GIL Top Policy Lessons on Empowering Adolescent Girls

Adolescent girls face multiple challenges that restrict their horizons, often having to make decisions about employment and their fertility at an early age, and with limited formal education opportunities. With lower levels of education than men, g...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Brief
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:	AFRICA GENDER POLICY GENDER INNOVATION LAB ADOLESCENT GIRL WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT VOCATIONAL TRAINING FINANCIAL LITERACY ACCESS TO FINANCE GIRLS CLUB REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH MENTORING WOMEN AND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT YOUTH EMPLOYMENT
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/630321578283984485/GIL-Top-Policy-Lessons-on-Empowering-Adolescent-Girls http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33138

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spelling	okr-10986-331382021-05-25T10:54:39Z GIL Top Policy Lessons on Empowering Adolescent Girls World Bank AFRICA GENDER POLICY GENDER INNOVATION LAB ADOLESCENT GIRL WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT VOCATIONAL TRAINING FINANCIAL LITERACY ACCESS TO FINANCE GIRLS CLUB REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH MENTORING WOMEN AND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT YOUTH EMPLOYMENT Adolescent girls face multiple challenges that restrict their horizons, often having to make decisions about employment and their fertility at an early age, and with limited formal education opportunities. With lower levels of education than men, girls are often less equipped for work. Additionally, a plethora of expected domestic responsibilities limit their time for income-generating opportunities. A range of gender innovation lab (GIL) studies across Sub-Saharan Africa have demonstrated the potential of girls’ empowerment programs to change the life trajectories of young women even across a variety of contexts. These programs typically combine community-based girls clubs, life-skills training, vocational training, and sometimes financial literacy and microcredit access, for young women. In addition to implementation in countries such as Uganda and Tanzania, these programs have also helped create a buffer from conflict for young women in South Sudan and during the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone - showing that they are beneficial even across fragile contexts. 2020-01-07T16:26:59Z 2020-01-07T16:26:59Z 2020-01 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/630321578283984485/GIL-Top-Policy-Lessons-on-Empowering-Adolescent-Girls http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33138 English Gender Innovation Lab; 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 Sub-Saharan Africa Liberia Sierra Leone Uganda
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description	Adolescent girls face multiple challenges that restrict their horizons, often having to make decisions about employment and their fertility at an early age, and with limited formal education opportunities. With lower levels of education than men, girls are often less equipped for work. Additionally, a plethora of expected domestic responsibilities limit their time for income-generating opportunities. A range of gender innovation lab (GIL) studies across Sub-Saharan Africa have demonstrated the potential of girls’ empowerment programs to change the life trajectories of young women even across a variety of contexts. These programs typically combine community-based girls clubs, life-skills training, vocational training, and sometimes financial literacy and microcredit access, for young women. In addition to implementation in countries such as Uganda and Tanzania, these programs have also helped create a buffer from conflict for young women in South Sudan and during the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone - showing that they are beneficial even across fragile contexts.
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title	GIL Top Policy Lessons on Empowering Adolescent Girls
title_short	GIL Top Policy Lessons on Empowering Adolescent Girls
title_full	GIL Top Policy Lessons on Empowering Adolescent Girls
title_fullStr	GIL Top Policy Lessons on Empowering Adolescent Girls
title_full_unstemmed	GIL Top Policy Lessons on Empowering Adolescent Girls
title_sort	gil top policy lessons on empowering adolescent girls
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2020
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/630321578283984485/GIL-Top-Policy-Lessons-on-Empowering-Adolescent-Girls http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33138
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GIL Top Policy Lessons on Empowering Adolescent Girls

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