TRANSITIONS TO ADULTHOOD
Livelihoods

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.

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

• Bangladesh: Schooling, Livelihoods, and Marriage

• Bangladesh: Savings Among Female Garment Workers

• Egypt: Findings from a National Adolescent Survey

• Egypt: The Social Context of Youth Employment: A Qualitative Study of Workforce Entry and Exit

• Egypt, Jordan, Morocco: Poverty, Job Quality, and Labor Market Dynamics in the Middle East and North Africa

• Ethiopia: Leave No Women Behind: A Program to Support Adolescent Girls and Women in Rural Amhara Region, Ethiopia

• Guatemala: Creating Opportunities for Mayan Adolescent Girls

• India: Livelihood Skills and Opportunities for Girls

• Kenya: Tap and Reposition Youth (TRY) Livelihoods Project

• Pakistan: Educational Opportunities in Rural Areas

• Pakistan: National Survey of Young People

• South Africa: Gender, Socioeconomic Status, and Youth HIV Risk

• South Africa: Transitions to Adulthood in the Context of AIDS

• Vietnam: Findings from an Adolescent Survey

Publications/Resources on this issue

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This page updated 25 March 2008

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