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 chil...
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okr-10986-254582021-04-23T14:04:31Z Empowering Adolescent Girls in Uganda Bandiera, Oriana Buehren, Niklas Burgess, Robin Goldstein, Markus Gulesci, Selim Rasul, Imran Sulaiman, Munshi 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 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. 2016-11-28T20:55:52Z 2016-11-28T20:55:52Z 2013-01 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/759791468316477824/Empowering-adolescent-girls-in-Uganda http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25458 English en_US Africa Region Gender Practice Policy Brief;No. 4 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 Uganda |
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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 |
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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 Bandiera, Oriana Buehren, Niklas Burgess, Robin Goldstein, Markus Gulesci, Selim Rasul, Imran Sulaiman, Munshi Empowering Adolescent Girls in Uganda |
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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. |
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Brief |
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Bandiera, Oriana Buehren, Niklas Burgess, Robin Goldstein, Markus Gulesci, Selim Rasul, Imran Sulaiman, Munshi |
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Bandiera, Oriana Buehren, Niklas Burgess, Robin Goldstein, Markus Gulesci, Selim Rasul, Imran Sulaiman, Munshi |
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Bandiera, Oriana |
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Empowering Adolescent Girls in Uganda |
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Empowering Adolescent Girls in Uganda |
| title_full |
Empowering Adolescent Girls in Uganda |
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Empowering Adolescent Girls in Uganda |
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Empowering Adolescent Girls in Uganda |
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empowering adolescent girls in uganda |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2016 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/759791468316477824/Empowering-adolescent-girls-in-Uganda http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25458 |
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