ASSESSMENT PURPOSE
The goal of the assessment is to identify opportunities for the U.S. Embassy to invest in and develop strategic partnerships to improve adolescents’ lives, particularly emphasizing girls’ empowerment, focusing on their access to quality education. The assessment’s dual objectives are to:
1. Assess the barriers to and opportunities for adolescent girls’ and boys’ access to secondary school education, health, and safety.
2. Map current donor and civil society interventions targeting 10-19-year-old girls and affecting their access to and completion of secondary school education, and provide recommendations for interventions to support the US Global Strategy to Empower Adolescent Girls, including a set of 3-6 districts where interventions could be most impactful.

ASSESSMENT BACKGROUND
To support the US Global Strategy to Empower Adolescent Girls, the U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu undertook this assessment to inform U.S. Government agencies in Nepal about key populations, geographic areas, and types of interventions where additional investments and interventions to empower adolescent girls are likely to make the most impact and correspond with stakeholders’ priorities.