Providing Out-of-School Adolescent Girls with Skills : A Review of the Global Evidence

Skills development offers a range of benefits to out-of-school adolescent girls and alleviates a key obstacle to youth employment in developing countries. But do increased skills lead to delays in early marriage and pregnancy? Not always, according to the available empirical evidence. Although the g...

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Main Authors:	Chakravarty, Shubha, Haddock, Sarah, Botea, Ioana
Format:	Brief
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
Subjects:	ADOLESCENT DEMOGRAPHIC DIVIDEND EARLY MARRIAGE FERTILITY GIRLS EDUCATION SCHOOL SKILLS TEENAGE PREGNANCY
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24571

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spelling	okr-10986-245712021-05-25T08:48:58Z Providing Out-of-School Adolescent Girls with Skills : A Review of the Global Evidence Chakravarty, Shubha Haddock, Sarah Botea, Ioana ADOLESCENT DEMOGRAPHIC DIVIDEND EARLY MARRIAGE FERTILITY GIRLS EDUCATION SCHOOL SKILLS TEENAGE PREGNANCY Skills development offers a range of benefits to out-of-school adolescent girls and alleviates a key obstacle to youth employment in developing countries. But do increased skills lead to delays in early marriage and pregnancy? Not always, according to the available empirical evidence. Although the global evidence base on skills training is growing, and despite a theoretical basis for the relationship between skills, employment and fertility, the documented impacts of skills interventions on fertility outcomes are still too limited to draw strong conclusions. The substantial heterogeneity of what constitutes a “skills” intervention contributes to the uncertainty. The strongest evidence is in support of holistic community-based programs that combine information on sexual and reproductive health with skills training and other financial and social assets. More research is needed to isolate the impacts of these different program components and disentangle the causal pathways leading to delays in marriage and pregnancy. 2016-06-21T18:50:06Z 2016-06-21T18:50:06Z 2016-05 Brief http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24571 English en_US Policy Brief: Malawi; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief Africa Africa Malawi Nepal
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description	Skills development offers a range of benefits to out-of-school adolescent girls and alleviates a key obstacle to youth employment in developing countries. But do increased skills lead to delays in early marriage and pregnancy? Not always, according to the available empirical evidence. Although the global evidence base on skills training is growing, and despite a theoretical basis for the relationship between skills, employment and fertility, the documented impacts of skills interventions on fertility outcomes are still too limited to draw strong conclusions. The substantial heterogeneity of what constitutes a “skills” intervention contributes to the uncertainty. The strongest evidence is in support of holistic community-based programs that combine information on sexual and reproductive health with skills training and other financial and social assets. More research is needed to isolate the impacts of these different program components and disentangle the causal pathways leading to delays in marriage and pregnancy.
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author	Chakravarty, Shubha Haddock, Sarah Botea, Ioana
author_facet	Chakravarty, Shubha Haddock, Sarah Botea, Ioana
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title	Providing Out-of-School Adolescent Girls with Skills : A Review of the Global Evidence
title_short	Providing Out-of-School Adolescent Girls with Skills : A Review of the Global Evidence
title_full	Providing Out-of-School Adolescent Girls with Skills : A Review of the Global Evidence
title_fullStr	Providing Out-of-School Adolescent Girls with Skills : A Review of the Global Evidence
title_full_unstemmed	Providing Out-of-School Adolescent Girls with Skills : A Review of the Global Evidence
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Providing Out-of-School Adolescent Girls with Skills : A Review of the Global Evidence

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