{"doc_desc":{"idno":"DDI_LBR_2015-2017_GEIE_v01_M","producers":[{"name":"Development Economics Data Group","abbreviation":"DECDG","affiliation":"The World Bank","role":"Documentation of the DDI"}],"prod_date":"2021-03-24","version_statement":{"version":"Version 01 (March 2021)."}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"LBR_2015-2017_GEIE_v01_M","title":"Girl Empower Impact Evaluation Survey 2015-2017","sub_title":"A gender Transformative Mentoring and Cash Transfer Intervention to Promote Adolescent Wellbeing","alt_title":"GEIE 2015-17"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Berk Ozler","affiliation":"The World Bank"},{"name":"Marie Guimond","affiliation":"International Rescue Committee"},{"name":"Elizabeth Kelvin","affiliation":"City University of New York"},{"name":"Kelly Hallman","affiliation":"Population Council"}],"production_statement":{"funding_agencies":[{"name":"NoVo Foundation","abbreviation":"","role":""}]},"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"Berk Ozler","affiliation":"DECRG, World Bank","email":"bozler@worldbank.org","uri":""}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Other Household Survey [hh\/oth]"},"version_statement":{"version":"Version 01: Edited, anonymized dataset for public distribution"},"study_info":{"abstract":"Background: We evaluated Girl Empower \u2013 an intervention that aimed to equip adolescent girls with the skills to make healthy, strategic life choices and to stay safe from sexual abuse using a cluster-randomized controlled trial with three arms: control, Girl Empower (GE), and GE+. Methods: GE delivered a life skills curriculum to girls aged 13\u201314 in Liberia, facilitated by local female mentors. In the GE+ variation, a cash incentive payment was offered to caregivers for girls\u2019 participation in the program. We evaluated the impact of the program on seven pre-specified domains using standardized indices: sexual violence, schooling, sexual and reproductive health (SRH), psychosocial wellbeing, gender attitudes, life skills, and protective factors.\n\nFindings: Participation rates in the program were high in both GE and GE+, with the average participant attending 28 out of 32 sessions. At 24 months, the standardized effects of both GE and GE+, compared to control, on sexual violence, schooling, psychosocial wellbeing, and protective factors were small (\u00df, ? 0.11 standard deviations [SD]) and not statistically significant at the 95% level of confidence. However, we found positive standardized effects on Gender Attitudes (GE: \u00df, 0.206 SD, p<0.05; GE+: \u00df, 0.228 SD, p<0.05), Life Skills (GE: \u00df, 0.224 SD, p<0.05; GE+: \u00df, 0.289 SD, p<0.01), and SRH (GE: \u00df, 0.244 SD, p<0.01; GE+: \u00df, 0.372 SD, p<0.01; Ftest for GE \u00bc GE+: p \u00bc 0.075).\n\nInterpretation: Girl Empower led to sustained improvements in several important domains, including SRH, but did\nnot reduce sexual violence among the target population.\n\nThe study was pre-registered at: Guimond, Marie et al. 2019. \"Girl Empower.\" AEA RCT Registry. March 20. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1257\/rct.2717-5.0.","coll_dates":[{"start":"2015-01","end":"2015-09","cycle":"Baseline"},{"start":"2017-08","end":"2017-09","cycle":"Endline"}],"nation":[{"name":"Liberia","abbreviation":"LBR"}],"geog_coverage":"Nimba County, Liberia","analysis_unit":"Adolescent girls - caregivers","data_kind":"Sample survey data [ssd]","notes":"The Liberia Girl Empower Impact Evaluation Survey covered the following topics:\n- Administrative questions\n- Demographics characteristic\n- Gender role norms\n- Child rearing\n- Relationships with parents and other adults\n- Social network and safe places\n- Self-esteem\n- Aspirational attitudes\n- Mental health\n- Financial literacy\n- Gender relations\n- Menstruation and FGM\n- Knowledge of contraceptive methods\n- Knowledge of HIV\/AIDS sexually transmitted diseases\n- Knowledge of condom effectiveness\n- Sexual history\n- Physical violence\n- Stressful life events"},"method":{"data_collection":{"sampling_procedure":"We conducted a parallel cluster-randomized controlled trial with three arms: control, GE, and GE+ (allocation ratio: 1:1:1). In order to reach the estimated required sample size, we used data from the 2008 census of the Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information Services to develop a list of 100 villages likely to have at least five eligible girls aged 13 or 14. 10,930 households were listed in these 100 villages between July and September 2015 and 16 villages were found to contain fewer than five eligible girls and removed from the study sample. In the remaining 84 villages, we surveyed 1,216 eligible girls and 1,132 caregivers.","coll_mode":"Computer Assisted Personal Interview [capi]","research_instrument":"There were three questionnaires administered for this survey:\n- GE Caregiver (baseline and endline questionnaires)\n- GE Girl (baseline and endline questionnaires)\n- GE Girl Violence (endline questionnaire)"}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"conf_dec":[{"txt":"","required":"yes","form_no":"","uri":""}],"cit_req":"The use of the datasets must be acknowledged using a citation which would include: \n- the identification of the Primary Investigator \n- the full title of the survey and its acronym (when available), and the year(s) of implementation \n- the survey reference number \n- the source and date of download (for datasets disseminated online).","disclaimer":"The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses."}}},"schematype":"survey","tags":[{"tag":"DOI"}]}