Smart Start Implementation Assets: Counseling Guide

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Smart Start is an innovative ASRH approach, designed under the initial A360 investment, which uses financial counseling as a hook to elicit discussions with married adolescent girls and their husbands around delaying and spacing births. This Smart Start counseling tool uses compelling visuals and analogies to support girls and couples to envision their goals for the future and understand how delaying and spacing births is relevant for the future health and prosperity of their family. After conveying this messaging, girls are provided with contraceptive counseling and service provision should they choose to take up a method.