No One Left Behind: Using Mixed-Methods Research to Identify and Learn from Socially Marginalised Adolescents in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Sarah Baird (), Laura Camfield (), Ashraful Haque (), Nicola Jones (), Anas Masri (), Kate Pincock () and Mahesh C. Puri ()
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Sarah Baird: George Washington University
Laura Camfield: University of East Anglia
Ashraful Haque: IPA
Nicola Jones: Overseas Development Institute
Anas Masri: Mindset
Kate Pincock: Overseas Development Institute
Mahesh C. Puri: Center for Research on Environment Health & Population Activities (CREHPA)

The European Journal of Development Research, 2021, vol. 33, issue 5, No 2, 1163-1188

Abstract: Abstract This article describes the mixed-methods approach used by the Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) research programme. It discusses how qualitative and quantitative methods can be used both in isolation and combined to learn about the lives of adolescents in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), focusing on the methodological and ethical approaches used to reach socially marginalised adolescents (including adolescents with disabilities, adolescents not in school, adolescent refugees, adolescents living in urban slums, adolescents who married as children, and adolescent mothers). We reflect on the implementation of the GAGE conceptual framework, discussing its strengths and weaknesses, and the challenges to promoting inclusive and genuinely mixed-methods research practices. While these methods have been adapted in the countries where research was undertaken, the conceptual framework provides a common methodological approach, utilising an intersectional lens. We show how mixed-methods approaches can contribute to the knowledge base on research with socially marginalised adolescent girls and boys globally, serving as an important resource for future research with young people in LMICs.

Keywords: Mixed-methods; Adolescence; LMICs; Gender; Disability; Child marriage; Refugees; Adolescent mother (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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