Clinical trial NCT05951673: Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment: Impact Evaluation of a Safe Space-Based Life Skills Training and Digital Literacy Training in Nigeria Space-Based Life Skills Training and Digital Literacy Training in Nigeria
Official title: Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment: Impact Evaluation of a Safe Space-Based Life Skills Training and Digital Literacy Training in Nigeria
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Adolescent Behavior
Life Skills
Digital Skills
Sexual and Reproductive Health
Earning Outcomes
Lead sponsor: World Bank
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2023-07-19
Enrollment: 8463
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 15
Maximum age (years): 20
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Enrolled participants are randomized to Treatment 1 (Life skills only) Treatment 2 (Life skills + digital skills) and control group (No intervention).
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: The investigators will conduct a cluster randomized controlled trial in secondary schools in Nigeria to evaluate the impact of school-based life skills training delivered in safe spaces with and without digital literacy training. This study aims to estimate the causal impacts of the training on adolescents' school performances and retention, socio-emotional skills, digital skills, health, marriage, fertility, and labor market outcomes.

Detailed description: This study will evaluate the impact of a safe-space based life skills training program as well as a combination of life skills and digital literacy training programs on adolescent girls' empowerment, education, economic and sexual and reproductive health outcomes. The interventions form two sub-components of the Adolescent Girls' Initiative for Learning and Empowerment project. The interventions will be delivered to secondary school girls in Northern Nigeria.

The study will be conducted in the Kaduna, Katsina and Kano states of Nigeria. The study has a randomized controlled trial research design where schools are randomly allocated to three groups. Girls in schools assigned to the first treatment group will receive the safe-space based life skills training program. Schools allocated to the second treatment group will deliver a digital literacy training program along with a safe-space based life skills training program. The third group of schools will receive neither training program until the completion of the study. Girls between the age of 15 - 20 form the target group of the study.

The study will evaluate the impact of (i) a safe space-based life skills training program on adolescent girls' empowerment, education, economic and sexual and reproductive health outcomes; and (ii) a combination of a safe-space based life skills and digital literacy training programs on adolescent girls' empowerment, education, economic and sexual and reproductive health outcomes.

A total of 8,463 girls are drawn from 273 schools in the three states. The study will conduct baseline, midline and endline surveys by interviewing the girls and their respective caregivers. The baseline survey is conducted before the intervention roll-out. The midline survey will be conducted six months after intervention completion, while the endline survey will be conducted two years after the completion of the intervention.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Enrolled in study schools
* Enrolled in Senior Secondary 1 level
* Parental consent

Exclusion Criteria:

-

Primary outcomes:
measure: High school graduation
timeFrame: 24 months post intervention
measure: School retention
timeFrame: 6 months post intervention
measure: Marriage
timeFrame: 6 months post intervention
measure: Marriage
timeFrame: 24 months post intervention
measure: Engagement in non-farm income generating activities
timeFrame: 6 months post intervention
measure: Engagement in non-farm income generating activities
timeFrame: 24 months post intervention
measure: Digital financial literacy
timeFrame: 6 months post intervention
measure: Digital financial literacy
timeFrame: 24 months post intervention
measure: Socio-emotional skills index
timeFrame: 6 months post intervention
measure: Socio-emotional skills index
timeFrame: 24 months post intervention
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Goal setting capacity
timeFrame: 6 months post intervention
measure: Goal setting capacity
timeFrame: 24 months post intervention
measure: Aspiration - education attainment
timeFrame: 6 months post intervention
measure: Aspiration - education attainment
timeFrame: 24 months post intervention
measure: Knowledge of climate change
timeFrame: 6 months post intervention
measure: Knowledge of climate change
timeFrame: 24 months post intervention
measure: Digital skills and knowledge
timeFrame: 6 months post intervention
measure: Digital skills and knowledge
timeFrame: 24 months post intervention
measure: Knowledge of productivity program
timeFrame: 6 months post intervention
measure: Knowledge of productivity program
timeFrame: 24 months post intervention
measure: School engagement
timeFrame: 6 months post intervention
measure: School absenteeism
timeFrame: 6 months post intervention
measure: Enrollment in tertiary education
timeFrame: 24 months post intervention
measure: Sexual violence
timeFrame: 6 months post intervention
measure: Sexual violence
timeFrame: 24 months post intervention
measure: Bullying
timeFrame: 6 months post intervention
measure: Bullying
timeFrame: 24 months post intervention
measure: Knowledge on school-related gender-based violence
timeFrame: 6 months post intervention
measure: Knowledge on school-related gender-based violence
timeFrame: 24 months post intervention
measure: Gender attitudes and beliefs
timeFrame: 6 months post intervention
measure: Gender attitudes and beliefs
timeFrame: 24 months post intervention
measure: Pregnancy
timeFrame: 6 months post intervention
measure: Pregnancy
timeFrame: 24 months post intervention
measure: Sexual behavior - ever had sex
timeFrame: 6 months post intervention
measure: Sexual behavior - ever had sex
timeFrame: 24 months post intervention
measure: Drug use - ever used drug
timeFrame: 6 months post intervention
measure: Drug use - ever used drug
timeFrame: 24 months post intervention
measure: Health knowledge
timeFrame: 6 months post intervention
measure: Health knowledge
timeFrame: 24 months post intervention
measure: Sector - ICT
timeFrame: 24 months post intervention
measure: Number of days worked
timeFrame: 6 months post intervention
measure: Number of days worked
timeFrame: 24 months post intervention
measure: Income
timeFrame: 6 months post intervention
measure: Income
timeFrame: 24 months post intervention
measure: Savings
timeFrame: 6 months post intervention
measure: Savings
timeFrame: 24 months post intervention
measure: Perceived social support
timeFrame: 6 months post intervention
measure: Perceived social support
timeFrame: 24 months post intervention
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Abuja
country: Nigeria
facility: World Bank Group
Study officials:
affiliation: World Bank
name: Lea Rouanet, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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