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    Reducing Teenage Pregnancy in Sierra Leone

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    Date
    2017-11
    Author
    Georgalakis, James
    Wessells, Michael
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    Abstract
    Research directly involving teenagers and their families in Sierra Leone to reduce teenage pregnancy has helped pave the way for a new community-friendly Child and Family Welfare Policy. The research by the Columbia Group for Children in Adversity and UNICEF Sierra Leone mobilised local people through child- and youth-led education initiatives and through closer connections with district health workers. Thanks to the project, condom use increased, teenage girls reported feeling more confident to say ‘no’ and boys showed more willingness to act responsibly. The findings directly influenced the Sierra Leone government’s development of a new policy on child protection.
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    https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/13433
    Citation
    Georgalakis, J. and Wessells, M. (2017) Reducing Teenage Pregnancy in Sierra Leone, ESRC-DFID Research Impact, Cambridge: REAL Centre at the University of Cambridge and The Impact Initiative.
    DOI
    10.35648/20.500.12413/11781/ii290
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    ESRC-DFID Research Impact;
    More details
    https://doi.org/10.35648/20.500.12413/11781/ii290
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    The Impact Initiative 2017
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    https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
    Sponsor
    ESRC-DFID
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