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What is the aim of the IMAGINE program?

IMAGINE uses a holistic approach that combines education on reproductive health, business skills, and life skills for married and unmarried adolescent girls and husbands , as well as health provider training on adolescent and youth-friendly health services, community dialogue sessions to address harmful social norms impacting adolescent childbearing, and income-generating opportunities so that motherhood is not girls’ only option. Activities are designed to inform and equip girls while engaging families and communities and influencing systems to create a better environment for girls to exercise their rights and make decisions about their health and lives.

What is the IMAGINE project?

This brief provides an overview of the IMAGINE project, which is currently testing holistic interventions that hold promise at supporting the healthy timing of first birth among married adolescents in Niger and Bangladesh.

Why is it important for adolescents to delay their first pregnancy?

Empowering adolescents to delay the timing of their first pregnancy can result in positive health and economic outcomes, such as healthy pregnancies and infants, completing their education, and economic prosperity. Unfortunately, married adolescent girls face numerous social and structural barriers that impact their ability to delay childbearing.

What is a family planning manual?

This manual, for facility- and community-based health workers, combines reflective dialogue sessions around social and gender norms with technical training in family planning counseling for adolescent clients. It also contains exercises to support the creation of individual and health facility-based action plans in order to better meet adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health needs. Also available in Bengali by request.