Day 3 in Nianija District, where our research for the Maternal and Adolescent Health Project, also referred to as the Gender Transformative Research (GTR) project, will be conducted.

Today we are doing fieldwork in selected communities, where our maternal and adolescent health project is being implemented. The project seeks to improve sexual, reproductive, and maternal health in Nianija District, through gender transformative research (GTR) and approaches.

We are pleased to share media documentation of our early marriage project. The project seeks to study the factors that perpetuate early marriage for girls in rural Gambia; then to use the information generated to design and test a relevant package of context-specific and culturally relevant interventions to reduce the prevalence of early marriage. Over…

Our project is among a cohort of projects to improve sexual, reproductive and maternal health in Africa through gender-transformative approaches. It is featured on this post by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).

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…