Abdiboru

  • P Project/Program

I Inactive

Key Information

Abdiboru aims to address structural determinants (agency, government institutions, and social norms) that act as barriers to empowerment in order to improve health, education, and economic outcomes for adolescent girls. While key program elements have been implemented previously in Ethiopia to great effect, this program is highly innovative because it follows a cohort of 10-14-year-old girls over 3 years, combines cross cutting proven approaches, and it tests the relative and combined effects of a focus on girls’ agency and control, government responsiveness, and changes in social norms for girls’ empowerment. Abdiboru is being implemented in four districts of the West Hararghe zone of the Oromia region, covering a population of 730,000. The intervention arms are as follows: 1) control/delayed intervention (in year 5); 2) government-level responsiveness and increased life skills of in-school adolescent girls; and 3) combined arm which includes improved government level responsiveness, girls’ agency, and addressing community social norms.


Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Ethiopia

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2016 - 2019

Partner(s)

Government of Ethiopia, Addis Continental Institute of Public Health (ACIPH)

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

COVID-19 Response

Not changed

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas


Cross-cutting areas

Not applicable or unknown


Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls (both in school and out of school), Youth

Age

10 - 14

School Enrolment Status

Not applicable or unknown

School Level

Not applicable or unknown

Other populations reached

  • Other community members - female
  • Other community members - male
  • Youth

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • General awareness-raising/community engagement

Life skills education

  • Sexual and reproductive health (including puberty education)

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Increased literacy
  • Increased years of schooling

Cross-cutting goals

  • Improved health - other
  • Improved sexual and reproductive health
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Reduced child marriage