FLW’s Perspective Building
Frontline Workers (FLWs) are often the first point of contact for adolescents and young people seeking sexual and reproductive health services. However, silence and stigma around adolescent sexuality, fear of community backlash, and lack of clarity on what youth-friendly services look like often limit their response.
Our work with FLWs focuses on building a rights-based, youth-responsive perspective on SRHR. We work with grassroots functionaries across key government departments to strengthen their understanding of agency, consent, bodily autonomy, and dignity, and to build solidarities with girls, boys, and young people.
Capacity Building workshops
We conduct capacity-building workshops on SRHR and youth-friendly service delivery with grassroots functionaries of the Health Department and WCD department at block & district level.
These workshops use participatory methods, case discussions, and lived experiences to help FLWs reflect on gender norms, adolescent sexuality, abortion stigma, and respectful care. The focus is on moving beyond risk and control towards empathy, rights, and responsive services.
Visits
Exposure visits and field interactions are organised to deepen FLWs’ understanding of the everyday realities of adolescent girls and young women. By engaging directly with community spaces, collectives, and service settings, FLWs build empathy and practical insight into the barriers young people face while accessing SRHR services.
Dialogues
We facilitate regular interfaces between girls’, boys’, and young people’s groups and service providers to strengthen dialogue and reduce prejudice, hesitation, and discomfort.
Perspective-building meetings are also organised with Gram Panchayat leaders, encouraging local leadership to invest in and support improved and accessible SRH services within village
Health Camps
Health camps function as important collaborative spaces linking communities with the public health system. Initially organised independently, sustained networking and advocacy with the Health Department enabled camps to be conducted at the Community Health Centre (CHC), significantly strengthening their reach and legitimacy.
Through this collaboration, women attending the camps are registered as OPD patients and are able to access pregnancy-related care, support for gynaecological concerns, counselling, referrals, medicines, and further treatment within government hospitals.
Counselling services are integrated into the camps, recognising the close link between sexual and reproductive health, mental well-being, and lived realities. These camps also serve as key sites for perspective change among doctors and FLWs, encouraging more sensitive, respectful, and non-judgemental engagement with young women around sexuality, contraception, and abortion.
We Demand
Our work with girls, young people, frontline workers, and communities makes it clear that sexual and reproductive health cannot be reduced to services alone. We demand SRHR systems that recognise young people—especially girls—as rights-holders, with full agency over their bodies and decisions.
We call for stigma-free access to contraception, safe abortion, counselling, and sexual health care, delivered with dignity, confidentiality, and respect. This requires trained and accountable frontline workers, responsive public health systems, and community environments that challenge silence, shame, and patriarchal control over girls’ bodies.
Our demands are rooted in lived experiences, field practice, and research, and seek to place consent, autonomy, and justice at the centre of SRHR policies and everyday care.