TRACKING GIRLS’ AGENCY: AN OUTCOME EVALUATION OF DIVERSE PROGRAMMING AMONGST COMMUNITY-DRIVEN ORGANIZATIONS IN EAST AFRICA
In 2018, AMPLIFY Girls undertook an important initiative to identify shared outcome metrics to document collective impact of the AMPLIFY Girls’ membership on adolescent girls’ well-being. Girls Agency was identified by a diverse range of community-driven organizations, working across a range of sectors (health, education, economic empowerment) as the top priority for improving the lives of adolescent girls.
Our Longitudinal Study on Girls’ Agency offers evidence documenting how the AMPLIFY Girls’ collective of community-driven organizations (CDOs) has impacted such change for girls through an evaluation of the effects of their diverse programs on girls’ agency.
Pre-COVID-19 in 2020, AMPLIFY Girls began collecting longitudinal data on girls’ agency. We evaluated 13 programs in 4 countries, in a 12-month longitudinal study that utilizes a locally developed and validated psychometric measure of agency to investigate AMPLIFY’s collective impact on girls’ agency outcomes. The study included 894 female beneficiaries, attending programs that were classified into four categories of program dosage (low, medium, medium-high or high).
Our findings show that AMPLIFY Girls’ organizations are significantly increasing girls’ agency in every dosage category, over the course of the evaluation period.
Key findings from our study;
Medium dosage programs were associated with higher agency gains as compared to high-dosage programs, suggesting that regular, weekly, agency-focused engagement has a bigger impact on girls’ agency over course of the year than other higher-intensity delivery models that cover agency as part of a broader curriculum.
Each additional month of programming was associated with an increase in girls’ agency gains.
Our report also offers important recommendations for programs and policies targeting adolescent girls to maximize impact on girls’ Agency.
TRACKING GIRLS’ AGENCY: AN OUTCOME EVALUATION OF DIVERSE PROGRAMMING AMONGST COMMUNITY-DRIVEN ORGANIZATIONS IN EAST AFRICA
DOWNLOAD AND READ THE REPORT HERE
In case you missed it. Watch the 2 - part series of the global launch of our Agency Report below.
A HIGH-LEVEL PANEL DISCUSSION ON GIRLS’ AGENCY; A CRITICAL MEASURE FOR GIRLS’ SUCCESS - SEPTEMBER 13TH
Our first event brought together a high-level panel of practitioners and community representatives working with and around girls’ Agency in their program interventions and research. Our panel of experts amplified the cross-sectoral importance of girls’ Agency and the need to invest in programs and interventions working to develop girls’ Agency.
Meet Our Speakers: Click here to learn more about them and get links to their work on Agency.
GLOBAL LAUNCH OF THE AMPLIFY GIRLS’ AGENCY REPORT - SEPTEMBER 15TH
Our second event; the launch of our agency report, highlighted the work of our partner community-driven organizations in developing girls' Agency through their programs.
Through our agency research publication: Tracking Girls’ Agency: An AMPLIFY Girls Research Outcome Evaluation of Diverse Programming Amongst Community-Driven Organizations in East Africa, we showcased how we evaluated agency outcomes in 13 programs across four countries.
Meet our Speakers: Click here to learn more about them.
In the research presentation, we also submitted to the world, the Girls` Agency Lab (GAL) whose ultimate goal is to position the agency tool as an industry-standard method for assessing girl-focused programs and as a source of information that can be used to improve the lives of the girls served by those programs.
Keep checking our website for upcoming updates on GAL.