BALSK has improved sexual and reproductive health outcomes, with a focus on vulnerable and hard to reach populations, by delivering projects aimed at averting unintended pregnancies and promoting healthy timing and spacing practices.

• Working with Adolescents and Youth:  India’s youth are its future. BALSK empowers young people to make informed choices about their reproductive health, preventing unintended pregnancies and enabling them to plan their families. This investment in their well-being will shape a stronger and more prosperous future for India.
• Increasing Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Services: BALSK expands the reach of family planning services by working with ASHA and ANM workers to conduct outreach activities in underserved communities. This includes strengthening linkages with primary health care hospitals to provide comprehensive reproductive health services, particularly for vulnerable groups such as Mahadalits and young couples. Improving how health care staff and facilities provide comprehensive sexual and reproductive health information and services by strengthening their knowledge and capacity.
• Social and Behavior Change Interventions:  BALSK uses digital technologies, capacity-building modules, and social behavior change toolkits to address barriers to reproductive health, supports health facilities to address service provider attitudes and biases to improve FP service practices, including counselling, method choice, and quality of care.

Comprehensive Safe Abortion Care:  At the community level, BALSK conducts awareness campaigns about the laws around abortion in the country, the dangers of unsafe abortion, and the availability of safe abortion services.