Empowering Adolescent Girls : Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Uganda

Nearly 60 percent of Uganda's population is aged below twenty. This generation faces health and economic challenges associated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), early pregnancy, and unemployment. Whether these challenges are due to a lack of information and or vocational skills is however uncertain. A programme was conducted to provide: (i) vocational training to run small-scale enterprises; and (ii) information on health and risky behaviors. The programme conducted, positively impacts behaviors on both economic and health margins. On economic margins, the intervention raises the likelihood that girls engage in income generating activities by 32 percent mainly driven by increased participation in self-employment. On health related margins, self-reported routine condom usage increases by 50 percent among the sexually active, and the probability of having a child decreases by 26 percent. Strikingly, the share of girls reporting sex against their will drops from 21 percent to almost zero. The findings suggest combined interventions might be more effective among adolescent girls than single-pronged interventions aiming to improve labor market outcomes solely through vocational training, or to change risky behaviors solely through education programmes.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Bandiera, Oriana, Buehren, Niklas, Burgess, Robin, Goldstein, Markus, Gulesci, Selim, Rasul, Imran, Sulaiman, Munshi
Format:	Working Paper biblioteca
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012-12
Subjects:	ABILITY OF YOUNG, ADOLESCENT, ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT, ADOLESCENT GIRL, ADOLESCENT GIRLS, ADOLESCENT HEALTH, ADOLESCENTS, ADULTHOOD, AGE AT MARRIAGE, AGE AT MENARCHE, AGE COHORT, ANAL SEX, BABIES, BABY, BIRTHS, BOTH SEXES, CHILD BEARING, CHILD MARRIAGE, CHILD-BEARING, CHILDBEARING, CHILDBIRTH, CLASSROOM, COGNITIVE SKILLS, CONDOM, CONDOM USE, CONDOMS, CONTRACEPTION, CONTRACEPTIVE METHODS, CONTRACEPTIVE USAGE, CURRICULUM, DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS, DEPENDENCY RATIO, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, EARLY MARRIAGE, EARLY PREGNANCY, ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY, EMPOWERMENT OF GIRLS, ENROLLMENT, ENROLLMENT RATES, ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILLS, ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAINING, EXPOSURE TO HEALTH RISKS, FAMILY MEMBERS, FAMILY PLANNING, FERTILITY, FERTILITY DROPS, FERTILITY RATES, FORMS OF CONTRACEPTION, GENDER RELATIONS, GENDER ROLES, GIRLS, GLOBAL POPULATION, HEALTH PROBLEMS, HEALTH RISKS, HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS, HETEROSEXUAL INTERCOURSE, HIGHER LEVEL OF EDUCATION, HIV, HIV INFECTION, HIV INFECTIONS, HUMAN CAPITAL, IMPACT ON FERTILITY, IMPACT ON GIRLS, INFECTIONS, INFORMATION CAMPAIGNS, INTERVENTIONS, JOB OPPORTUNITIES, LABOR FORCE, LABOR MARKET, LABOR SUPPLY, LACK OF INFORMATION, LEADERSHIP, LEGAL RIGHTS, LEVEL OF EDUCATION, LIFE SKILLS, LIFE-SKILLS, LITERACY, LITERACY COURSES, LITERACY TRAINING, LIVELIHOOD SKILLS, MARRIED ADOLESCENT GIRLS, MENSTRUAL DISORDERS, MENSTRUATION, NEWBORN, NUMBER OF ADOLESCENTS, NUMBER OF BIRTHS, NUMBER OF CHILDREN, OLD GIRLS, OLDER GIRLS, OLDER MEN, PEER EDUCATION, POLICY MAKERS, PREGNANT WOMAN, PRIMARY DATA, PROVISION OF INFORMATION, RAPE, RAPID POPULATION GROWTH, READING, RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES, RELATIONS WITH MEN, RELATIONSHIPS WITH MEN, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH, RETURNS TO EDUCATION, RISKY BEHAVIOR, RISKY SEX, RURAL AREAS, RURAL LOCATIONS, SAFER SEX, SCHOOL ATTENDANCE, SCHOOL DROP, SCHOOL DROP-OUTS, SCHOOL ENROLLMENT, SCHOOL ENROLMENT, SCHOOL GOING, SCHOOLING, SCHOOLS, SECONDARY SCHOOL, SERVICE DELIVERY, SEX, SEX WORK, SEX WORKERS, SEXUAL ACTIVITY, SEXUAL BEHAVIORS, SEXUAL RELATIONS, SEXUALLY ACTIVE, SHORT-TERM RELATIONSHIPS, SKILL TRAINING, SKILLS TRAINING, SOCIAL NORMS, SOCIAL UNREST, SPILLOVER, TEACHING, TEEN, TEEN PREGNANCIES, TEEN PREGNANCY, TEENAGE GIRLS, TEENAGE PREGNANCIES, TEENAGE PREGNANCY, TRAINING COURSES, TRAINING PROGRAMS, UNEMPLOYMENT, UNEMPLOYMENT RATES, UNPROTECTED SEX, URBAN AREAS, VAGINAL SEX, VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, VOCATIONAL SKILLS, VOCATIONAL TRAINING, YOUNG GIRLS, YOUNG PEOPLE, YOUNG WOMEN, YOUNGER GIRLS, YOUTH, YOUTH POPULATION, YOUTH POPULATIONS, AFRICA GENDER POLICY, GENDER INNOVATION LAB, WOMEN AND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/12/17385460/Empowering-adolescent-girls-evidence-from-a-randomized-control-trial-in-Uganda http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25529
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