their parents and community members. Both surveys adopted similar study designs and 

methodologies. 

The survey consists of two components    quantitative and qualitative. The qualitative 

component includes informal group meetings with community members, including 

teachers, former VDC chairpersons, former ward members, health professionals, Mothers 

Group (MG) chairperson and social workers (

bhadra bhaladmi)

. Six to eight participants 

attended the informal group meetings. A total of four group meetings were conducted. 

Although the research team tried to cover participa nts from all nine wards of the sampled 

VDC, due to  practical difficulties, such as local security problems, the participants could 

not be covered from all the wards and the teams focused on only a few neighbouring 

wards where the group meetings were conduc ted. 

The quantitative component consisted of individual interviews with the adolescents, their 

peers and the parents of the adolescents.  

Sampling Techniques and Survey Respondents 

The quantitative component includes individual interviews with the adolescent girls 

participating in the A GIFT for RH Project

,

 their parents and their peers. In each study 

VDC, four wards were sampled randomly. AGG members from the sampled wards were 

interviewed. In each group there were 11 girls bringing the number surveyed  to 44 in 

each ward

.

 (The number of girls interviewed for the baseline and endline surveys 

comprises 18% of the total number of AGG members of the AGGPT project) Similarly, 

11 parents and 11 peers in the same sampled wards were contacted at random for 

individual interviews by the researchers.  

The sample was derived by using the  EPI Info 6  package based on the following 

assumptions. 

Expected frequency of the factor is 50%, that is p=0.50 

Assumed level of precision was set at 10%  

Confidence interval (CI) was set at 90% 

Estimated design effect is (deft)=2 

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