The Adolescent Girls Initiative (2/3)
Channel: World Bank Group Jobs
Date: 2012-06-22

Matthew De Galan, Senior Fellow at the Nike Foundation, discusses The Adolescent Girls Initiative, a partnership between the Nike Foundation and World Bank. This program works to channel girls into non-traditional economic roles in seven developing countries, including Liberia, Rwanda, and Afghanistan. 

In Liberia, one of the first pilot countries, 2,500 girls have gone through economic empowerment and job skills training. 93 percent of all program participants have completed the training, 83 percent now have jobs, and 100 percent now have savings accounts. Galan says these results show it is possible to find under-educated girls and link them to private sector jobs through meaningful training.