Overview Brief: Passages Project

Passages addresses the root of chronic challenges in family planning and reproductive health — such as gender-based violence, child marriage, and unintended pregnancy — by transforming social norms. This USAID-funded project (2015-2021) fosters normative environments that enable young people to use voluntary family planning and achieve healthy timing of first and subsequent pregnancies through scalable programs. Passages also builds evidence-based programs to reach younger adolescents transitioning to puberty to lay the groundwork for life-long health and well-being.