Still Ongoing: Monitoring and Supervision of project activities. Today, we are in Lower Baddibu District (see, attached map), where we have implemented the following package of interventions. (1) Community engagement forums and discussion sessions around gender and social norms surrounding early marriage (2) Direct advocacy and training for communities and local leaders to enlist their…

Today, our project research team is visiting selected communities in Lower Baddibu District. We will be shooting a drama on early marriage and teenage pregnancy and conducting interviews with community members to document the implementation and achievements of our project in addressing early marriage and adolescent pregnancy in the rural Gambia. As part of the…

Happening in Kerewan Now: Training of data collectors for assessing the effect of the implementation of our project package of interventions on early marriage and teenage pregnancy in The Gambia.

Today, the Society for the Study of Women’s Health (SSWH), will be joining its partner organizations, the Agency for the Development of Women and Children (ADWAC) and Youth Harvest Foundation-Ghana (YHFG), to launch our gender transformative research (GTR) project entitled, ‘Shifting gender norms for improved maternal and adolescent health in The Gambia and Ghana.’ This…