| Summary: | BRAC educated adolescent girls through its Non-Fonnal Primary Education Programme for
Adolescent Girls (NFPE-AG) as a component of its fonner Women's Heath and Development
Programme (WliDP). The aim of the NFPE-AG programme was to increase the literacy and
numeracy skills . as well as awareness on reproductive health, nutrition and social isSues~ The first
phase ofNFPE-AG was started in September 1991 through 1000 schools in 10 thanas of WHDP
and ended in August 1993. 1bis study was undertaken to assess the level of knowledge retained by
NFPE-AG graduates regarding reproductive health and nutrition issues such as marriage,
pregnancy, safe motherhood and contraception, delivecy, lactation, anaemia, goitre and
menstruation.
A total of 30 former ~"FPE-AG schools (closed 2 years back) were selected from 6 WHDP
areas (5 schools from each area). From each schoo~ 7 NFPE-AG graduates aged 15-19 years
were selected who did not continue their study in fonnal schools after graduation. Another 7
never schooling girls (NS-AGs) aged 15-19 years from TG families were selected as a comparison
group. Thus, a total of 420 adolescent girls (210 from each group) were interviewed in January
1996.
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