Evaluated Girl Empower – 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 13–14 in Liberia, facilitated by local female mentors. In the GE+ variation, a cash incentive payment was offered to caregivers for girls’ participation in the program. 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.
Covered the following topics:
- Administrative questions
- Demographics characteristic
- Gender role norms
- Child rearing
- Relationships with parents and other adults
- Social network and safe places
- Self-esteem
- Aspirational attitudes
- Mental health
- Financial literacy
- Gender relations
- Menstruation and FGM
- Knowledge of contraceptive methods
- Knowledge of HIV/AIDS sexually transmitted diseases
- Knowledge of condom effectiveness
- Sexual history
- Physical violence
- Stressful life events
