greater economic security. In the end, she shares her learnings with other women in her village and uses her own economic success to support her children’s schooling and her husband’s business as well. A subsequent moderated discussion prompted members of the community to articulate how Amina’s story, and women’s micro-entrepreneurship more broadly, may align with their goals and values. It also prompted the audience to set collective aspirations for the next generation and to identify coordinated behaviors that would advance those aspirations (Lewin, 1952). This event was conducted with the approval of the village chief. Village elders, religious leaders, and economic leaders were also invited as community members who would likely have influence over women successfully becoming micro-entrepreneurs. Program beneficiaries were also encouraged to invite their husbands, family members, and friends, i.e., people who could provide them instrumental and socioemotional support.

The 1-week life skills training was conducted in groups of approximately 20 women who came together to learn skills like goal setting and planning, decision-making, problem-solving, interpersonal communication, and leadership. In addition to teaching practical skills, these training sessions were intended to build women’s sense of self-worth, confidence, and both independent and interdependent agency. Women were also prompted to identify their values and their strengths as well as discuss their roles in and contributions to their families and communities. The same film from the community sensitization was used in several training sessions to role model the exercise of different life skills and link these skills to community values and contributions. The pedagogy of these trainings was grounded in participatory, problem-centered, personalized learning.

According to administrative data, attendance rates of beneficiaries at the community sensitization events was 89.3%. Attendance rates of beneficiaries in the life skills trainings was 93.8%, and 85% completed at least five of six sessions offered. According to administrative data collected in a subset of villages, the entire sensitization lasted approximately 1.5 hours on average, approximately 250 people attended the sensitization per village, and village chiefs and imams were consistently present. Approximately 18% - 30% of beneficiaries in attendance saw the film with their husbands and 31% with their children. Approximately 87% of beneficiaries in the psychosocial arms reported remembering the film’s protagonist Amina in the follow-up survey.

_<mark>Measures</mark>_ The following description of measures is adapted from Bossuroy et al. (2022) Supplementary Information.

_Economic outcomes. Consumption_ was used as a proxy of poverty. It assessed total daily consumption per adult equivalent, which is the sum of daily household food and non-food consumption as well as expenditures on education, health care, and celebrations, divided by the number of adult equivalents per household. _Food security_ is assessed with the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) (Ballard et al., 2013), which asks eight yes/no questions about a household’s food security over the last year where 0 = “yes” and 1 = “no” and we present a raw sum. The questions are “have you or other members of your household 1) been worried about not having enough food, 2) been unable to eat nutritious and healthy foods, 3) had to eat a smaller variety of foods, 4) had to skip a meal, 5) eaten less than they thought they should, 6) run out of food, 7) been hungry but did not eat, and 8) gone an entire day without eating?” 34