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The problem
Intervention: A club providing a protective space with support, information on health and reproductive issues, and vocational training.
Who it was tested with: About 4,700 young women and girls in villages in Sierra Leone, tracked before and through the Ebola crisis..
The same group is measured before the intervention and again afterwards, with a baseline and an endline and sometimes a midline. Change is visible, but other causes cannot be ruled out.
"In highly disrupted control villages, the crisis leads younger girls to spend significantly more time with men" shows an analysis comparing control and treated villages over time, which fits a comparison-group design. The outcome is mixed because the program mostly protected younger girls but older girls in treated villages used transactional sex as a coping strategy.
The abstract gives no detail on randomisation, sample sizes by group, or effect sizes other than the 16 percentage point enrolment drop. Effects varied by age group and by how disrupted a village was, and long-term effects are not reported.
Across countries and designs
1 study · 1 country
