Table 1 Components, beneficiaries, and deliverers of the Teenage Mothers Project

1. Community awareness raising

Awareness raising during community meetings, including goats giving ceremonies in the parish of approximately 30 teenage mothers, attended by community leaders and decision makers.

n.a.

Community members

Community based volunteers

Parents

National and district leaders

ARDI staff

Clan, religious, village, sub-county leaders

Clan, religious, village, sub-county leaders

Intervention activities: speeches by influential (national) leaders, discussion about out-of-wedlock teenage pregnancy, testimonies of teenage mothers and their parents, and songs and theatre plays (edutainment).

School administrators

2. Teenage mothers support group

A group consists of teenage mothers from a particular parish in the project area. The groups focus on social support, advocacy, income generation and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) education.

Unmarried teenage mothers

n.a.

Community based volunteers

Clan, religious, village, sub-county leaders

3. Livelihood

Includes continued (formal) education of the teenage mothers and income generation in the support groups and individually (i.e., goat rearing).

Unmarried teenage mothers

School administrators

Community based volunteers

Clan, religious, village, sub-county leaders

4. Counselling

Aimed at coping with stigma, reconciliation of relationships between parents and teenage mothers, and advice for continued education.

Unmarried teenage mothers

Parents

ARDI staff (counsellors)

Community based volunteers

5. Advocacy

Aims to change and/or implement policies and legislation and to create more awareness and discussion about the well-being of unmarried teenage mothers in Uganda.

n.a.

National, district, and community leaders

ARDI staff

Unmarried teenage mothers

Journalists