Evaluation of an Adolescent Development Program for Girls in Tanzania
This paper evaluates a program targeted to adolescent girls in Tanzania that aims to empower them economically as well as socially. The program was found to be highly successful in Uganda in terms of economic, health, and social outcomes. In contra...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/245071486474542369/Evaluation-of-an-adolescent-development-program-for-girls-in-Tanzania http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26025 |
| Summary: | This paper evaluates a program targeted
to adolescent girls in Tanzania that aims to empower them
economically as well as socially. The program was found to
be highly successful in Uganda in terms of economic, health,
and social outcomes. In contrast, this evaluation finds that
the program did not have any notable effect on most of these
outcomes in the Tanzanian setting. The evaluation also
measures the impact of the program with and without
microcredit services. The findings show that the addition of
microcredit improves the take-up of the program and savings
of the participants. The paper explores programmatic
implementation information that helps explain the marked
difference in outcomes between Uganda and Tanzania. This
research shows that layering additional microfinance
services onto an adolescent development program can be an
effective tool to attain greater inclusion of youth in
financial services, and brings out important issues of the
generalizability of the research findings. |
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