GAGE Act With Her-Ethiopia Evaluation
GAGE Act With Her-Ethiopia Evaluation
This study evaluates the impact of Act With Her Ethiopia (AWH-E), a gender transformative
 multi-level program that aims to improve the lives of young adolescent boys and girls.
Unequal gender norms and power dynamics are often driven and reinforced by adolescent girls'
 male peers, families, communities, and the broader institutional structures that surround
 them. Without change in gender attitudes and norms at each of these levels, improved outcomes
 for key transitions are much less likely to be sustained. Efforts to nurture change must also
 acknowledge that adolescents' opportunities and capabilities are shaped by complex,
 intersectional forces including ethnicity, caste, religion, and disability, among others.
 This multi-arm randomized control trial aims to improve the evidence base on effective
 approaches to improve multi-sectoral outcomes for girls across the following domains from the
 Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) framework: education and learning; health,
 nutrition and sexual and reproductive health; bodily integrity; psychosocial well-being;
 voice and agency; and economic empowerment.

 Specifically, the trial has four goals:

 1. To evaluate the impact of Act With Her in Ethiopia (AWH-E) - a gender-transformative
 multi-level program - on young adolescent girls' and boys' capabilities (11-13) in the
 short- and long-run across the six GAGE capability domains using a multi-arm cluster
 randomized control trial across two regions (Amhara and Oromia).

 2. To compare the impact of AWH-E to a more basic gender-synchronized program (AWH-E
 without community engagement and systems strengthening), a standalone girls' group
 program (Her Spaces), and the gender-transformative program with economic support (AWH-E
 + Asset Transfers) on young adolescent capability achievements and transitions in the
 short- and longer- terms across two regions (Amhara and Oromia).

 3. To evaluate the impact of AWH-E on young adolescent capability achievements and
 transitions in the short- and long- term in pastoralist contexts (Afar).

 4. To use mixed-methods research to understand the mechanisms driving the impact, and in
 particular what works, for whom, and why.
Inclusion Criteria:

 -  girls and boys 10-13 at time of enrollment in Act With Her Arms

 -  girls 11-13 female at time of enrollment in Her Spaces Arm

 Exclusion Criteria:

 -  None