Empowering Adolescents in Rural Kenya: Building Resilience to IPV Using an Innovative Digital Relationship Toolkit and Integrated Approaches

In Kenya, Bungoma County has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates and increasing rates of gender based violence among rural young girls, ages 15-24. These rural adolescents are uniquely vulnerable due to poverty, displacement and conflict. Extreme gaps exist in the local IPV awareness levels and availability of quality IPV prevention and response services. While the national government has committed to establishing comprehensive SGBV care centres, this has yet be realised in Bungoma.