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Building Demand for Reproductive Health Awareness Among Adolescent Girls in NepalFrom 2004 to 2006, Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) joined with local partners in the Baglung, Mohottari and Udayapur districts of Nepal to improve adolescents’ lives through a nonformal education program. The program reached 3,200 adolescents between the ages of 10–19 through literacy and critical life skills training that improved reproductive health knowledge and strengthened participant self-confidence. Recognizing the need to work with boys as well as girls to change community norms, boys were included in year two of the program. CEDPA and its partners—Aamaa Milan Kendra, Nepal Technical Assistance Group and the Nepal Red Cross Society—also addressed family and community factors to provide support for changes in attitudes and behaviors. An impressive 45 percent of the out-of-school girls who completed the literacy training component enrolled in primary schools as a result of the project.
Date Published: 26 September 2007 Document Type: Briefs & Fact Sheets Issue: Education (including Non-formal), Family Planning & Reproductive Health, Youth Languages: English Country: Nepal Purchase Method: Download |
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