INTRODUCTION:
Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) services uptake in Nigeria is affected by numerous health system challenges, cultural and religious issues, community and individual limitations like spousal/partners' disapproval, especially among married Adolescents and young women in Northern Nigeria. While these challenges are deeply rooted in gender norms and cultural exchanges from different community ties, and with the opportunity of leveraging peer-to-peer interaction at the community level, the tailors program was designed to increase community ties that leverage tailors as drivers of increased knowledge and uptake of SRHR services in Kaduna state.

METHODS:
Over 12 months, a total of 800 female tailors and their male partners across 10 selected Local Government Areas (LGAs) received training. This training, delivered by community health workers using a specialized learning application called the "Champions App," focused on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR), positive gender norms, and relationship dynamics to improve partner communication on SRH needs. The tailors leveraged this knowledge to engage with their customer base, primarily married adolescents and young people, to facilitate referrals for necessary SRHR services using a designated referral form to Primary Health Centres.

RESULTS:
39811 were reached during this intervention with one form of SRHR messaging or another. 35677 accessed and adopted one form of SRHR services for the first time as a result of this intervention, while 4134 were continued users.

CONCLUSIONS:
The challenges of scaling increased knowledge and uptake of SRHR services in Nigeria, especially in Northern Nigeria, offer so many opportunities for success using unorthodox methods that connect community ties, which increase safe spaces for knowledge and service uptake. The results of these interventions showed that unorthodox concepts such as the Tailors programme can be leveraged to increase SRHR knowledge and service uptake in Northern Nigeria.