Empowering Adolescent Girls through Safe Spaces and Accompanying Measures in Côte d’Ivoire
This study uses a cluster-randomized controlled trial to investigate the effects of a large-scale women and girls empowerment program on sexual and reproductive health and empowerment outcomes in Côte d’Ivoire. The study assesses and compares the impact of diverse strategies aimed at equipping girls with life skills and sexual and reproductive health knowledge, provided through well-established safe spaces, in isolation or in combination with livelihood support interventions, or with initiatives designed to engage boys and men and community and religious leaders. The findings show that one year after the end of the interventions, safe spaces alone have a moderate impact on girls’ empowerment, while safe spaces combined with husbands’ and future husbands’ clubs are the most impactful. Combining safe spaces with livelihood support interventions leads to improvements in adolescent girls’ employment outcomes, as expected. Finally, the findings show that engaging leaders in the context of safe spaces interventions yields mixed results on girls’ empowerment.
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| Format: | Working Paper biblioteca |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2024-03-13
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| Subjects: | ADOLESCENT GIRLS, SAFE SPACES, HUSBANDS’ CLUBS, INCOME-GENERATING ACTIVITIES, RANDOMIZED EXPERIMENT, GENDER EQUALITY, SDG 5, AFRICA GENDER POLICY, GENDER INNOVATION LAB, WOMEN AND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT, WOMEN AND SOCIAL NORMS, |
| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099314103132429536/IDU1c0b1991d1ba7714b8e19dc6176916e89e31f https://hdl.handle.net/10986/41185 |
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