DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-9463-1
title: Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence: Bangladesh Chittagong and Sylhet Rapid Virtual Survey, 2021
title: Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence, 2017-
title: GAGE

description: &lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence&lt;/span&gt; (GAGE) is a ten-year (2015-2025) research programme, funded by UK Aid from the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), that seeks to combine longitudinal data collection and a mixed-methods approach to understand the lives of adolescents in particularly marginalized regions of the Global South, and to uncover 'what works' to support the development of their capabilities over the course of the second decade of life, when many of these individuals will go through key transitions such as finishing their education, starting to work, getting married and starting to have children.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;GAGE undertakes longitudinal research in seven countries in Africa (Ethiopia, Rwanda), Asia (Bangladesh, Nepal) and the Middle East (Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine). Sampling adolescent girls and boys aged between 10‐19‐year olds, the quantitative survey follows a global total of 18,000 adolescent girls and boys, and their caregivers and explores the effects that programme have on their lives. This is substantiated by in‐depth qualitative and participatory research with adolescents and their peers. Its policy and legal analysis work stream studies the processes of policy change that influence the investment in and effectiveness of adolescent programming.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;Further information, including publications, can be found on the Overseas Development Institute &lt;a href="https://www.gage.odi.org/" target="_blank"&gt;GAGE&lt;/a&gt; website. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; 
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence: Bangladesh Chittagong and Sylhet Rapid Virtual Survey, 2021&lt;/span&gt; includes a sample of 650 girls and boys aged 11-19. The research sample, composed randomly selected adolescents and their families, was recruited during February and March 2020 from adolescents attending grades 7 and 8 across 109 government and monthly-pay-order (MPO) schools in the Chittagong and Sylhet Divisions of Bangladesh.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This data are collected as part of a randomised evaluation of two virtual interventions delivered during COVID-19 related school closures through the Transforming Secondary Education for Results Operation in partnership with The World Bank: (1) a gender-neutral Growth Mindset (GM) programming around malleable intelligence and (2) Girl Rising (GR) programming that focuses on gender norms around girls' education that is layered on top of the GM programming. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;GAGE is not making information available for adolescents living in the intervention locations (66% of the sample) in this initial data release because the evaluation is ongoing and manuscripts using this data are still actively being written. The data on those adolescents will be released in a future update, once publications focusing on evaluation are finalised.&lt;/p&gt;