1. Dissemination of Preliminary Findings from SAFE Baseline Survey Dissemination of Preliminary Findings from SAFE Baseline Research

2. What is SAFE? An action research Growing up safe and healthy: Addressing Sexual and Reproductive Rights and Violence against Adolescent Girls and Women in Urban Bangladesh Project partners: icddr,b BLAST Marie Stopes Nari Maitree (We Can Campaign) Population Council

3. Objectives SAFE is Testing out an intervention for:  Reducing child marriage, teen pregnancy & increasing access to contraceptives  Reducing violence against women and girls

4. Bangladesh (BDHS, 2007) Dhaka Slum (UHS, 2006) Proportion of girls married before 18, %80- Mean age at 1 st pregnancy, years<=19<=18 Contraceptive use rate, %6158 Unmet need for family planning, %12- Wives physically or sexually abused, % Ever During last 12 months 60 18 66 26 Why is it important to address these issues?

5. How does safe address SRHR and violence?  Increasing awareness re sexual & reproductive rights (SRHR), & violence against women & girls (VAWG)  Creating demand for & providing health & legal services  Creating community environment less conducive to denial of SRHR & VAWG  Lobbying for law, policy & procedural reforms in favour of SRHR & rights to live a violence free life

6. Project sites Slums :19 Households:43,539 Population:159,553 Marie Stopes Mohakhali Marie Stopes Mohammadpur Marie Stopes Jatrabari Map courtesy: Kamruzzaman Bhuiyan, Population Council; and Marie Stopes

7. Baseline research  Qualitative formative research  Quantitative survey of: Females Males

8. Qualitative formative research (Jun to Nov, 2011) Tool usedMaleFemaleTotal Key Informant Interview5712 Focus Group Discussion9615 In depth Interview163046 Total304373

9. Quantitative Baseline Survey 4,458 women aged 15-29 1,617 men aged 18-35 Survey period: Aug 2011 to Feb 2012

10. Study design 3-level multi-site cluster randomized trial Arm 1Arm 2Arm 3  Female sample=4,458; Ever married=2,989; Male=1,617 Response rate: 60% ; Refusal: 0.39%

11. Characteristics of females aged 15-29 in studied slums In-migrants:78% Education:51% below primary Occupation:33% women employed 50% of them garment workers Mean age at marriage: 15.61 years Physically/sexually abused by husband last year:76% Unmarried girls physically abused since age 15:38% Unmarried girls ever sexually abused:21%

12. Presentation themes  Marriage and dowry practices  Reproductive and sexual health and childbearing  Spousal violence against women  Violence against unmarried adolescent girls