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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okr-10986-260252021-06-08T14:42:47Z Evaluation of an Adolescent Development Program for Girls in Tanzania Buehren, Niklas Goldstein, Markus Gulesci, Selim Sulaiman, Munshi Yam, Venus adolescent girls empowerment microfinance ELA program AFRICA GENDER POLICY GENDER INNOVATION LAB WOMEN AND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT 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. 2017-02-08T22:34:41Z 2017-02-08T22:34:41Z 2017-02 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/245071486474542369/Evaluation-of-an-adolescent-development-program-for-girls-in-Tanzania http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26025 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7961 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 Tanzania Uganda |
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adolescent girls empowerment microfinance ELA program AFRICA GENDER POLICY GENDER INNOVATION LAB WOMEN AND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT Buehren, Niklas Goldstein, Markus Gulesci, Selim Sulaiman, Munshi Yam, Venus Evaluation of an Adolescent Development Program for Girls in Tanzania |
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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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Working Paper |
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Buehren, Niklas Goldstein, Markus Gulesci, Selim Sulaiman, Munshi Yam, Venus |
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Buehren, Niklas Goldstein, Markus Gulesci, Selim Sulaiman, Munshi Yam, Venus |
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Buehren, Niklas |
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Evaluation of an Adolescent Development Program for Girls in Tanzania |
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Evaluation of an Adolescent Development Program for Girls in Tanzania |
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Evaluation of an Adolescent Development Program for Girls in Tanzania |
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Evaluation of an Adolescent Development Program for Girls in Tanzania |
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Evaluation of an Adolescent Development Program for Girls in Tanzania |
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evaluation of an adolescent development program for girls in tanzania |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2017 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/245071486474542369/Evaluation-of-an-adolescent-development-program-for-girls-in-Tanzania http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26025 |
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