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2017

-2022

Udaan: Preventing teenage pregnancy with a 360° approach

Children's Investment Fund Foundation

Udaan

Preventing adolescent pregnancy by combining system level interventions with on-ground actions to change social practices around early marriage and pregnancy, Udaan was a five-year project implemented in the state of Rajasthan.

UDAAN, a five-year project aimed at reducing early marriage of girls and teenage pregnancy, was implemented in Rajasthan. The project was designed to address the alarming situation of early marriage of girls leading to early childbearing, dropping out of school and other detrimental consequences. It adopted a multi-sectoral approach to prevent teenage pregnancy, layering interventions beyond sexual health, to fundamentally change the way adolescent programmes operate and achieve results. The investment leveraged existing government platforms and programmes to focus on three interrelated components.

Three Pronged-Approach

  • Keeping Girls in Secondary Schools
  • Improving Knowledge, Attitude & Practices around Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Expanding Contraceptive Choices for Young Women

Impact

  • 35,543 child marriages prevented 
  • 28,220 averted teenage pregnancies averted
  • 52,651 additional girls enrolled in schools
  • 575,140 female users introduced to the new Injectable contraceptive method
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