Teenage Pregnancy Prevention and Anti-Early Marriage Advocacy
Empowering adolescents with knowledge, voice, and protection so they can choose their own futures.
About this programme
Across rural northern Ghana, teenage pregnancy and early marriage remain among the most significant threats to girls' education. When a girl becomes pregnant or is married before she turns eighteen, her schooling almost always ends. The Teenage Pregnancy Prevention and Anti-Early Marriage Advocacy programme confronts this challenge head-on by equipping adolescents with reproductive health knowledge and mobilising communities to reject child marriage.
Our team delivers age-appropriate health education in schools and community spaces, creating safe environments where young people — both girls and boys — can ask questions, learn about their bodies, and understand their rights. These sessions are led by trained facilitators who come from the communities they serve, ensuring that discussions are culturally respectful while being clear and honest about the risks of early pregnancy and the importance of staying in school.
Alongside health education, we work directly with traditional authorities, parents, and school leadership to strengthen community protections against early and forced marriage. When a girl is at risk, our network of community advocates intervenes — mediating with families, connecting girls to support services, and reinforcing the message that every girl deserves the chance to complete her education before marriage.
Our approach
Reproductive Health Education
Age-appropriate, culturally sensitive sessions delivered in schools and community youth groups covering puberty, sexual health, pregnancy prevention, and the importance of completing education.
Anti-Early Marriage Advocacy
Engaging traditional chiefs, religious leaders, and parents in dialogue about the harms of child marriage, and building community consensus around the legal and moral imperative to keep girls in school.
Support Networks
Training teachers, community health workers, and peer mentors to identify girls at risk of early marriage or pregnancy and connect them with protective resources and mediation support.
Who it serves
Adolescents, parents, and traditional leaders — This programme centres on adolescent girls and boys in upper primary and junior high school, while also engaging their parents, guardians, and the traditional authorities who hold significant influence over marriage customs and community norms in northern Ghana.
Education is the best protection
When a girl stays in school, she marries later, has fewer and healthier children, and earns more throughout her life. Every year of secondary education reduces the risk of early marriage. In northern Ghana, where poverty and tradition intersect to place girls at heightened risk, this programme is a direct investment in the next generation of women leaders, professionals, and change-makers.
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Stories and impact data
We are documenting the outcomes of our advocacy and education work with adolescents and communities. Check back for real stories and programme data as our monitoring efforts continue.
Protect girls' futures
Your support helps us reach more adolescents with health education and strengthen community protections against early marriage across northern Ghana.