given that married girls have a very high unmet need for contraception compared to other age groups targeting them within existing family planning and contraceptive efforts would go a long way in terms of realizing their rights achieving equity and better health outcomes and efficiency within systems this includes supporting advocacy efforts to lift legal and policy barriers impeding access to health services partnering with governments civil society and young people to develop and strengthen national programmes delivering quality adolescent sexual and reproductive health services and strengthening young people s leadership and voice in the process service providers should therefore increase the numbers and reach of skilled health workers to provide antenatal delivery and postpartum care to adolescent girls access to emergency obstetric care is especially important since it would help prevent maternal death and morbidity including obstetric fistulae