Sammendrag
My component in the NRC/NORGLOBAL-funded and UiB-based research project “Competing discourses impacting girls’ and women’s rights: Fertility control and safe abortion in Ethiopia, Zambia and Tanzania”, and which has centred on exploring methods of youth engagement in research on sexual and reproductive health, has been located in Tigray, Ethiopia. Reflecting on the experiences from using an art- and action research-inspired method for researching youth sexual and reproductive health, excepts for all the four episodes of Choices & Consequences will be screened. Having both applied and academic and pretentions, this project is framed by current policies in Ethiopia concerning free access to contraceptives, youth-friendly reproductive health services and an expanded range of legal indications for safe abortion (since 2005). Based on the research data that was generated from using the films in discussions with female and male students, parents, teachers, health workers and religious leaders, and from questionnaire based exploratory surveys before and after students in grade 9 and grade 12 had seen the films, the findings will be discussed. For example, while abstinence is the dominant discourse informing perceptions of youth sexuality (also their own), but not necessarily their practice, girls’ education is an argument that trumps religious concerns in the case of abortion.
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