Expanding Access to Secondary School Education for Teenage Mothers in Kenya
Homa Bay County in the former Nyanza Province of Kenya is characterized by high unintended teenage pregnancy rates. Despite a policy that allows teenage [...]
Adolescent Girls Initiative-Kenya
AGI-K evaluated the short- and long-term impact of a multidimensional program for young adolescent girls in marginalized settings in Kenya. The second phase evaluated [...]
Biruh Tesfa (“Bright Future”)
The Biruh Tesfa Project established safe spaces girls’ groups for out-of-school migrants and domestic workers in low-income urban areas of Ethiopia. Biruh Tesfa (Bright [...]
Evaluating the Nia Project
For many adolescent girls around the world, puberty is a vulnerable time when girls face various pressures and challenges—including sexual harassment, abuse, early marriage, [...]
Adolescent Girls Empowerment Program
Social isolation, economic vulnerability, and lack of access to health care prevent healthy transitions from girlhood to womanhood, especially for vulnerable adolescent girls in [...]
GirlsRead! Developing Evidence-Based Approaches to Keep Girls in School
In Zambia where only 22% of females aged 20–24 have completed secondary school versus 31% of males, literacy levels among students are extremely low. [...]
BALIKA (Bangladeshi Association for Life Skills, Income, and Knowledge for Adolescents)
Despite significant progress in many gender and reproductive health indicators, two out of three girls in Bangladesh are married before the legal age of [...]
The Evidence for Gender and Education Resource (EGER)
Low- and middle-income countries have made enormous progress in expanding primary school enrollment since the 1990s, especially for girls. Yet questions remain about how [...]