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NCT Number: 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

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Adolescent Behavior Behavior Coitus Digital Skills Earning Outcomes Life Skills Sexual Behavior Sexual and Reproductive Health

Age range

15 year–20 year

Sex eligibility

Female

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

About this study

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.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

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

Exclusion criteria

-

Treatment and study plan

Safe Space based life skills training program

Other

This is a Safe Space based life skills training program given to adolescent girls. Girls receive a 12 month long training on life skills such as negotiation skills, communication skills, sexual and reproductive health, gender-based violence and climate change.

Safe Space based life skills training program + Digital Skills

Other

This is a Safe Space based life skills training program given to adolescent girls complemented with a digital literacy training program. Girls receive a 12 month long training on life skills such as negotiation skills, communication skills, sexual and reproductive health, gender-based violence and climate change. The adolescent girls in this group also receive a digital literacy training program that covers content on word processing. database management and analysis, online marketing, online safety and programming.

Primary outcomes

  1. High school graduation

    Time frame: 24 months post intervention

    a binary indicator coded to 1 if a girl has obtained a high school diploma

  2. School retention

    Time frame: 6 months post intervention

    a binary indicator coded to 1 if a girl is in school based on school registers

  3. Marriage

    Time frame: 6 months post intervention

    a binary indicator coded 1 if an adolescent girl has ever been married (including cohabitation) and 0 otherwise.

  4. Marriage

    Time frame: 24 months post intervention

    a binary indicator coded 1 if an adolescent girl has ever been married (including cohabitation) and 0 otherwise.

  5. Engagement in non-farm income generating activities

    Time frame: 6 months post intervention

    a binary indicator coded 1 if a girl engaged in any paid non-farm activity in the last completed month

  6. Engagement in non-farm income generating activities

    Time frame: 24 months post intervention

    a binary indicator coded 1 if a girl engaged in any paid non-farm activity in the last completed month

  7. Digital financial literacy

    Time frame: 6 months post intervention

    a composite score based on 30 items that measure respondent's financial literacy and access to digital tools, with a higher score indicating greater literacy and access

  8. Digital financial literacy

    Time frame: 24 months post intervention

    a composite score based on 30 items that measure respondent's financial literacy and access to digital tools, with a higher score indicating greater literacy and access

  9. Socio-emotional skills index

    Time frame: 6 months post intervention

    a composite score based on indices that measure different socio-emotional skills, e.g., personal initiative, negotiation, decision-making, and communication

  10. Socio-emotional skills index

    Time frame: 24 months post intervention

    a composite score based on indices that measure different socio-emotional skills, e.g., personal initiative, negotiation, decision-making, and communication

Secondary outcomes

  1. Goal setting capacity

    Time frame: 6 months post intervention

    a composite score based on 8 items that measure the respondent's ability to set a goal

  2. Goal setting capacity

    Time frame: 24 months post intervention

    a composite score based on 8 items that measure the respondent's ability to set a goal

  3. Aspiration - education attainment

    Time frame: 6 months post intervention

    a variable that indicates the level of formal education the respondent would like to complete

  4. Aspiration - education attainment

    Time frame: 24 months post intervention

    a variable that indicates the level of formal education the respondent would like to complete

  5. Knowledge of climate change

    Time frame: 6 months post intervention

    a composite score calculated based on the correct answers to a list of questions related to climate change

  6. Knowledge of climate change

    Time frame: 24 months post intervention

    a composite score calculated based on the correct answers to a list of questions related to climate change

  7. Digital skills and knowledge

    Time frame: 6 months post intervention

    a composite score based on 31 items that measure respondent's technical and operational skills, information navigation and processing skills, communication and interaction skills, and content creation and production skills

  8. Digital skills and knowledge

    Time frame: 24 months post intervention

    a composite score based on 31 items that measure respondent's technical and operational skills, information navigation and processing skills, communication and interaction skills, and content creation and production skills

  9. Knowledge of productivity program

    Time frame: 6 months post intervention

    a composite score of items developed based on the digital literacy training curriculum

  10. Knowledge of productivity program

    Time frame: 24 months post intervention

    a composite score of items developed based on the digital literacy training curriculum

  11. School engagement

    Time frame: 6 months post intervention

    a composite score based on 8 items that measure respondent's school engagement

  12. School absenteeism

    Time frame: 6 months post intervention

    number of days a girl missed in the last completed month

  13. Enrollment in tertiary education

    Time frame: 24 months post intervention

    a binary indicator coded to 1 if a girl is enrolled in tertiary education

  14. Sexual violence

    Time frame: 6 months post intervention

    a composite score based on the frequency of different types of sexual violence reported by the respondent

  15. Sexual violence

    Time frame: 24 months post intervention

    a composite score based on the frequency of different types of sexual violence reported by the respondent

  16. Bullying

    Time frame: 6 months post intervention

    a composite score based on the frequency of different types of bullying reported by the respondent

  17. Bullying

    Time frame: 24 months post intervention

    a composite score based on the frequency of different types of bullying reported by the respondent

  18. Knowledge on school-related gender-based violence

    Time frame: 6 months post intervention

    the fraction of correct responses to 12 questions that ask whether an act is considered violence

  19. Knowledge on school-related gender-based violence

    Time frame: 24 months post intervention

    the fraction of correct responses to 12 questions that ask whether an act is considered violence

  20. Gender attitudes and beliefs

    Time frame: 6 months post intervention

    a composite score for (a) gender equality beliefs based on the frequency of the different types of favorable gender equality beliefs, and (b) acceptability of IPV based on the frequency of the different types of violence girls find acceptable

  21. Gender attitudes and beliefs

    Time frame: 24 months post intervention

    a composite score for (a) gender equality beliefs based on the frequency of the different types of favorable gender equality beliefs, and (b) acceptability of IPV based on the frequency of the different types of violence girls find acceptable

  22. Pregnancy

    Time frame: 6 months post intervention

    a binary indicator coded 1 if an adolescent girl has ever been pregnant and 0 otherwise.

  23. Pregnancy

    Time frame: 24 months post intervention

    a binary indicator coded 1 if an adolescent girl has ever been pregnant and 0 otherwise.

  24. Sexual behavior - ever had sex

    Time frame: 6 months post intervention

    a binary indicator coded 1 if an adolescent girl has ever had sex and 0 otherwise.

  25. Sexual behavior - ever had sex

    Time frame: 24 months post intervention

    a binary indicator coded 1 if an adolescent girl has ever had sex and 0 otherwise.

  26. Drug use - ever used drug

    Time frame: 6 months post intervention

    a binary indicator coded 1 if an adolescent girl has ever used drugs and 0 otherwise

  27. Drug use - ever used drug

    Time frame: 24 months post intervention

    a binary indicator coded 1 if an adolescent girl has ever used drugs and 0 otherwise

  28. Health knowledge

    Time frame: 6 months post intervention

    a composite score for (a) correct answers on knowledge of SRH, menstruation, and puberty, and (b) correct answers on knowledge of nutrition

  29. Health knowledge

    Time frame: 24 months post intervention

    a composite score for (a) correct answers on knowledge of SRH, menstruation, and puberty, and (b) correct answers on knowledge of nutrition

  30. Sector - ICT

    Time frame: 24 months post intervention

    a binary indicator coded 1 if a girl engages in income-generating activities related to ICT

  31. Number of days worked

    Time frame: 6 months post intervention

    number of days a girl was engaged in paid work in the last complete month

  32. Number of days worked

    Time frame: 24 months post intervention

    number of days a girl was engaged in paid work in the last complete month

  33. Income

    Time frame: 6 months post intervention

    aggregate income earned in the last completed month

  34. Income

    Time frame: 24 months post intervention

    aggregate income earned in the last completed month

  35. Savings

    Time frame: 6 months post intervention

    amount saved in the last completed month

  36. Savings

    Time frame: 24 months post intervention

    amount saved in the last completed month

  37. Perceived social support

    Time frame: 6 months post intervention

    mean score from the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support

  38. Perceived social support

    Time frame: 24 months post intervention

    mean score from the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Adiam Hagos Hailemicheal, MSc

CONTACT

[email protected]

+17038431640

Wei Chang, PhD

CONTACT

[email protected]

+13143232771

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

World Bank

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Registry information

Official study title

Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment: Impact Evaluation of a Safe Space-Based Life Skills Training and Digital Literacy Training in Nigeria

Important dates

Study start
2023
Primary completion
2026
Study completion
2026
First posted
Jul 19, 2023
Registry last updated
Jul 19, 2023

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