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Inclusive Education in Nepal

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KEY CHALLENGES

17%

POOREST GIRLS

Poverty drives the risk

17% of teenage girls from Ghana's poorest households have already been pregnant, against just 4% of the wealthiest.

45%

HAVE BEEN TAUGHT

A gap in knowledge

Before the programme, fewer than half of students had ever received any education about family planning.

11.5%

NATIONALLY

A national challenge

Across Ghana, 11.5% of young women aged 15 to 19 report having already been pregnant.
Our Approach

Addressing the challenge

Four connected components that improve care for mothers, newborns and children
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Good Sisters (girls' clubs)

Young people learn best among trusted peers.
  • Girls' clubs in schools as a safe space to discuss the challenges they face
  • Education on sexual and reproductive health and rights, and menstrual hygiene
  • Practical skills for independence - soap-making and bead craft to build confidence and income
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Good Brothers (boys' clubs)

Change needs the adults around a child, not just the child.
  • Boys' clubs so gender norms shift across the whole community, not one half of it
  • SRHR education that tackles the myths and misinformation young men currently rely on
  • Hands-on vocational training in leatherwork - sandal and bag making — to open up livelihoods
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Community awareness & SRHR campaigns

Correcting the misinformation young people currently rely on.
  • Campaigns reaching teenagers, parents, teachers and opinion leaders
  • Accurate family-planning information to counter rumour and stigma
  • Engaging religious leaders, queen mothers and district authorities
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Research & local ownership

Evidence-led, and built to outlast the project.
  • Baseline and follow-up research with University of Manchester partners to understand the real drivers of teenage pregnancy
  • Delivered on the ground by Good Neighbors Ghana, with Ghana Health Service and Ghana Education Service
  • Learning designed to be shared and sustained after the project ends
Our IMpact

The story so far...

Adolescents engaged
Schools reached
Reached with SRHR education
in 10
Now want to wait for marriage
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Stories from Nepal

Where the project lands

They have taught us how to resist advances from boys and also trained us in skills that we can use to earn some income and give to our parents to use to take care of us so that we will not be lured. (girl, Havi)

a Girl's Club Member Akatsi North, Ghana

 
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When my colleagues engage in premarital sex, it is something that entices me but at the club meetings, I learned that when I am not at that particular stage that I engage in premarital sex, it comes with challenges so I have reduced my energy towards those things." 

a Boys' Club Member Akatsi North, Ghana

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Interested in this work?

Learn more about our approach or get in touch to discuss partnership opportunities.

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Zarina Douglas-Sori
Chief Executive
Zarina studied international development at the University of East Anglia and since 2001 has worked for charitable organisations in the United Kingdom and overseas in the fields of poverty alleviation, inclusion, food security and sustainability.

Zarina is passionate about community-led development and empowering minority and disadvantaged groups to lead positive and impactful development and social change. Prior to joining Good Neighbours UK, Zarina worked as a grant officer for Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust. Zarina has experience of leading and managing development programmes. She spent 13 years in West Africa supporting farming families to improve their subsistence and commercial agriculture. Zarina is bi-lingual in English and French and loves learning languages. In her free time Zarina enjoys crochet, karate and yoga.