Adolescent Girls Initiative - Kenya - 2017

Kenya
Sub-Saharan Africa

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 four packages of interventions: 1) violence prevention only; 2) violence prevention + education; 3) violence prevention + education + health; and 4) violence prevention + education + health + wealth.

Study Website

Adolescents: 5000-10000

Sex:

Females

Age Range:

10-14
15-19

Study Design:

Experimental

Type of Data:

Longitudinal

Time Period: 2015-2017

Areas Covered: Cities: Kibera, Wajir

Investigators: Karen Austrian (Population Council)

Funders: UK Department for International Development (DFID)

Series:

Not applicable

Topics

Community Engagement;

Demographic Characteristics - Urban and Rural;

Economics - Employment, Savings;

Education - Grade attainment/attendance, Learning;

Endorsement of violence;

Family/Household Structure;

Gender Attitudes/Beliefs - Gender role beliefs, Marriage attitudes;

Health Care Access and Utilization;

HIV/AIDS and STIs - Knowledge, Testing;

Marriage;

Migration and Mobility - Social Networks;

Physical Health - Nutrition, Self-reported health;

Reproductive Health - Family planning/contraception, Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting, Fertility, Sexual behavior;

Subjective Expectations;

Time Use;

Violence - Emotional/psychological violence, Physical violence, Sexual violence;