Group-based Life Skills and Health Empowerment for Married Women to Avoid Unintended Pregnancies in India

"TARANG is aimed to empower young women to navigate newly formed relationships, improve women's awareness of sexual reproductive health, and challenge inequitable gender norms, with an aim to reduce unintended pregnancies and increase use of family planning. The TARANG intervention for newly married women will include 14 group sessions delivered by trained moderators from Vikalp. It will cover three overarching themes, including norms, empowerment, and sexual and reproductive health and wellbeing.~Four light-touch sessions for mothers-in-law and one in-person session for husbands of newly married women will be conducted. For husbands, TARANG will include one 2-hour group session within the first month of the intervention, followed by regular and moderated content delivery via videos and take-home exercises over WhatsApp groups. Vikalp will conduct door-to-door listing, and a research team from NEERMAN will recruit households into the study depending on the eligibility criteria."