This study is part of a two-year Oak Foundation-funded programme that explores the potential for greater linkages between child protection and anti-poverty work in low- and middle-income countries. It also seeks to better understand the drivers behind cross-generational and transactional sex for adolescent girls in Uganda, to explore the consequences of these encounters, and to analyse the extent to which programming and policy address both drivers and consequences of cross-generational and transactional sexual relations in Uganda.