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Austrian, Karen; Kangwana, Beth, 2025, "Evaluation of the NISITU Program: A quasi-experimental study to determine the effect of a gender attitudes and gender-based violence program for adolescents in Nairobi, Kenya", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/IXB7WW, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:O2QZeb7NsRbTpLED8gbY6A== [fileUNF]
This was a quasi-experimental study that reached out to 5500 participants (girls ages 10–19 and boys and young men ages 10–24) in Nairobi County-Kenya. The overall goal of the project was to test an intervention model to: 1) improve gender equitable norms among adolescent girls, boys, and young men; 2) reduce the experience of GBV among adolescent... |
Dec 7, 2023
Nandi, Arindam; Haberland, Nicole; Ngo, Thoai, 2023, "Country level data for the "The Radical Power of Education" report", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/REDX1Z, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Data accompanying the "The Radical Power of Education" prepared for the Gender, Education, Justice and Equity Initiative (GEJE) of the Population Council. |
Mar 2, 2021
Austrian, Karen; Soler-Hampejsek, Erica; Maluccio, John; Abuya, Benta; Kangwana, Beth; Dibaba Wado, Yohannes, 2018, "Adolescent Girls Initiative - Kenya (AGI-K)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/94U224, Harvard Dataverse, V5, UNF:6:jXML+5jVuT9JUgHvuUjRpg== [fileUNF]
The Adolescent Girls Initiative is a longitudinal, randomized controlled trial that is testing the impact of different multi-sectoral packages of intervention on very young adolescent girls in two marginalized geographies of Kenya - an urban informal settlement and rural areas in northeastern Kenya along the border of Somalia. The trial is testing... |
Dec 12, 2020
Ahmad, Jaleel; Hazra, Avishek, 2020, "Assessment of knowledge, attitudes, and empowerment of adolescents and young women in Uttar Pradesh", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NQYBPM, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:xg/oj6WfaibyH9sMEdDc3Q== [fileUNF]
Rajiv Gandhi Mahila Vikas Pariyojana (RGMVP), an Indian nongovernmental organization, has been mobilizing poor and marginalized women into self-help groups (SHGs) for more than a decade in Uttar Pradesh. RGMVP also mobilizes adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) by leveraging their existing network of SHGs. Initially, daughters of SHG members and... |
Nov 16, 2020
Amin, Sajeda, 2020, "BALIKA: Skills-building programs to reduce child marriage in Bangladesh—A randomized controlled trial", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/5089ZV, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:e8HCL7AD+8f6X6dqIPhR6g== [fileUNF]
Child marriage is the norm in Bangladesh, leading to lifelong negative consequences. Evidence on sustainable child marriage programs is scant. Our study aimed to evaluate the impact of three community-based skills-building programs to delay child marriage among adolescent girls in rural Bangladesh. Methods: The study used a cluster randomized contr... |
Santhya, KG, 2020, "UDAYA, Adolescent Survey, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, 2018–19", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ZJPKW5, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:6:OFHPLK3sHViRiCBOkeZjfg== [fileUNF]
Understanding the lives of adolescents and young adults (UDAYA) is a longitudinal study of adolescent boys and girls in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India. UDAYA survey data sets contain information on adolescents aged 10–19 at wave 1 and aged 13–22 at wave 2 and the households to which they belonged. Five categories of adolescents were included in the... |
Austrian, Karen, 2018, "Adolescent Girls Empowerment Program (AGEP)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CFIUC6, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:6:hv10ozq2P1r7Dh81gDg0lw== [fileUNF]
Through the Adolescent Girls Empowerment Program (AGEP), the Population Council and partners implemented a social, health, and economic asset-building program for vulnerable adolescent girls in Zambia. Council researchers also conducted a rigorous four-year impact evaluation of the program using a randomized cluster design. The study followed girls... |
Blanc, Ann, 2019, "Validating Indicators of Family Planning, Maternal and Newborn Care – Cambodia, Bangladesh and Kenya", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VRAUAH, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:aAXaP5ho/xJ6dhz2DJFxeg== [fileUNF]
The overarching objective of the study is to improve the monitoring of the quality of maternal, newborn and family planning services through identifying and validating a set of indicators that can be accurately self-reported by women. The main research question is: can accurate information on the quality and content of received maternal and newborn... |
Abdel-Tawab, Nahla, 2018, "Married Adolescent Girls in Rural Assiut and Souhag: Limited Choices and Unfulfilled Reproductive Health Needs", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/21IXV4, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:6:SVoyTKYO6LDEB2A0Cw9jSQ== [fileUNF]
Although median age of marriage has increased in Egypt to 21 years for women and 23 years for men and despite the presence of a law that sets the minimum age of marriage at 18 years, child marriage continues to exist in Egypt. According to Survey of Young People in Egypt (SYPE) 2014, 21.1% of married female youth aged 25-29 in Egypt were married be... |
Austrian, Karen, 2018, "Safe and Smart Savings", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SOW4HP, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:6:tT+qy9bmgpSWiMs+jiMHow== [fileUNF]
Safe and Smart Savings is a Population Council–developed program to help vulnerable adolescent girls build assets, support networks, and savings in order to break the grip of poverty. The program combined weekly group meetings facilitated by a female mentor, financial education, health and life skills education, and formal individual savings accoun... |
