Adolescent girls' capabilities in Ethiopia: the state of the evidence

This review brings together key evidence from over 500 thematic studies on Ethiopian adolescent girls aged 10-19

From:
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Published
10 August 2020
Country:
Ethiopia
Document Type:
Country Report
Theme:
Social Change
First published:
20 December 2017
Authors:
Stavropoulou, M and Gupta-Archer, N

Abstract

Produced as a resource to inform GAGE programming and to be used by researchers, programme designers and policy makers, this rapid country evidence review brings together key evidence from over 500 thematic studies on Ethiopian adolescent girls (aged 10-19). As a living document to be updated as necessary, it lays out what is known 바카라 사이트”and identifies what is not known 바카라 사이트” about girls바카라 사이트™ capability development as delineated by the six domains of the GAGE conceptual framework: education and learning; bodily autonomy, integrity and freedom from violence; sexual and reproductive health, health and nutrition; psychosocial wellbeing, voice and agency, and economic empowerment.

Our mapping found that the evidence on Ethiopian girls바카라 사이트™ capabilities is broad, albeit especially focused on particular topics (e.g. child marriage, education, and sexual and reproductive health) and some regions of the country (e.g. Amhara). It also found that younger adolescent girls have been largely ignored in favour of their slightly older peers.

Recent 바카라 사이트” and accelerating 바카라 사이트” progress has resulted in highly uneven capability development for many adolescent girls in Ethiopia. For example, while girls are now more likely than boys to attend school, their academic performance continues to lag, in part due to the reality that they are expected to manage the lion바카라 사이트™s share of household chores. Similarly, while rates of child marriage are plummeting, at least for the youngest girls, not only do marriage and motherhood continue to be seen as central to girls바카라 사이트™ trajectories, but in some areas adolescent-driven child marriage 바카라 사이트” a result of increasing access to voice and agency 바카라 사이트” is becoming more common even as arranged marriages become less so.

This review is an output of the Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) programme

Citation

Stavropoulou, M. and Gupta-Archer, N. (2017) Adolescent girls바카라 사이트™ capabilities in Ethiopia: the state of the evidence. London: Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence.

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