Combining Mentoring Programs with Cash Transfers for Adolescent Girls in Liberia : Baseline Report

This report presents findings from the baseline assessment of International Rescue Committee's (IRC) Girl Empower (GE) program in Nimba County, Liberia. GE seeks to help 13 to 14 year-old girls make healthy life choices and decrease their ris...

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Main Authors: Hallman, Kelly, Kelvin, Elizabeth, Ozler, Berk, Seban, Juliette, Kuhlik, Erica, Alton, Cooper, Kamara, Joseph, Goodman, Sarah
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/08/26698834/combining-mentoring-programs-cash-transfers-adolescent-girls-liberia-baseline-report
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spelling okr-10986-250422021-04-23T14:04:28Z Combining Mentoring Programs with Cash Transfers for Adolescent Girls in Liberia : Baseline Report Hallman, Kelly Kelvin, Elizabeth Ozler, Berk Seban, Juliette Kuhlik, Erica Alton, Cooper Kamara, Joseph Goodman, Sarah adolescent girls mentoring non-consensual sex sexual violence cash transfers sexual abuse This report presents findings from the baseline assessment of International Rescue Committee's (IRC) Girl Empower (GE) program in Nimba County, Liberia. GE seeks to help 13 to 14 year-old girls make healthy life choices and decrease their risk of sexual abuse. The program centers on weekly meetings between girls and trained local mentors, during which the girls learn about life skills and financial literacy. GE also holds monthly discussion groups for participants' caregivers, and trains local health and psychosocial care providers on how to improve and expand services for survivors of gender-based violence. This baseline report is part of a cluster-randomized controlled trial, which aims to assess the program's impact 24 months after baseline. 21 percent of the baseline sample of 13-14 year-old females reported having previously had sex. Within this group, 29 percent indicated that their first sexual act was non-consensual. Among all GE girls, 37 percent reported having experienced sexual violence of some type, such as being physically forced to have sex, non-physically pressured (coerced/persuaded) to have sex, someone unsuccessfully attempting to have sex with them, and being touched in a sexual way. The levels of nonconsensual first sex and any experience of nonconsensual sex are at the high end of the range reported by the UNICEF Violence against Children Surveys (VACS) in Swaziland, Tanzania, Kenya and Zimbabwe. As the VACS reporting is for (a variety of) age ranges, each of which is higher than that in this study, the levels of sexual violence reported here are very high in comparison. 2016-09-12T20:48:44Z 2016-09-12T20:48:44Z 2016-08 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/08/26698834/combining-mentoring-programs-cash-transfers-adolescent-girls-liberia-baseline-report http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25042 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7797 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Liberia
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topic adolescent girls
mentoring
non-consensual sex
sexual violence
cash transfers
sexual abuse
spellingShingle adolescent girls
mentoring
non-consensual sex
sexual violence
cash transfers
sexual abuse
Hallman, Kelly
Kelvin, Elizabeth
Ozler, Berk
Seban, Juliette
Kuhlik, Erica
Alton, Cooper
Kamara, Joseph
Goodman, Sarah
Combining Mentoring Programs with Cash Transfers for Adolescent Girls in Liberia : Baseline Report
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description This report presents findings from the baseline assessment of International Rescue Committee's (IRC) Girl Empower (GE) program in Nimba County, Liberia. GE seeks to help 13 to 14 year-old girls make healthy life choices and decrease their risk of sexual abuse. The program centers on weekly meetings between girls and trained local mentors, during which the girls learn about life skills and financial literacy. GE also holds monthly discussion groups for participants' caregivers, and trains local health and psychosocial care providers on how to improve and expand services for survivors of gender-based violence. This baseline report is part of a cluster-randomized controlled trial, which aims to assess the program's impact 24 months after baseline. 21 percent of the baseline sample of 13-14 year-old females reported having previously had sex. Within this group, 29 percent indicated that their first sexual act was non-consensual. Among all GE girls, 37 percent reported having experienced sexual violence of some type, such as being physically forced to have sex, non-physically pressured (coerced/persuaded) to have sex, someone unsuccessfully attempting to have sex with them, and being touched in a sexual way. The levels of nonconsensual first sex and any experience of nonconsensual sex are at the high end of the range reported by the UNICEF Violence against Children Surveys (VACS) in Swaziland, Tanzania, Kenya and Zimbabwe. As the VACS reporting is for (a variety of) age ranges, each of which is higher than that in this study, the levels of sexual violence reported here are very high in comparison.
format Working Paper
author Hallman, Kelly
Kelvin, Elizabeth
Ozler, Berk
Seban, Juliette
Kuhlik, Erica
Alton, Cooper
Kamara, Joseph
Goodman, Sarah
author_facet Hallman, Kelly
Kelvin, Elizabeth
Ozler, Berk
Seban, Juliette
Kuhlik, Erica
Alton, Cooper
Kamara, Joseph
Goodman, Sarah
author_sort Hallman, Kelly
title Combining Mentoring Programs with Cash Transfers for Adolescent Girls in Liberia : Baseline Report
title_short Combining Mentoring Programs with Cash Transfers for Adolescent Girls in Liberia : Baseline Report
title_full Combining Mentoring Programs with Cash Transfers for Adolescent Girls in Liberia : Baseline Report
title_fullStr Combining Mentoring Programs with Cash Transfers for Adolescent Girls in Liberia : Baseline Report
title_full_unstemmed Combining Mentoring Programs with Cash Transfers for Adolescent Girls in Liberia : Baseline Report
title_sort combining mentoring programs with cash transfers for adolescent girls in liberia : baseline report
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2016
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/08/26698834/combining-mentoring-programs-cash-transfers-adolescent-girls-liberia-baseline-report
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