Empowering Adolescent Girls in Uganda

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
Format:	Brief biblioteca
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2013-01
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,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/759791468316477824/Empowering-adolescent-girls-in-Uganda http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25458
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