Economic Empowerment of Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Liberia - 2010

The Economic Empowerment of Adolescent Girls (EPAG) program provided young Liberian women with livelihood and life skills training to facilitate their transition to productive work. The program targeted young women (16-24 years) who possessed basic literacy and numeracy skills; who were not in school (although night school was okay); and who lived in one of nine target communities in and around Monrovia. The program consisted of six-months of classroom training followed by six-months of placement and support. The baseline survey aimed to benchmark the socioeconomic status of each study participant as a measure of comparison against the midline and endline survey data and to confirm that there are no, or few, statistically significant differences in observable characteristics between the treatment and control groups.