Our definition of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) follows the clearly defined components in the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development namely:

• Voluntary, informed, and affordable family planning services.
• Pre-natal care, safe motherhood services.
• Prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV and AIDS and cervical cancer.
• Prevention and treatment of violence against women and girls.
• Sexual health information, education, and counseling, to enhance personal relationships and quality of life.

We recognize the need to build skills and capacity on SRHR on multiple levels, including amongst policy-makers, other civil society organizations, individuals and the community at large, as well as amongst medical practitioners. Therefore, to deliver our work under this thematic area, we employ a multi-pronged approach:

• Expand access to and uptake of SRHR information and services through intensified behavior-change communication, CSE for adolescents, awareness raising and service delivery.
• Advocate for the implementation of existing SRHR policies and the introduction of SRHR-friendly policies for women and young people.
• Deliver trainings and mentorship to graduate and medical students, as well as other technical staff in the civil society and public sectors for improved delivery of SRHR information and services.

Within community health:  we focus on child nutrition, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, drug use prevention, disease prevention, Health insurance support, WASH and nutrition. Working within a holistic approach, we bridge our work on improving maternal health with improving child nutrition, given the strong interlinkages between the two areas. We also see overlapping areas with WASH and overall empowerment of communities, so we look into innovative ways to promoting access to improved WASH in order to improve child nutrition.

Our WASH programming requires a renewed approach that knowledge-dissemination interventions alone will not have the desired effect in improving WASH at a household level. Therefore, we look to develop partnerships that improve access to facilities in conjunction with awareness-raising work.

Mental health is a new intervention area for FAMILY FOCUS. Here, we seek to advocate for access to health care, as well as advocating for the prioritization of disease prevention within the Rwandan Ministry of Health. We also see a gap in knowledge, and we therefore promote community-based interventions to fill this gap.

In summary, our community health portfolios include:

• Employing a holistic approach in disseminating information and services on child nutrition to improve mother and child health;
• Addressing the intersection between WASH and nutrition through improved information-dissemination and behavior change communication interventions at the community level.
• Education on drug use prevention and their effects among youth.
• Fighting against malnutrition among families. 
• Education about communicable and non-communicable disease prevention.

• Providing our technical expertise in improving community health to service providers and policy-makers. 
• Raising awareness on nutritional diet among families, including the importance of kitchen garden and providing them with financial support.
• Improving livelihood and promoting basic education.  
• Conflict management in Families: We hope to do intensive mobilization on creating strong family bonds, counseling them how to manage family conflicts and have strong resilient sustainable families.