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Field
Intervention (Public)
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Before
Intervention is the BRAC's flagship Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescent (ELA) Program. As part of this program, adolescent girls visit BRAC ELA clubs. The ELA clubs serve as a safe space for adolescent girls, with a particular focus on girls who have dropped out of school or might otherwise be at risk of early pregnancy. In each club, BRAC trains a lead club mentor to facilitate sessions on health, nutrition, financial literacy, and life skills. The life skills curriculum includes sexual and reproductive health education on topics related to family planning and contraception, HIV and other Sexually Transmitted Infections, menstrual hygiene, early and forced marriage, and gender-based violence. BRAC also provides business training and microloans to older girls age 18 and above to start their own enterprises. This results in a unique approach combining sexual and reproductive health education with livelihood and financial literacy training, as both are necessary for girls to realize their full potential and disrupt the cycle of poverty
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After
Our intervention is to encourage young girls to attend BRAC's Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescent (ELA) Program. As part of this program, adolescent girls visit BRAC ELA clubs. The ELA clubs serve as a safe space for adolescent girls, with a particular focus on girls who have dropped out of school or might otherwise be at risk of early pregnancy. In each club, BRAC trains a lead club mentor to facilitate sessions on health, nutrition, financial literacy, and life skills. The life skills curriculum includes sexual and reproductive health education on topics related to family planning and contraception, HIV and other Sexually Transmitted Infections, menstrual hygiene, early and forced marriage, and gender-based violence. BRAC also provides business training and microloans to girls above 18 years of age to start their own enterprises. This results in a unique approach combining sexual and reproductive health education with livelihood and financial literacy training, as both are necessary for girls to realize their full potential and disrupt the cycle of poverty.
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Field
Experimental Design (Public)
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Before
The ELA Impact Evaluation will follow randomized encouragement design for evaluating the impact of ELA intervention in the treatment groups as compared to the control groups
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After
The ELA Impact Evaluation will follow a Randomized Encouragement Design for evaluating the impact of encouraging the girls on program take up, life skills and sexual and reproductive health knowledge in the treatment groups as compared to the control groups
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