TRANSITIONS TO ADULTHOOD
Safe Spaces

Strengthening Social and Health Services to Meet Adolescent Girls’ Health and Development Needs in Burkina Faso and Egypt

Objectives of this project are fourfold:

1. Test the feasibility of using community resource people to provide reproductive health information to adolescent girls;
2. Define appropriate venues, including the possibility of creating special spaces, for married and unmarried adolescent girls;
3. Determine the appropriate content of training (e.g., skills building, savings clubs, reproductive health information); and
4. Develop appropriate indicators for evaluating and measuring project outcomes.

A set of research studies that were part of the initial diagnostic phase were completed. These studies included a quantitative survey of married and unmarried adolescents, a qualitative study of the marriage process, a desk review of existing adolescent policy and programming, an inventory of health and social services in selected zones, and an assessment of health services in the project area.

Preliminary data analysis and study summaries for each of these are near completion. In addition, the project made progress in defining specific intervention components for married and unmarried adolescent girls. Organizers held a series of team meetings that included both government and NGO partners to review research findings, discuss the intervention strategy, and develop the overall framework for intervention activities.

Location
Burkina Faso, Egypt

Population Council researchers
International Programs Division staff

Non-Council collaborators

Burkina Faso
Burkinabe Association for Family Welfare
Government of Burkina Faso, Ministry of Social Action
Mwangaza

Egypt
Ray Langsten
Nadia Zibani
Caritas
Ministry of Education
Ministry of Health and Population
Ministry of Youth and Sport

International
Centre for Development and Population Activities
Save the Children

Donor
U.K. Department for International Development

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19 October 2007