Life Skills Programme for Girls and Young Women

Description

Educated women have fewer and healthier children, are more likely to send their children to school, have higher earnings, and are more likely to contribute to the development of the civil society and help protect their environment. The Centre for Development an Population Activities (CEDPA) Partnership Project for Girls and Young Women implementing the New Horizons project, supported by USAID, intended to increase the enrolment of girls in primary school, to encourage them to complete their primary education, to strengthen practical life skills and raise the self-esteem of illiterate adolescents.

New Horizons is a life skills program for girls and young women in Egypt who are not enrolled in the formal education system. The results of the program include an increase in health, education, and community participation of its participants. There is also a similar program for in-school boys and young men. To date, 22,884 girls and young women in Upper Egypt have received scholarships and training from this USAID-supported program.

Services

NSCE has been commissioned to conduct a study to evaluate the impact of the Partnership Project and the Toward New Horizon project, dubbed the Impact Evaluation Study Of CEDPA Activities.

The purpose is to test the following hypothesis:

• Girls and young women who participated in project activities are likely to demonstrate a more positive attitude and
  behavior towards education, health and the status of women in the community;
• Girls and young women who have participated in the program are likely to demonstrate higher self confidence, and
  communication with parents and family members and others in the community;
• Families of program participants are likely to demonstrate a more positive attitude and behavior towards education
  for girls, health of girls and women, health, and the status of girls and life options of their children.

Evaluation of the impact of the projects on the attitude and behavior of girls, young women and their families towards education, social status and reproductive health using different research tools: Literature Review, Focus Group Discussions, Rapid Rural Appraisal, Individual interviewers, Data Collection, Entry & Analysis and Writing Final Report.