SRHR Resource: Package for Traditional Leaders/Dikgosi in Botswana

The Comprehensive Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) Resource Package for Traditional Leaders/Dikgosi has been developed for Traditional Leaders/Dikgosi to support them with key messages to address SRHR and gender matters in their communities and support health care providers to increase the range and quality of services to meet the specific and diverse needs of communities. 

This package focuses specifically on the provision of such services integrated within clinical and non-clinical contexts and follows a gender-transformative approach. It covers all population segments in all their diversity with tailor made messages and takes a positive approach to SRHR, seeing this not just as the absence of disease, but the positive expression of one’s gender, sex and sexuality. In doing so, this service package contributes to efforts to ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) as prioritized in the Sustainable Development Goals. This package is intended to empower Traditional Leaders/Dikgosi as agent of change in their communities to promote sexual and reproductive health and rights of communities, especially for hard to reach and underserved population groups.