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The programme empowers 14.000 adolescent girls and boys in 400 villages in Odisha, India, to lead healthier lives, challenge harmful gender norms, and participate in community decision-making. Through peer groups, participatory learning, and adolescent-led advocacy, it builds knowledge, confidence, and leadership while strengthening links to health services and accountability mechanisms. Frontline workers are trained to deliver more responsive services, and community members and governance actors are engaged to support sustained norm change. Implemented by Living Farms with strategic support from Action Child Aid (Denmark), the programme builds on the results and learnings of the ACEH project, scaling proven approaches for long-term, community-driven change. The programme targets over 137.000 individuals, including adolescents, frontline workers, and community members, and applies a rights-based, gender-transformative approach to create lasting, community-driven change.