Dissemination of Preliminary Findings from SAFE Baseline Survey

Dissemination of Preliminary Findings from SAFE Baseline Research

What is SAFE?

Objectives

SAFE is Testing out an intervention for:

Reducing child marriage, teen pregnancy &

increasing access to contraceptives

Reducing violence against women and girls

Bangladesh (BDHS, 2007)

Dhaka Slum (UHS, 2006)

Proportion of girls married before 18, % 80 -

Mean age at 1st pregnancy, years <=19 <=18

Contraceptive use rate, % 61 58

Unmet need for family planning, % 12 -

Wives physically or sexually abused, %• Ever• During last 12 months

6018

6626

Why is it important to address these issues?

How does safe address SRHR and violence?

Increasing awareness re sexual & reproductive rights (SRHR), & violence against women & girls (VAWG)

Creating demand for & providing health & legal services

Creating community environment less conducive to denial of SRHR & VAWG

Lobbying for law, policy & procedural reforms in favour of SRHR &

rights to live a violence free life

Project sites

Slums : 19Households: 43,539Population: 159,553

Marie Stopes Mohakhali

Marie Stopes Mohakhali

Marie Stopes MohammadpurMarie Stopes Mohammadpur

Marie Stopes Jatrabari

Marie Stopes Jatrabari

Baseline research

Qualitative formative research(Jun to Nov, 2011)

Tool used Male Female Total

Key Informant Interview 5 7 12

Focus Group Discussion 9 6 15

In depth Interview 16 30 46

Total 30 43 73

Quantitative Baseline Survey

• 4,458 women aged 15-29

• 1,617 men aged 18-35

• Survey period: Aug 2011 to Feb 2012

Study design

3-level multi-site cluster randomized trial

Arm 1 Arm 2 Arm 3

Female sample=4,458; Ever married=2,989; Male=1,617

Response rate: 60% ; Refusal: 0.39%

Characteristics of females aged 15-29 in studied slums

In-migrants: 78%

Education: 51% below primary

Occupation: 33% women employed 50% of them garment workers

Mean age at marriage: 15.61 years

Physically/sexually abused by husband last year: 76%

Unmarried girls physically abused since age 15: 38%

Unmarried girls ever sexually abused: 21%

Presentation themes

Marriage and dowry practices

Reproductive and sexual health and childbearing

Spousal violence against women

Violence against unmarried adolescent girls