In each community across the intervention districts, the INSTRUCT district teams of young women fieldworkers identify vulnerable young women aged 15-29 years, not in school and not in work. To ensure they reach them all, including the most marginalized, they use respondent driven recruitment, an extension of respondent driven sampling, and information from community leaders, social workers, health workers and others. The fieldworkers then interview the young women about themselves and their knowledge and experience of applying to a range of government structural support programmes. They record the interview responses on Android handsets and later send the records to a secure central server, from which they can be downloaded as a dataset for analysis.

At the end of the interview, they use their handsets to show the young women video clips about available government support programmes. And they invite the young women to attend a workshop in the community to build their social and communication skills, learn about available government programmes and meet local programme officers.

The INSTRUCT team presented a poster about the findings from the ongoing recruitment survey up to October 2017 at the AIDSImpact conference in Cape Town, 13-15 November 2017. Among the 2908 young women respondents, many had multiple choice-disability factors (structural disadvantages), few had applied to support programmes, and even fewer had been successful in their applications.