Share-Net International’s Impact Report 2013-2019
Posted by Nicole Moran on December 17, 2020 at 11:43 am
Executive Summary
Over the past seven years, Share-Net International (SNI) has been playing a major role as a
sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) knowledge platform, providing innovative and
creative solutions to help SRHR practitioners, policymakers and researchers generate, share
and translate knowledge on a wide range of sensitive and neglected SRHR topics. It also creates
opportunities for its members to promote the use of knowledge systematically through its
networking activities.
While SNI and its country hubs have achieved various milestones since establishing the platform
(both online and offline), such as engaging SRHR practitioners globally through the Co-Creation
Conference, translating knowledge using the Share-Net International Rapid Improvement
Model, and involving young people through different activities, lessons have been learned
that can be beneficial for the knowledge platform to enhance its operations in the future. SNI,
therefore, aims to present these achievements and reflect on the lessons learned from the
last seven years in this report for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) in the Netherlands
and SNI members.
This report highlights the growing efforts of SNI and its country hubs to ensure that evidence informed
policies and practices on SRHR are developed, shared and promoted through meaningful participation of international and local SRHR practitioners. This report also discusses the experience of working with NWO-WOTRO and its research projects, and how it facilitated the knowledge agenda commissioned by the MoFA. It collects the perceptions and experiences of SNI and the members of its country hubs by interviewing them and organising focus group discussions. The continuous collaboration to address various SRHR issues by SNI and its country hubs has resulted in a trusted knowledge platform where SRHR practitioners have the opportunity to generate and translate innovative knowledge products. Furthermore, this report highlights that SNI’s tireless efforts to ensure that the four country hubs operate in their respective countries resulted in vibrant SRHR Communities of Practice in Bangladesh,
Burundi, Jordan and the Netherlands. While the achievements have enabled SNI and its country hubs to expand their knowledge activities, the lessons learned focus on further improvement. Drawing on these lessons learned, SNI and its country hubs aim to continue to achieve the desired impact, which is evidence-informed policies and practices contributing to improved Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights.
Read the report here
