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Providing Out-of-School Adolescent Girls with Skills: A Review of the Global Evidence

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dc.contributor.authorChakravarty, Shubha
dc.contributor.authorHaddock, Sarah
dc.contributor.authorBotea, Ioana
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-21T18:50:06Z
dc.date.available2016-06-21T18:50:06Z
dc.date.issued2016-05
dc.description.abstractSkills development offers a range of benefits to out-of-school adolescent girls and alleviates a key obstacle to youth employment in developing countries. But do increased skills lead to delays in early marriage and pregnancy? Not always, according to the available empirical evidence. Although the global evidence base on skills training is growing, and despite a theoretical basis for the relationship between skills, employment and fertility, the documented impacts of skills interventions on fertility outcomes are still too limited to draw strong conclusions. The substantial heterogeneity of what constitutes a “skills” intervention contributes to the uncertainty. The strongest evidence is in support of holistic community-based programs that combine information on sexual and reproductive health with skills training and other financial and social assets. More research is needed to isolate the impacts of these different program components and disentangle the causal pathways leading to delays in marriage and pregnancy.en
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/24571
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/24571
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Brief: Malawi;
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectADOLESCENT
dc.subjectDEMOGRAPHIC DIVIDEND
dc.subjectEARLY MARRIAGE
dc.subjectFERTILITY
dc.subjectGIRLS EDUCATION
dc.subjectSCHOOL
dc.subjectSKILLS
dc.subjectTEENAGE PREGNANCY
dc.titleProviding Out-of-School Adolescent Girls with Skillsen
dc.title.subtitleA Review of the Global Evidenceen
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okr.crossref.titleProviding Out-of-School Adolescent Girls with Skills
okr.date.disclosure2016-06-21
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Brief
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/K8733
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/24571
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okr.identifier.report106483
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okr.region.administrativeAfrica
okr.region.countryMalawi
okr.region.countryNepal
okr.region.geographicalAfrica
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Skills Development and Labor Force Training
okr.topicGender::Gender and Education
okr.topicEducation::Nonformal Education
okr.topicSocial Development::Children and Youth
okr.unitEducation Global Practice, GED01; Health, Nutrition, and Population Global Practice
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