Lessons from Partnering with Faith-Based Organizations in Very Young Adolescent Programming

This technical report shows how faith-based organizations LAMB and World Renew, with support from USAID’s MOMENTUM, have demonstrated the potential of community-based organizations to meaningfully address harmful attitudes on gender and sexual and reproductive health, as well as, behaviors, and norms among very young adolescents (VYA), their families, and communities in Bangladesh. The project was funded by USAID’s MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership with coordination by the Faith Engagement Team (led by CCIH) during August 2021 to May 2022. The activity reached 661 very young adolescents, 380 parents/caregivers, and 153 community members with messages and interactive teaching, and demonstrates the potential to strengthen local partner capacity to apply effective programming addressing challenges facing very young adolescents, a populations that is commonly overlooked.