Integrating Adolescent Livelihood Activities within a Reproductive Health Programme for Urban Slum Dwellers in India
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collaboration with CARE-India, tested the feasibility and impact of adding four livelihoods and life-skill components to a reproductive health programme for adolescent girls (both school-going and out-of-school) aged 14-19. Using a quasiexperimental preand post-test design that contrasted the experimental group with a comparison group of adolescents, the project investigated whether the intervention: increased girls' physical mobility and contact with individuals outside the family; enhanced girls' skills development and sustained use of these skills; altered work aspirations of girls and encouraged more progressive gender role norms; reduced gender differentials in time use; and increased girls' reproductive health knowledge.
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