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Summit is committed to a world where people can thrive and nature can flourish—a world in which one is not sacrificed for the other.
Conserving the Mesoamerican Reef Empowering Youth – Girls’ Equality FirstSustainable Cities
Why Girls?
Summit believes that the global drive to eliminate poverty, achieve social justice, stabilize the world’s population and secure the environmental health of the planet will be fully realized when society promotes leadership, health and opportunity for youth, particularly girls.
Our Priorities
ADVANCING GIRLS’ EQUALITY (6 grants) Promote Girls’ Education and Economic Opportunity End Child Marriage Engage Boys and Men
EXPANDING ADOLESCENT SRH ACCESS (10 grants) Enhance Access to SRH Services and Information Strengthen Data Gathering and Evaluation
SUPPORTING YOUTH LEADERSHIP (4 grants) Fund Central American young leaders to implement innovative projects addressing girls’ equality
and ASRH
ACCELERATING GLOBAL MOMENTUM FOR GE AND ASRH (9 grants) Expand international, Latin American and U.S. commitments supporting girls’ equality and ASRH,
ensuring youth participation
GuatemalaAbriendo
Oportunidades>5000 girls
GhanaSmart Girls
89 girls (pilot)
Burkina FasoMères
Éducatrices4000 girls and
Filles Eveillées400 girls
EgyptIshraq
1800 girls
South AfricaSiyakha Nentsha
1100 girls and boys
EthiopiaBerhane Hewan
12,000 girls (72,000 planned)
and Biruh Tesfa16,500 girls
(30,000 planned)
IndiaFirst Time Parents
1700 girlsand
Maharashtra Safe Spaces
150 girls (pilot)
Kenya and UgandaSafe and
Smart Savings2300 girls
BangladeshKishori Abhijan
15,000 girls
ZambiaAdolescent Girls Empowerment
Program12,000 girls (planned)
Council’s Programs for Adolescent Girls
en la escuela
unida o casada
con hijos
Fuente: Hallman, K., S. Peracca, J. Catino, M.J. Ruiz. 2005. “Causes of low school achievement and early transition to adulthood in Guatemala.” New York: Population Council.
Investing before it is too late
Intensificar esfuerzos
Adelante de la curva
porc
en
taje
edad
About the• Launched on October 10, 2008
• Cumulative financing is ~ U.S. $22m.
• Partners are include the Nike Foundation, governments of Afghanistan, Australia, Denmark, Jordan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Liberia, Nepal, Norway, Rwanda, Southern Sudan, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
• Each program is individually tailored to the country context, with a common goal of discovering what works best to help adolescent girls and young women succeed in the labor market.
• Programs target disadvantaged young women 16-35
Components• Training in either business development skills for self employment, or in technical and vocational skills for wage employment.
• Most projects include life skills training to help girls deal with everyday challenges and improve skills that are linked to labor market outcomes.
• Some programs also provide personalized support and job intermediation services to help girls connect to labor market opportunities.
• Each pilot includes a rigorous impact evaluation.
Learning from practice
Design Lessons
Selecting and recruiting adolescent girls
How to make youth employment programs “girl friendly”
Life skills in the AGI
Business development skills in the AGI
Incentive schemes in the AGI for improving results
Implementation Lessons
Working with girls in difficult settings
Selecting vocations for girls
Engaging the private sector
Monitoring and Evaluation Lessons
What does the AGI measure and how?
Setting up an M&E system
Program description• LIBERIA EPAG
• Implemented by Ministry of Gender and NGOs, funded by Nike through WB AGI. (Now scaled up w/ SIDA support.)
• Target girls age 16-27 with job or business skills training, placement/start-up support, life skills.
• UGANDA ELA• Run by BRAC, funded by Mastercard & Nike.• Provide girls 14-20 with safe space, life skills training, short
livelihoods training based on local market.
• NEPAL AGEI• Run by the Nepal Employment Fund, funded by Helvetas, Swiss
Development Corporation, and DfID.• Provide girls 16-24 with 134 separate training events, targeted
towards poorer, more vulnerable women.
Results• LIBERIA EPAG
• Employment up 30%, incomes up 80%, savings up.• Positive impacts on self-confidence, satisfaction, food security.
• UGANDA ELA• Employment up 30%, income up $32 over 6 months.• Childbearing down, contraceptive use up, incidence of forced sex
down.
• NEPAL AGEI• Employment up 40%, non-farm • employment up, incomes up 15%.• (other results pending).
Abriendo Oportunidades: a comprehensive peer education model
ObjectiveStrengthen adolescent girls assets and increase their life skills
Strategies:
• Identify safe spaces in communities
• Strengthen peer networks
• Exposure to alternative models
• Provide access to training and recreation (girls and their mothers)
• Partner with public and private sector
• Promote education, health, financial literacy, prevention of gender-based violence through a cascade leadership approach
Participants
Youth Leaders(+
100)
Interns (+ 50)
- Age 14 to 18- Participate in quarterly, 1
week education camps- Live in the community- Continue their education- Receive a monthly stipend- Become local role modelsAges 8-12 and 13-17
Participate in weekly, 2 hour sessions lead by Youth Leaders
(+ 4,000)
Cascade leadership approach: an effective strategy to learn and train
Mentors (+10)
- Age: 16 to 24 - Paid internship/scholarship- Intensive 3 month training- Have completed middle
school - Live in the community- Must enroll in highschool or
university- Contact with alternative
models
- Age: 22 to 26 - Former interns- Trained on M&E- Have completed one or
more years of university- Speak local languages- Become alternative models
for younger participants.
Repair the Social Contract: Public-private partnerships hand in hand with girls to build preventative health, social, and economic assets
secondary school
youth center
community center
development committee
roads and market
playing field
national savings
healthcenter
+
Build assets that allow girls to make informed decisions
Adolescent Pregnancy in Honduras
Of the 938,301 adolescent girls in Honduras aged 15 to 19, 24% have been pregnant at least once.
Encuesta Nacional de Demografía y Salud ENDESA 2011-2012 - Honduras
ENDESA 2005 ENDESA 2011-201222% 24%
Honduras has a youth population of 5,231,588
65%
35%
Youth Population
Older than 30
Younger than 30
INE. 2010.
Pregnancy rate by age, 2005-2007
Age 2005 2007 + O -15 5.4 6.3 +16 11.7 16.7 +17 23.5 24.9 +18 31.6 34.0 +19 40.2 40.1 -
ENDESA 2005 VRS. 2011-2012
Education 2005 2011-2012 Total
No education 46.3 45.8 +
Elementary 1-3 42.1 47.2 +
Elementary 4-6 29.3 36.0 +
High school 10.8 19.9 +
College 2.2 0.9 -
Relationship Between Educational Attainment and Pregnancy
ENDESA 2005 VRS. 2011-2012
Adolescent Pregnancy by Residential Area
Residential Area 2005 2011-2012 +/-Urban 17.7 19.2 +Rural 26.0 29.3 +
ENDESA 2005 VRS. 2011-2012
AO communities: past, current and scale-up region
To date:50 communities5 departments6 linguistic regions
Scale up: • At least 75
communities in Q’eqchi’ language areas.
• Belize and Peten
The most vulnerable across the Central American region
Rural, female, indigenous, 0ut of school
Common challenges:• Access to
secondary education and health services
• Addressing adolescent pregancy
• Livelihoods
• Belize: average age 1st pregnancy: 17• Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala: around 1/3
of all women give birth before age 20.• Honduras: access to RHS services amongh
youth: 11.5%• Nicaragua: fertility rates: 2.8 (urban,
highschool), 4.9 (rural, no schooling)• Guatemala: Highest unmet need for FP:
25.6% (ages 15-19), 29.6% (indigenous, versus 15.1% non indigenous)
• Belize: Enrollment in school: national average 85.9%, Mayan girls 36%
Regional gaps
• Belize: average age 1st pregnancy: 17• Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala: around 1/3
of all women give birth before age 20.• Honduras: access to RHS services amongh
youth: 11.5%• Nicaragua: fertility rates: 2.8 (urban,
highschool), 4.9 (rural, no schooling)• Guatemala: Highest unmet need for FP:
25.6% (ages 15-19), 29.6% (indigenous, versus 15.1% non indigenous)
• Belize: Enrollment in school: national average 85.9%, Mayan girls 36%
Regional gaps