Empowering Adolescent Girls through Safe Spaces and Accompanying Measures in Côte d’Ivoire
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Washington, DC: World Bank
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This study uses a cluster-randomized
controlled trial to investigate the effects of a large-scale
women and girls empowerment program on sexual and
reproductive health and empowerment outcomes in Côte
d’Ivoire. The study assesses and compares the impact of
diverse strategies aimed at equipping girls with life skills
and sexual and reproductive health knowledge, provided
through well-established safe spaces, in isolation or in
combination with livelihood support interventions, or with
initiatives designed to engage boys and men and community
and religious leaders. The findings show that one year after
the end of the interventions, safe spaces alone have a
moderate impact on girls’ empowerment, while safe spaces
combined with husbands’ and future husbands’ clubs are the
most impactful. Combining safe spaces with livelihood
support interventions leads to improvements in adolescent
girls’ employment outcomes, as expected. Finally, the
findings show that engaging leaders in the context of safe
spaces interventions yields mixed results on girls’ empowerment.
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ADOLESCENT GIRLS, SAFE SPACES, HUSBANDS’ CLUBS, INCOME-GENERATING ACTIVITIES, RANDOMIZED EXPERIMENT, GENDER EQUALITY, SDG 5, AFRICA GENDER POLICY, GENDER INNOVATION LAB, WOMEN AND YOUTH EMPLOYMENT, WOMEN AND SOCIAL NORMS