Agency
AMPLIFY Girls’ commitment to timely, community-driven research is exemplified by our on-going work. Currently, AMPLIFY Girls is working on the following research initiatives on Agency:
Tracking Girls’ Agency
Tracking Girls’ Agency: An Outcome Evaluation of Diverse Programming amongst community-driven organizations in Eastern Africa. Download the report.
Ongoing RCT Study
Investigating the Impact of Agency on Girls’ Educational Outcomes - A mixed methods experimental evaluation of the Binti Shupavu Project in Tanzania. Learn more about the ongoing study.
Measuring Girls’ Agency
Measuring Girls’ Agency in East Africa - Co-Creating contextually specific tools for evaluation: Lessons from the AMPLIFY Girls Collective. Full Paper & Summary.
Community-driven organizations know which outcomes are critical for the girls in their communities. Read the newest publication by Drs. Aubryn Allyn Sidle and Brenda Oulo from GAL consulting and learn how AMPLIFY Girls partners have worked on agency as an outcome measure for adolescent girls’ life skills programs.
COVID-19
Responding to the COVID19 pandemic and the projected educational losses among marginalized communities, from October 2020 - March 2021, AMPLIFY Girls undertook a four country study in Eastern Africa to center the voices of local organizations and the girls they serve. Understanding challenges from a local perspective is paramount to creating effective strategies to support adolescent girls.
AMPLIFY Girls’ community-driven research focused on:
1. establishing comprehensive empirical evidence on the barriers to school return among adolescent girls following prolonged school closures occasioned by the coronavirus pandemic; and
2. Identifying promising best practices in locally driven remote learning strategies in East Africa.