Quasi-experimental evaluation using confirmatory procedures: A case study of an economic and social empowerment intervention to reduce girls’ vulnerability to HIV in rural Mozambique

Holly McClain Burke, Samuel Field, Lázaro González-Calvo, Margaret A. Eichleay and Troy D. Moon

Evaluation and Program Planning, 2019, vol. 77, issue C

Abstract: Our goal was to determine whether an economic and social empowerment intervention implemented in Zambézia Province, Mozambique reduced girls’ vulnerability to HIV. We use this experience to discuss challenges of evaluating real-world interventions.

Keywords: HIV prevention; Economic strengthening; Multi-sector; Integrated development; Adolescents; Girls; Mozambique; Gender-based violence; School attendance; Sexual behavior; Quasi-experimental (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2019.101721

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