Cross-cutting Evaluation – Marginalized populations, Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe

This overview document presents the results of the cross-cutting evaluation of seven projects funded by L’Initiative on the theme “marginalized populations”, which was implemented in sixteen countries in Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe.

Given the importance of taking into account the specific needs of marginalized populations, their human rights, gender and community approaches to tackling barriers to accessing care that affect these populations, L’Initiative launched a 2016 call for projects aimed at “improving access of marginalized populations to quality health services through adapted and integrated community approaches”. The main target populations  were:

• Vulnerable populations, especially mobile and migrant populations, young girls and women, children  and adolescents.
• Key populations, including people living with HIV, people who inject drugs, men who have sex with men, transgender people, sex workers and people in  prisons.