HIV‐sensitive social protection components	Definitions
Work skills training
Business training	Entrepreneurial training with goal setting, budgeting, cash flow management, development of business and marketing plans.
Financial literacy	Ranges from basic numeracy to budgeting and accounting. Financial literacy is a combination of awareness, knowledge, skill, attitude and behaviour necessary to make sound financial decisions and ultimately achieve individual financial wellbeing.
Life skills	Set of (non)cognitive skills and abilities that connect knowledge, attitudes and behaviour. Skills that increase self‐ and social awareness; management of self‐ and relationships; stress, coping, communication, negotiation, conflict resolution and self‐efficacy. Higher order life skills include problem solving, responsible decision‐making and critical thinking.
Income‐generating activity (IGA) training	Informal professional skills training for low‐skill self‐employment.
Vocational training	Formal professional skills training at nationally accredited institutions for wage employment.
Microfinance
Microfinance (MFI)	Financial services for the poor who are unable to access formal banking services. It encompasses a range of services including microgrants, microcredit and savings.
Microcredit	Small business loans given to credit groups who use social pressure for loan repayment. Group collateral often consists of mandatory savings. Upon repayment, groups can request larger loans. These small business loans are characterized by short repayment periods and high interest rates.
MFI in‐kind	Material contributions to provide investment capital like kits with products to sell, waiving of training fees or subsidies of materials to support training and IGA.
MFI savings	Services or support that encourage saving to absorb economic shocks or invest in future expenditure: adolescent‐friendly savings accounts; providing a safe place to save; informal revolving group saving schemes.
Productive asset transfers	Transfer of material as investment capital to generate sustainable income. Examples are tools, sewing machines, or agricultural inputs like seed, fertilizer or livestock.
Employment support
Job matching	Services that link individuals with public or private sector employment opportunities, career counselling, job searching and placement support, including support for producing and sharing of curriculum vitae.
Public works	Infrastructure and development projects to transfer income to the poor through (temporary) low‐skill employment. Wages are kept low to target the poorest through self‐selection.
Work‐integrated learning	Occupational opportunities to apply professional training in the real world through observation (internships) or mentoring (apprenticeships).
Social support
Mentorship	Provision of (health) information and (psychosocial) support, training and coaching by often slightly older female mentors who model positive behaviour.
Safe space (social and physical)	Social safe space: regular group meetings that serve as venues for training, information dissemination, critical dialogue, but also for sharing of personal experiences and peer and mentor support. Physical safe space: girls‐only or girl‐friendly clubs where girls benefit from social safe space (meetings) or merely hangout with peers; often with social activities.