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In recent years, the Population Council’s program of research on
transitions to adulthood has given special attention to access to
livelihoods, particularly for girls, during the teenage years and prior to
marriage as an important means to greater autonomy and empowerment.
Broadly defined, livelihoods includes the acquisition of skills to
become economically productive, including economic literacy, access to
savings, access to credit, and formal-sector employment.
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Council research includes comparisons of the experience
of working and
nonworking girls in a variety of settings and evaluation of
community-based interventions for girls that combine various components of
livelihoods training with reproductive health information.
Studies are underway in Bangladesh, Egypt, Guatemala, India, Pakistan,
South Africa, and Vietnam.
Projects
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Bangladesh: Schooling,
Livelihoods, and Marriage
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Bangladesh:
Savings Among Female Garment
Workers
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Egypt: Findings from a National
Adolescent Survey
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Egypt: The Social Context of Youth Employment: A
Qualitative Study of Workforce Entry and Exit
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Egypt, Jordan, Morocco:
Poverty, Job
Quality, and Labor Market Dynamics in the Middle East and North Africa
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Ethiopia:
Leave No Women Behind: A Program to Support Adolescent Girls
and Women in Rural Amhara Region, Ethiopia
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Guatemala:
Creating Opportunities for
Mayan Adolescent Girls
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India:
Livelihood Skills and
Opportunities for Girls
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Kenya:
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Kenya:
Tap and Reposition Youth (TRY)
Livelihoods Project
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Kenya, Uganda:
Safe and
Smart Savings Products for Vulnerable Adolescent Girls
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Pakistan:
Educational Opportunities in
Rural Areas
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Pakistan:
National Survey of
Young People
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South Africa:
Gender, Socioeconomic Status, and Youth HIV Risk
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South
Africa: Transitions
to Adulthood in the Context of AIDS
- Vietnam: Findings from an Adolescent Survey
Publications/Resources on
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Research by the Council's
Sajeda Amin has
been profiled in two new reports by the International Center for
Research on Women (ICRW)—Trade Liberalization and Women's
Reproductive Health: Linkages and Pathways (PDF),
and Trade Liberalization and Effects on Marriage: Case Studies from
Bangladesh, Vietnam and Egypt (PDF)
(PDFs posted with the permission of ICRW)
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Publications/Resources |
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"Broadening girls' horizons: Effects of a life
skills education programme in rural Uttar Pradesh" (2009) (PDF)
"Enhancing the benefits of girls' livelihood initiatives" (2008) (PDF)
(PDF en
français) (PDF
en español) (PDF
no português)
"Adolescence in the Kibera slums of Nairobi, Kenya" (2007) (PDF)
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