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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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/630321578283984485/GIL-Top-Policy-Lessons-on-Empowering-Adolescent-Girls http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33138 |
| Summary: | 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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