Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment: Impact Evaluation of a Safe Space-Based Life Skills Training and Digital Literacy Training in Nigeria Space-Based Life Skills Training and Digital Literacy Training in Nigeria
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Safe Space based life skills training program, Safe Space based life skills training program + Digital Skills.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Adolescent Behavior, Life Skills, Digital Skills, Sexual and Reproductive Health. Basic parameters: 15 years — 20 years · Female.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Nigeria
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment: Impact Evaluation of a Safe Space-Based Life Skills Training and Digital Literacy Training in Nigeria
Overview
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.
Detailed description
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.
Interventions
- Other Safe Space based life skills training program
This is a Safe Space based life skills training program given to adolescent girls. Girls receive a 12 month long training on life skills such as negotiation skills, communication skills, sexual and reproductive health, gender-based violence and climate change. - Other Safe Space based life skills training program + Digital Skills
This is a Safe Space based life skills training program given to adolescent girls complemented with a digital literacy training program. Girls receive a 12 month long training on life skills such as negotiation skills, communication skills, sexual and reproductive health, gender-based violence and climate change. The adolescent girls in this group also receive a digital literacy training program that covers content on word processing. database management and analysis, online marketing, online sa
Primary outcome measures
- High school graduation [Time frame: 24 months post intervention]
- School retention [Time frame: 6 months post intervention]
- Marriage [Time frame: 6 months post intervention]
- Marriage [Time frame: 24 months post intervention]
- Engagement in non-farm income generating activities [Time frame: 6 months post intervention]
- Engagement in non-farm income generating activities [Time frame: 24 months post intervention]
- Digital financial literacy [Time frame: 6 months post intervention]
- Digital financial literacy [Time frame: 24 months post intervention]
- Socio-emotional skills index [Time frame: 6 months post intervention]
- Socio-emotional skills index [Time frame: 24 months post intervention]
Secondary outcome measures (12)
- Goal setting capacity [Time frame: 6 months post intervention]
- Goal setting capacity [Time frame: 24 months post intervention]
- Aspiration - education attainment [Time frame: 6 months post intervention]
- Aspiration - education attainment [Time frame: 24 months post intervention]
- Knowledge of climate change [Time frame: 6 months post intervention]
- Knowledge of climate change [Time frame: 24 months post intervention]
- Digital skills and knowledge [Time frame: 6 months post intervention]
- Digital skills and knowledge [Time frame: 24 months post intervention]
- Knowledge of productivity program [Time frame: 6 months post intervention]
- Knowledge of productivity program [Time frame: 24 months post intervention]
- School engagement [Time frame: 6 months post intervention]
- School absenteeism [Time frame: 6 months post intervention]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Enrolled in study schools
- Enrolled in Senior Secondary 1 level
- Parental consent
Exclusion criteria
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Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Other
Study locations
Nigeria · 1 center
- World Bank Group — Abuja
Identifiers
NCT: NCT05951673 · AGILE IE