Health Training Programme for Adolescent Girls: Lessons from India's NGO Initiative

Leela Visaria and Rudra Narayan Mishra ()

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Abstract: The paper examines the impact of the initiative taken by an NGO -SelfEmployed Women’s Association (SEWA)-in Ahmedabad, a city in western India to impart knowledge about sexual and reproductive health and build skills that would be useful to make young girls financially independent and empowered. Quasi-experimental design was used for data collection among beneficiary and non-beneficiary households in two rural blocks and two cities of Gujarat. Non-beneficiary households from the same blocks and urban areas with similar socio-economic characteristics were selected as controls.

Keywords: Adolescent health; SEWA; health training; menstrual hygiene; contraception; beneficiary; households; socio-economic characteristics; Gujarat; skills; young girls; financially independent (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-05
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