Total population: 6.9 millions Population growth: 2% annual … · Funding for PIEMA: US $ 2,180.000 Donor: Fund T. Turner Tallies: Ministries of health, education, agriculture and

MINISTERIO DE SALUD PÚBLICA Y ASISTENCIA SOCIAL

MINISTERIO DE SALUD PÚBLICA Y ASISTENCIA SOCIALwww.mspas.gob.sv

Total population: 6.9 millions

Population growth: 2% annual

Population density: 321 hab/km2

Adolescents: 1.4 mill (20.6%)



�Funding for PIEMA: US $ 2,180.000

�Donor: Fund T. Turner

�Tallies: Ministries of health, education, agriculture and NGO´s

�Direct beneficiaries:Adolescent girls between 10 and 19 years

� Indirect beneficiaries:Adolescent males, parents, leaders, technical personnel of the participant institutions

Interagency Program for the Empowerment of rural adolescents

girls in El Salvador (2003-2006)



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�Promotion and strengthened of adolescent girls and organizational processes at local level in PIEMA municipalities.

� Intersectorial tables strengthened that promote the participation and empowerment of adolescent girls: elaboration and execution of plans, qualification of physical spaces.

�Local institutions and community organizations strengthened in the prevention and attention of the gender violence: social campaigns, psychological attention, artistic days, informative material.

Expected results



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� 11 micro companies directed by 120 adolescent women whom work in the benefited municipalities, generating employment and improving the economic entrance: micro agricultural, cattle companies, bakery and agro industries.

� Organization and strengthened of adolescent girls in managerial skills.

� Design of the institutional strategy of the CENTA for the rural youth's attention with emphasis in the adolescent girls

Achievements





�13 integrated adolescentshealth units are in operation

�Training workshops for healthstaff in leadership and SRH: MSPAS, NGO´s, CENTA andmunicipalities offices.

�48,034 adolescents received integral attention in the differentiated Services of the Ministry of health.

� Informative, educational and audiovisual material in SRH reproduced and diffused.

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• Campaign of Information, Education and Communication in shrdiffused: Contest, radio novelizes, among others.

• Parents and adolescents qualified in Education in SRH.

• Adolescents qualified in Education in SRH.

1º PrizeUnidad Salud Apastepeque

2º prizeUnidad Salud SnPablo Tacachico3º prizeUnidad Salud Nejapa



Alejandro Huezo

Cantón el Anonal. Nejapa.

Of me part and on behalf of my partners I thank that they have benefitted to the community the Anonal, since we live adolescents and young that want to overcome us or to learn an occupation.

Ana Cecilia Mejía

Beneficiary adolescent

Hidroponic orchards

“It is important to learn on hidroponic orchards, since we learn how to sow, and the families of the communities obtain fresh and nutritious vegetables”

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Adolescentes beneficiados

Beneficiary adolescentBakery

Sara Vázquez



• The importance of the leadership on behalf of the Ministry of Health through the Unit of Adolescents on the topic of adolescents, that whom contribute to strengthen the answers to the necessities of health of this populational group.

• So that the initiatives like this are viable and of permanency in the long term should be looked for the Inclusion and commitment of the local Government and of the Government's institutions

• The feasibility of sharing funds among the participant agencies for the development of activities of promotion of the health

•The interagency effort is a complex exercise, however it has been a means to optimize the resources and to integrate the interventions and the impact.

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Total population: 6.9 millions Population growth: 2% annual … · Funding for PIEMA: US $ 2,180.000 Donor: Fund T. Turner Tallies: Ministries of health, education, agriculture and