Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment: Impact Evaluation of a Safe Space-Based Life Skills Training and Digital Literacy Training in Nigeria

2023-06-13

2024-08-31

- High school graduation: a binary indicator coded to 1 if a girl has obtained a high school diploma
- School retention: a binary indicator coded to 1 if a girl is in school based on school registers
- Marriage: a binary indicator coded 1 if an adolescent girl has ever been married (including cohabitation) and 0 otherwise.
- Engagement in non-farm income generating activities: a binary indicator coded 1 if a girl engaged in any paid non-farm activity in the last completed month
- Digital financial literacy: a composite score based on 30 items that measure respondent’s financial literacy and access to digital tools, with a higher score indicating greater literacy and access
- Socio-emotional skills index: a composite score based on indices that measure different socio-emotional skills, e.g., personal initiative, negotiation, decision-making, and communication

- Goal setting capacity: a composite score based on 8 items that measure the respondent's ability to set a goal
- Aspiration - education attainment: a variable that indicates the level of formal education the respondent would like to complete
- Knowledge of climate change: a composite score calculated based on the correct answers to a list of questions related to climate change
- Digital skills and knowledge: a composite score based on 31 items that measure respondent's technical and operational skills, information navigation and processing skills, communication and interaction skills, and content creation and production skills
- Knowledge of productivity program: a composite score of items developed based on the digital literacy training curriculum
- School engagement: a composite score based on 8 items that measure respondent's school engagement
- School absenteeism: number of days a girl missed in the last completed month
- Enrollment in tertiary education: a binary indicator coded to 1 if a girl is enrolled in tertiary education
- Sexual violence: a composite score based on the frequency of different types of sexual violence reported by the respondent
- Bullying: a composite score based on the frequency of different types of bullying reported by the respondent
- Knowledge on school-related gender-based violence: the fraction of correct responses to 12 questions that ask whether an act is considered violence
- Gender attitudes and beliefs: a composite score for (a) gender equality beliefs based on the frequency of the different types of favorable gender equality beliefs, and (b) acceptability of IPV based on the frequency of the different types of violence girls find acceptable
- Pregnancy: a binary indicator coded 1 if an adolescent girl has ever been pregnant and 0 otherwise.
- Sexual behavior - ever had sex: a binary indicator coded 1 if an adolescent girl has ever had sex and 0 otherwise.
- Drug use - ever used drug: a binary indicator coded 1 if an adolescent girl has ever used drugs and 0 otherwise.
- Health knowledge: a composite score for (a) correct answers on knowledge of SRH, menstruation, and puberty, and (b) correct answers on knowledge of nutrition
- Sector - ICT: a binary indicator coded 1 if a girl engages in income-generating activities related to ICT
- Number of days worked: number of days a girl was engaged in paid work in the last complete month
- Income: aggregate income earned in the last completed month
- Savings: amount saved in the last completed month
- Perceived social support: mean score from the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support

This study is designed as a cluster randomized controlled trial. Randomization of the intervention will occur at the school level. A total of 273 schools will be randomized into one of the three study arms: life skills training, life skills plus digital skills training, or control. Data will be collected from schools, pupils, and pupils' caregivers at baseline and two follow-up time points (6 months and 24 months after the completion of the intervention).

Not available

Randomization done in office by a computer

School

Yes

273 schools

8463 pupils and 8463 caregivers

94 schools control, 90 schools life skills training, 89 schools life skills and digital literacy training