What Are Some Ways “Our Bodies, Ourselves” Adaptations Have Reached Their Audience?

Through their publications and outreach, OBOS’s partners have reached millions of people with information on reproductive health, sexuality, and human rights, and given people the skills to translate this information into action. Global partners have also engaged power brokers — from men and family matriarchs, to religious leaders and government policymakers — to improve health services and health outcomes for women and girls.

Here are some examples of partners in action:

Nigeria: Women for Empowerment, Development and Gender Reform shared information adapted from “Our Bodies, Ourselves” into Yoruba and Pidgin English, using local canoe systems and village-wide peer-to-peer education.

Nepal: Women’s Rehabilitation Center worked with local allies to ensure reproductive rights remain constitutionally guaranteed, after securing these rights in the interim constitution.

Serbia: Women’s Health Promotion Center designed an intervention model for health providers across the nation to screen and respond to the needs of domestic violence survivors.

Israel: Women and Their Bodies built bridges between Arab and Jewish women who collaborated on Arabic and Hebrew adaptations of “Our Bodies, Ourselves.”

Turkey: Mavi Kalem reached more than 12,000 young women via campaigns that use a statement of women’s rights principles and a badge with the slogan “My Body is Mine.”

Each partner is an independent entity and, as such, is operationally unaffected by OBOS’s transition to a volunteer model. They continue to implement their own programs, in their own communities, based on their own vision and goals.