Table 1.

The distribution of the interviews among different groups

Policymakers and boundary partners – 16 IDIs	Health service providers and supervisors – IDIs (14)	Parents, community leaders and adolescents - FGDs (18)
State Ministry of Education (SmoE) (1) State Ministry of Health (SmoH) (3) State Ministry of Information (SMOI) (1) Legislator (1) State Primary Health Care Development Agency (1) Ebonyi State Ministry of Youth and Sport Development (ESMOYSD) (1) Media personnel (2) SDGs (1) Traditional rulers (2) Religious leader (1) Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) (1) Civil Society Organisations (CSO) (1)	LGA ASRH focal officers (6) – IDIs PHC workers (OICs) – 2 IDIs Patent Medicine Vendor (PMV)s – 2 IDIs Community Health Workers (CHWs) – 2 IDIs Local Government Area (LGA) admin secretaries (2) – IDIs	Teachers/Principals/GC (6) Male parents (1 FGD) Female parents (1 FGD) Male community leaders (1 FGD) Female community leaders (1 FGD) Male in-school adolescents (2 FGDs) Female in-school adolescents (2 FGDs) Male adolescents in-community (2 FGDs) Female adolescents in-community (2 FGDs)

*Boundary Partners refer to individuals or groups who actively contribute to, and with whom the project or program can engage to drive positive change such as the officers in charge of primary health centres, midwives, adolescent focal persons, and local government reproductive health officers