HIV and other STI prevention strategies, and quality health services, in order to enable young people to freely exercise and demand their sexual and reproductive rights, reduce new HIV and other STI cases, and decrease stigma and discrimination against this population.
Description
The Youth Community Center “Somos” is a community model of care, support, and participation for young people, with an emphasis on LGBTIQ+ youth. The Center “Somos” offers a right-based and holistic approach including sexual and reproductive health, and mental health services, legal guidance, and social protection, integrating educational, cultural, and youth leadership processes.
This project is implemented in Bogotá, Soacha, Barranquilla, and Ipiales, coordinating popular-community education methodologies, combination HIV prevention, psychosocial support, and social and institutional advocacy actions. Through this project, Red Somos seeks to contribute to the construction of an inclusive environment free of stigma and discrimination, which promotes the comprehensive well-being and full exercise of rights of the youth in Colombia.
Partners
This project is being implemented with the support of strategic partners who strengthen the project’s impact on health, education, and youth participation. These partners include the Plataforma LGBTI por la Paz (LGBTI Platform for Peace), the Asociación Colombiana de Organizaciones de Base Comunitaria en Salud (Colombian Association of Community-Based Health Organizations), and LGBTIQ+ youth groups that provide technical, methodological, and procedural support in leadership and inclusion. In addition, through coordination with public institutions and entities, the project will have allies such as the health and social integration secretariats of Bogotá, Soacha, Barranquilla, and Ipiales, local mayors' offices, and the Ministry of Equality and Equity, ensuring intersectoral work, sustainability, and institutional recognition of the project.
Impacts
6000 young people in Bogotá, Soacha, Barranquilla, and Ipiales will benefit from tailored social protection and health services including HIV and SIT prevention, and mental health services.
Improving knowledge among young people aged 14 to 28, particularly LGBTIQ+ youth, about HIV and other STI prevention and their sexual and reproductive rights.
Differentiated care will be promoted to more than 2000 stakeholders in institutional, family, social, and educational settings.
Sustainable Development Goals
Partnerships for the Goals
Goal 17 promotes effective partnerships among governments, the private sector, and civil society that are essential to achieving the SDGs at global, regional, national, and local levels. These partnerships must be inclusive, built on shared principles and values, and place people and the planet at their core.
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