This study dataset comprised the following attributed in accordance with their theme. The socio-demographic characteristics, age of the respondent, the level of education, religion, marital status, and living status with a partner were some of the attributes. The reproductive behavior of workers, number of children, their / partner’s pregnancy status, their future intention to have a child, and when they would intend to have one were some of the questions asked of respondents.

Qualitative data: The qualitative data indicated female workers have family planning counseling and service need. The awareness of women on the type of services available in the health facility of the workplace is higher as compared to men workers (38.5% of men do not know the types of services). Most prefer to receive FP services; Willingness to pay for service was one of the areas assessed during the study, availing quality SRH service in this community.

Abstract

A cross-sectional study was conducted using a workplace survey of workers and the Health Facility Inventory. It employed both quantitative and qualitative research methods to capture standard demographic and health information to know the SRH need of workers working in selected horticultural and industrial parks in Ethiopia. The overall purpose of this study was to conduct a need assessment of SRH services in selected horticultural farms and industrial parks.

During the SRH needs assessment, the team collected both qualitative and quantitative data from different sources including men, women, and health providers, and managers. The data was further analyzed to better understand the SRH situation in the selected 30 workplaces in Ethiopia. To assess and understand SRH service availability, quality, and workers' community awareness level of SRH-related issues data was collected in December 2018 from 570 women workers and 270 men workers. Besides; focus group discussions with men's groups and women's groups and key informant interviews with workplace health providers and farm managers were carried out in 10 selected workplaces. Also, an inventory of 20 workplaces clinics and 8 surrounding health facilities were carried out.

Finding from this study revealed that 70% of men and women workers interviewed were aged 25 years or less, and the majority of the respondents were single/never been in a marital relationship and literate. About 31.2% of women workers and 27.8% of men workers ever had given birth/ had child and majority with 1-2 child/ren. Regarding the desire to have children 90% of women want to have a child/another child and of these more than 60% would wait for at least two years before getting pregnant. Unintended pregnancy leading to unsafe abortion is one of the major problems in the workplace as well as in places where workers live (61.1% of women and 64.4% of men mentioned it as a major problem). Around 64% of women and 50% of men reported the availability of clinics in their workplace. Respecting using modern family planning method women and men workers accounts for 36.3% and 33% respectively. Finally, 31% of women workers were not aware of abortion methods and 62% know medical abortion drugs as a method of abortion.

Based on this finding the following recommendations are proposed: 1. Advocate for the importance of availing health service provision 2. Provide regular sexual and reproductive health messages focusing on the dangers of unintended pregnancy and its consequences 3. Work with nearby government facility on capacity building training 4. Organize attractive and consistent events to disseminate messages during entry and exit from work 5. Disseminate SRH messages through printed media as the majority of workers can read and write using the local language.

• Rural
• Behavioral Change Impact
• Endline
• Failly planning
• Social marketing
• Mixed study

This dataset comprised the following attributes -socio-demographic characteristics: age of respondent, the highest level of education, religion, marital status, living status with partner in relation to reproductive Behavior: the reproductive behavior of workers, number of children, their / partner’s pregnancy status, their future intention to have children, and when they intend to have been some of the questions asked for respondents. Health Service Availability and Workers Experience: Clinic Available in the Workplace and experience with the facilities.Women Perception on Availability of FP Service: Availability of contraceptive Products and Respondent Awareness on the availability of service and products Health Facility Assessment: focused on the availability of SRH service, quality of service, availability of communication materials required to aid education and counseling service, and readiness to provide a long-acting method of family planning.

Qualitative data: The qualitative data indicated female workers have family planning counseling and service need. The awareness of women on the type of services available in the health facility of the workplace is higher as compared to men workers (38.5% of men do not know the types of services). Most prefer to receive FP services; Willingness to pay for service was one of the areas assessed during the study, availing quality SRH service in this community

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