From 2018 to 2023, USAID’s Accelerating Universal Access to Family Planning Project, also known as Shukhi Jibon in Bangladesh, reached 1.2 million adolescents across four geographic divisions with family planning information and services. Underpinning this work are innovative community-based initiatives implemented by Shukhi Jibon’s six renowned local partners to increase young people’s ability to exercise their right to sexual and reproductive health care.
This brief identifies key activities driven by local partners and conducted directly with adolescents and youth to enhance young people’s engagement, knowledge, skills, and agency to prevent child, early, and forced marriages; avoid unintended pregnancies; access adolescent-friendly sexual and reproductive health services; and create pathways toward healthy adulthood.
