Expanding Programs to Address the Vulnerabilities of Adolescent Girls in Rural and Urban Ethiopia
Agency Funded: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Amount Funded: $1,500,000 over 36 months
Approved: March 2006
Through UNFPA, this project aims to expand appropriate and effective mechanisms to protect and support girls at risk of forced child marriage and married adolescent girls in in the rural Amhara Region as well as socio-economically vulnerable adolescent girls at risk of exploitation in urban settings in towns of Bahir Dar and Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. This project targets adolescent girls in order to build social networks of adolescent girls for mutual support and social change and to give them hard and practical skills including literacy, life skills, reproductive health knowledge, and skills for economic development – and at the same time engages the communities in which they live to create support for their education and training.
The Population Council seeks to improve the well-being and reproductive health of current and future generations around the world and to help achieve a humane, equitable, and sustainable balance between people and resources. The Council’s website offers, among other information, books, peer-reviewed journals, working papers, and newsletters and reports highlighting Council research activities. The Transitions to Adulthood webpage offers research findings and project profiles specific to child marriage.
International Center for Research on Women (www.icrw.org)
The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) is dedicated to improving the lives of women in poverty, advancing equality and human rights, and contributing to broader economic and social well-being through research, capacity building and advocacy on issues affecting women's economic, health and social status in low- and middle-income countries. ICRW’s adolescence webpage offers research updates and project profiles specific to child marriage.
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