This project aims to improve the realization of sexual and reproductive health and rights for adolescent girls and women, including vulnerable populations, in Nigeria’s Bauchi and Sokoto states. Project activities include: (1) training adolescents, parents and family members and mentoring adolescent girls on life skills, sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), gender equality, and inclusion and child protection; (2) establishing and strengthening women and adolescent savings groups and providing the groups’ participants with financial literacy and entrepreneurship skills; (3) training health care providers on gender and adolescent-responsive and inclusive sexual and reproductive health (SRH), including mental health; (4) training and supporting teachers, including religious school teachers, to provide information on SRH, sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) prevention and response, infection prevention and control, and child protection; (5) training local- and state-level women’s rights organizations on advocacy for SRHR, SGBV, child, early and forced marriage and women’s and girls’ rights; and (6) facilitating a research study led by girls and young women on decision-making around SRHR and gender equality. The project expects to reach 638,525 direct beneficiaries (481,100 girls and young women and 157,425 boys and young men), 1,185,917 indirect beneficiaries (550,632 girls and women); and 635,285 boys and men) and 1,976 intermediaries such as teachers, school heads, community facilitators, government officials and traditional and religious leaders.
