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Dissemination of Preliminary Findings from SAFE Baseline Survey

Dissemination of Preliminary Findings from SAFE Baseline Research. Dissemination of Preliminary Findings from SAFE Baseline Survey. What is SAFE?. An action research Growing up safe and healthy: Addressing Sexual and Reproductive Rights and

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Dissemination of Preliminary Findings from SAFE Baseline Survey

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

  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. 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. Slums : 19 Households: 43,539 Population: 159,553 Project sites Map courtesy: Kamruzzaman Bhuiyan, Population Council; and Marie Stopes Marie StopesMohakhali Marie StopesMohammadpur Marie StopesJatrabari

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

  8. Qualitative formative research (Jun to Nov, 2011)

  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 Arm 1 3-level multi-site cluster randomized trial Arm 2 Arm 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

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