Break Free! is a 5-year partnership programme led by PLAN International Netherlands, the SRHR Africa Trust (SAT) and the Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) and financed by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the objective for adolescents to exercise their right to live free from teenage pregnancy and child marriage, supported by civil society. To achieve this objective, the Break Free! Alliance strengthens civil society organizations, youth-led groups and networks to lobby and advocate for improved legislation and implementation to increase girls’ agency and to promote social norm change in favour of the prevention of child marriage and teenage pregnancy, and in some countries female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). Break Free! operates in nine countries in sub-Saharan Africa: Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia.
KIT Royal Tropical Institute is a technical partner within the Break Free! partnership and was asked to conduct part of the MTR. In turn KIT Royal Tropical Institute hired PALMCoL to work together on the MTR for the Break Free Programme. PALMCoL was responsible for obtaining ethical approval from the National Committee for Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities, hiring of research assistants, training of research assistants, collection of data and compilation of the MALAWI Break Free MTR report which was submitted to KIT Royal Tropical Institute.