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Ongoing projects

Ongoing projects

Running projectsOngoing projects of BFPA  

The programme portfolio of BFPA for 2021 includes various and interesting projects mainly targeting the strategic drivers that are a priority both for BFPA and IPPF:
- advocacy for the rights of vulnerable groups, international development (ODA) and social campaigns
- improving the access to quality health care services in the field of SRHR and prevention of HIV/AIDS and STI
- work with adolescents, health and sexuality education
-  resources mobilization and sustainability
BFPA in its role of expert and innovator is enlarging its target groups and is a role model and expert for many national and international institutions. Here are enumerated the most relevant projects of the association, in process of implementation at the beginning of 2021. We are certain that there will be more added within this year. We are presenting the projects with the funding institutions and their duration:

 DonorProject name and duration
 MSD pharmaceuticals Youth voices youth choices – health literacy and capacity building for young people in the field of SRHR in pandemics and other emergency situations 2021 - 2023 
 Erasmus+ program of EURoma HEALTH Care II – Promotion of the health literacy of Roma by trained health mediators and the establishment of Community Health Education Centres - in partnership with municipalities and other organizations, leading Jugendstil Germany 2021-2023 
 Erasmus+ program of EU ARIE – a EU collaborative partnership for active lifestyles for the adherence to the HIV therapy and to promote fitness as therapy, 2020 - 2022
Active Citizens fund, Small Grant scheme  Capacity building for the team, partners and supporters of BFPA in the field of advocacy for SRHR, 2020 – 2021
OSI, Regional office for Europe   LYRA – Loading Young Roma advocates,
2020 – 2023
OAK foundation„The ability to change” – Learning Action Partnership for prevention of sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of children and adolescents, 2019-2022
ViiV Healthcare "I WANT TO KNOW" – User friendly access to HIV and STI counseling and testing for Roma youth from vulnerable communities, 2019 - 2021
MSD for Mothers "My body, my rights" – local resources mobilization, sustainable partnerships and family planning for young women from marginalized communities in Bulgaria, Serbia and Romania 2018 – 2021
 IPPF, self-fundingImproving the access to quality health care services in the field of SRHR,  prevention of HIV/AIDS and STI. Centers offering high quality health and info services in Sofia, Stara Zagora, Varna, Ruse, Pleven 2017 - ongoing
 IPPF, municipalitiesWork with adolescents, health and sexuality education with focus on young people in institutions and from vulnerable groups  2017-ongoing
 IPPF, self-fundingAdvocacy for the rights of vulnerable groups, international development (ODA) and social campaigns  2017 - ongoing
 IPPF, membership feesResMob – resource mobilization and sustainability of BFPA 2017- ongoing
 BCNL, SexwellCondom with a cause, marketing fundraising campaign, 2016 - ongoing

 
 

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BFPA starts working on a new project – ARIE - supported by the ERASMUS+ program

Sofia, March 2021

The Bulgarian Family Planning and Sexual Health Association (BFPA) is a partner in the first European project that encourages People Living with HIV (PLHIV) to implement regularly a system of aerobic exercises. The project was supposed to start in the beginning of 2020 but the Covid-19 pandemic postponed the start with one year. So ARIE will be implemented in 2021 and 2022, coordinated by ANLAIDS Lombardia  - an organization that was a partner of the Association under other projects  - for HIV  prevention, for creating an online informational system for Hepatitis B and C and for cervical cancer prevention. We are partners from  6 countries (Italy, Bulgaria, Greece, Lithuania, Romania and Slovenia), 7 organizations and over 30 experts. ARIE is an ambitious project to encourage participation in sports and physical activity of people living with the HIV infection and are on therapy, in line with EU recommendations and guidelines on physical activity.
The project intends to promote physical activity in the form of personalized paths, among people aged between 18 and 50 who live with HIV infection and who are under treatment, offering an innovative fitness protocol, and in order to involve them in moderate physical activity. Therefore, the project through the development of the protocol aims to promote voluntary activities in sport, together with awareness of the importance of physical activity for the benefit of health through greater participation in sport for all.
 
Online Meeting of LAP in Seeking Different Approaches to Work with Young People

Sofia, February 24, 2021

Another online meeting of Learning Action Partnership (LAP) took place on February 24th, 2021. The participants – guest colleagues from Center for Study of Democracy (CSD); representatives of BFPA, Know How Center for Alternative Care of NBU, BYRC, SAPI, Re-Act Association, ASC Foundation, NNHM and IOM – reviewed the progress of implementation of the so called ‘small projects’ in the frame of LAP. The short video representing the work of LAP was discussed and approved for use.
The special guests of the online meeting presented the campaign ‘Find Another Way’, directed against radical messages and actions of young people in internet. Safe Internet Center and Center for Study of Democracy, worked on the initiative for three years, presented results and conclusions from their online communicational campaign.
The main target groups of the project were young people 14-19 in Bulgaria. Their main goal – prevention of violence, connected with the extreme-right messages and reducing the vulnerability of young people towards extreme-right messages and propaganda. From CSD strived to work for reducing anti-minority attitudes and messages and violence against minority groups, they tried to present other, different points of view and to involve young people in constructive alternative causes via narratives for stimulating critical thinking and identifying fake messages.
 
A new project “Youth Voices, Youth Choices” of the Bulgarian Association for Family Planning and Sexual Health has been launched

Sofia, February 8-10, 2021

The first online meeting of the project “Youth Voices, Youth Choices” was held on February 8-10, 2021. The project "Youth Voices, Youth Choices" (2021-2023) is a 30-month international project implemented in Bulgaria by the Bulgarian Family Planning and Sexual Health Association (BFPA). Partner organizations from Albania, BiH, Kosovo and Northern Macedonia will implement similar initiatives in their countries. The project is implemented with the coordinative role of the International Planned Parenthood Federation with the support of the programme for socially responsible business of the company MSD and aims to create more accessible and youth-friendly SRH services and information, paying special attention to the most vulnerable groups.
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