GAGE Act With Her-Ethiopia Evaluation

Summary

This study evaluates the impact of Act With Her Ethiopia (AWH-E), a gender transformative multi-level program that aims to improve the lives of young adolescent boys and girls.

Conditions

• Adolescent Behavior
• Gender

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Her Spaces

Her Spaces will comprise a set of activities leveraging the Her Spaces curriculum and program model which includes curriculum-based sessions for 11-13 year old girls, with 40 sessions delivered weekly over the course of 10 months

BEHAVIORAL

Act With Her

Act With Her was designed to facilitate adolescent transitions to adulthood via improvements across the six GAGE domains (education, bodily integrity, health, psychosocial well-being, voice and agency, and economic empowerment). Project activities fall into three main categories: curriculum-based programming with adolescent girls and boys, community transformation, and systems strengthening. Act With Her will work with 10-13 year old girls and boys for 10 months and implement community-level and high-level system strengthening work up to 24 months (in rural and pastoralist areas).

BEHAVIORAL

Act With Her + Asset Transfer

This arm will implement the Act With Her program described above, using program curricula with 10-13-year-old girls and boys over 10 months and conducting community-level systems strengthening up to 24 months. Additionally, the girls participating in this arm will receive one of three asset transfer options. The packages will be of equal value (115 USD) - one will include school supplies, one will include hygiene supplies, and will be a combination of both. Each adolescent girl will choose which package she would like to receive and will receive components of the package at 3 timepoints over the course of the first 10 months of the project.

BEHAVIORAL

Act With Her (simple)

This arm will implement the Act With Her curricula described above with 10-13 year old girls and boys over 10 months. The adolescent groups will follow the same model (near-peer, same-sex mentors, 40 weekly meetings for girls, 18 meetings for boys, 4 of which are joint sessions for boys and girls, 6 sessions for parents), but will not include community-level systems strengthening activities

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Overseas Development Institute

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Addis Ababa University

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Oklahoma

  collaborator OTHER

• Pathfinder International

  collaborator INDUSTRY

• Care International

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• UK Department for International Development on behalf of UK Aid

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

  collaborator OTHER

• George Washington University

  lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

10 Years

Max Age

13 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2019-03-01

Primary Completion

2025-12-31

Completion

2026-11-30

Countries

• Ethiopia