Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment: Impact Evaluation of a Safe Space-Based Life Skills Training and Digital Literacy Training in Nigeria
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 招募中
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 8,463
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Engagement in non-farm income generating activities
研究概览
简要总结
The investigators will conduct a cluster randomized controlled trial in secondary schools in Nigeria to evaluate the impact of school-based life skills training delivered in safe spaces with and without digital literacy training. This study aims to estimate the causal impacts of the training on adolescents' school performances and retention, socio-emotional skills, digital skills, health, marriage, fertility, and labor market outcomes.
详细描述
This study will evaluate the impact of a safe-space based life skills training program as well as a combination of life skills and digital literacy training programs on adolescent girls' empowerment, education, economic and sexual and reproductive health outcomes. The interventions form two sub-components of the Adolescent Girls' Initiative for Learning and Empowerment project. The interventions will be delivered to secondary school girls in Northern Nigeria.
The study will be conducted in the Kaduna, Katsina and Kano states of Nigeria. The study has a randomized controlled trial research design where schools are randomly allocated to three groups. Girls in schools assigned to the first treatment group will receive the safe-space based life skills training program. Schools allocated to the second treatment group will deliver a digital literacy training program along with a safe-space based life skills training program. The third group of schools will receive neither training program until the completion of the study. Girls between the age of 15 - 20 form the target group of the study.
The study will evaluate the impact of (i) a safe space-based life skills training program on adolescent girls' empowerment, education, economic and sexual and reproductive health outcomes; and (ii) a combination of a safe-space based life skills and digital literacy training programs on adolescent girls' empowerment, education, economic and sexual and reproductive health outcomes.
A total of 8,463 girls are drawn from 273 schools in the three states. The study will conduct baseline, midline and endline surveys by interviewing the girls and their respective caregivers. The baseline survey is conducted before the intervention roll-out. The midline survey will be conducted six months after intervention completion, while the endline survey will be conducted two years after the completion of the intervention.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Other
- 盲法
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
盲法说明
Randomized using computer-generated randomization; Outcome assessors blinded against treatment assignment.
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 15 Years 至 20 Years（Child, Adult）
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Enrolled in study schools
- •Enrolled in Senior Secondary 1 level
- •Parental consent
排除标准
- 未提供
研究组 & 干预措施
Control - No intervention
Adolescent girls in this group receive neither the safe space-based life skills training program nor the digital literacy training program.
Treatment 2 - Recieves Safe Space based life skills training program + digital literacy training
Adolescent girls in this group receive a safe space-based life skills training program and a digital literacy training program within their school.
干预措施: Safe Space based life skills training program + Digital Skills (Other)
Treatment 1 - Receives Safe Space based life skills training program
Adolescent girls in this group receive a safe space-based life skills training program within their school.
干预措施: Safe Space based life skills training program (Other)
Treatment 2 - Recieves Safe Space based life skills training program + digital literacy training
Adolescent girls in this group receive a safe space-based life skills training program and a digital literacy training program within their school.
干预措施: Safe Space based life skills training program (Other)
结局指标
主要结局
Engagement in non-farm income generating activities
时间窗: 24 months post intervention
a binary indicator coded 1 if a girl engaged in any paid non-farm activity in the last completed month
School retention
时间窗: 6 months post intervention
a binary indicator coded to 1 if a girl is in school based on school registers
High school graduation
时间窗: 24 months post intervention
a binary indicator coded to 1 if a girl has obtained a high school diploma
Marriage
时间窗: 24 months post intervention
a binary indicator coded 1 if an adolescent girl has ever been married (including cohabitation) and 0 otherwise.
Digital financial literacy
时间窗: 24 months post intervention
a composite score based on 30 items that measure respondent's financial literacy and access to digital tools, with a higher score indicating greater literacy and access
Socio-emotional skills index
时间窗: 24 months post intervention
a composite score based on indices that measure different socio-emotional skills, e.g., personal initiative, negotiation, decision-making, and communication
次要结局
- Goal setting capacity(24 months post intervention)
- Sexual violence(24 months post intervention)
- Sexual behavior - ever had sex(24 months post intervention)
- Knowledge of climate change(24 months post intervention)
- Knowledge of productivity program(24 months post intervention)
- Gender attitudes and beliefs(24 months post intervention)
- Pregnancy(24 months post intervention)
- Aspiration - education attainment(24 months post intervention)
- Perceived social support(24 months post intervention)
- Drug use - ever used drug(24 months post intervention)
- Income(24 months post intervention)
- Savings(24 months post intervention)
- Sector - ICT(24 months post intervention)
- Digital skills and knowledge(24 months post intervention)
- School engagement(6 months post intervention)
- School absenteeism(6 months post intervention)
- Enrollment in tertiary education(24 months post intervention)
- Bullying(24 months post intervention)
- Knowledge on school-related gender-based violence(24 months post intervention)
- Health knowledge(24 months post intervention)
- Number of days worked(24 months post intervention)