Evaluation report
Results from the Basmeh & Zeitooneh (B&Z) intervention to empower adolescent girls and young women at risk of child marriage and poor reproductive health among the Syrian refugee population in Lebanon
Rima Mourtada ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-sonnet-5-5This report presents the final evaluation of a program run by the NGO Basmeh & Zeitooneh in the Shatila and Burj al Barajneh refugee camps in South Beirut. The program aimed to reduce the social isolation of vulnerable adolescent girls and young women aged 10–21. It sought to give them the skills and knowledge to avoid child marriage and adolescent pregnancy and to move into adulthood in a healthy way. It focused on out-of-school girls aged 10–15 and married girls aged 13–21. The text available here describes the program and its timing but does not report any results.
Key points
- The program was a social, health, and economic asset-building program for adolescent girls and young women aged 10–21.
- It was delivered in the Shatila and Burj al Barajneh refugee camps in South Beirut.
- It targeted two groups at higher risk: out-of-school girls aged 10–15 and married girls aged 13–21.
- Round 2 ran May–September 2022 and Round 3 ran November 2022–March 2023. Both built on Round 1 (May–September 2021), which was also run with Population Council.
- The report presents results from the most recent iteration of the program.
Limitations
Only the introductory text is available, so no study design, sample size, outcome data or findings can be judged. We cannot say whether the program reduced child marriage or adolescent pregnancy.
Abstract
This report presents results from the final evaluation of a social, health, and economic asset-building program implemented by the Lebanon-based non-governmental organization (NGO) Basmeh & Zeitooneh (B&Z) and aimed at reducing the social isolation of vulnerable adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) aged 10–21 years old living in the Shatila and Burj al Barajneh refugee camps in South Beirut. The program sought to help girls gain the skills and knowledge they need to avoid child marriage and adolescent pregnancy and to make a healthy transition to adulthood despite the numerous challenges they face. The program focused on two sub-populations of girls at heightened risk of poor health and social outcomes: 10–15- year-old girls who are out of school and 13–21 year-old girls who are married. The report presents findings from the most recent iteration of this program, which took place in two phases—Round 2 between May and September 2022 and Round 3 between November 2022 and March 2023—and built upon a previous round of the program—Round 1—which was also conducted in partnership with Population Council (between May and September 2021).
Findings the Hub has extracted
Each claim below is labelled by its type of design and links back to this report.
- Intervention
- A social, health, and economic asset-building program to reduce social isolation and build skills and knowledge, delivered by Basmeh & Zeitooneh in partnership with Population Council
- Population
- Adolescent girls and young women aged 10–21 in the Shatila and Burj al Barajneh refugee camps, including out-of-school girls aged 10–15 and married girls aged 13–21
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