The productive potential of adolescent
girls in Uganda is critically limited by the reciprocal
relationship between low health, education and employment
indicators. With little incentive to attain relevant skills
training, girls choose to have children early and become
engaged in risky behavior, further hampering their ability
to generate income. To address these challenges, we
evaluated the impact of a BRAC program that simultaneously
provided livelihoods training to run small-scale
enterprises, and education on health and risky behaviors.
After tracking 4,888 girls over a period of two years, the
author found that the program had strong positive impacts on
economic, health and agency outcomes for the girls. The
program increased the likelihood of participants engaging in
income-generating activities by 32 percent; self-reported
routine condom use by those who were sexually active
increased by 50 percent; fertility rates dropped by 26
percent; and there was a 76 percent reduction in adolescent
girls reporting having had sex against their will during the
past year.
Bibliographic Details
| Main Authors: |
Bandiera, Oriana,
Buehren, Niklas,
Burgess, Robin,
Goldstein, Markus,
Gulesci, Selim,
Rasul, Imran,
Sulaiman, Munshi |
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| Format: | Brief
biblioteca
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| Language: | English
en_US |
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| Published: |
World Bank, Washington, DC
2013-01
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| Subjects: | ADOLESCENT,
ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT,
ADOLESCENT FERTILITY,
ADOLESCENT GIRLS,
ADOLESCENT HEALTH,
ADOLESCENTS,
AGE OF MARRIAGE,
AGRICULTURAL TRAINING,
CHILD MARRIAGE,
CHILDBEARING,
CLASSROOM,
COMMUNITY HEALTH,
CONDOM,
CONDOM USE,
DEPENDENCY RATIO,
EARLY MARRIAGE,
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES,
FAMILY PLANNING,
FERTILITY,
FERTILITY RATES,
FIRST CHILD,
FIRST MARRIAGE,
HEALTH TRAINING,
HIV,
HIV INFECTION,
INCOME-GENERATING ACTIVITIES,
INFECTIONS,
INFORMATION CAMPAIGNS,
INTERVENTIONS,
LABOR FORCE,
LABOR MARKET,
LEADERSHIP,
LIFE SKILLS,
LIFE-SKILLS,
LIVELIHOOD SKILLS,
MENSTRUAL DISORDERS,
MENSTRUATION,
NUMBER OF BIRTHS,
NUMBER OF CHILDREN,
OLDER MEN,
POLICY BRIEF,
PREGNANCY,
RAPE,
READING,
RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES,
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH,
RISKY BEHAVIOR,
SEX,
SEXUALLY ACTIVE,
SKILLS TRAINING,
TEEN,
TEEN PREGNANCY,
TEENAGE PREGNANCY,
UNEMPLOYMENT,
UNEMPLOYMENT RATES,
UNPROTECTED SEX,
VIOLENCE,
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN,
YOUNG GIRLS,
YOUNG WOMEN,
YOUNGER GIRLS,
YOUNGER WOMEN,
YOUTH,
WOMEN AND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT, |
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/759791468316477824/Empowering-adolescent-girls-in-Uganda
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25458
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