GIRL/ Gender Innovation and Regional Learning


Reporting Organization:IBRD Trust Funds - World Bank
Total Budget ($CAD):$ 20,000,000
Timeframe: March 31, 2021 - March 31, 2025
Status: Actif
Contact Information: Unspecified

Partner & Funder Profiles


Reporting Organization


IBRD Trust Funds - World Bank

Participating Organizations


Unspecified

Funders (Total Budget Contribution)


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Location


Country - Total Budget Allocation


Benin - $ 2,400,000.00 (12.00%)

Mali - $ 2,200,000.00 (11.00%)

Cameroon - $ 2,200,000.00 (11.00%)

Chad - $ 2,200,000.00 (11.00%)

Burkina Faso - $ 2,200,000.00 (11.00%)

Guinea - $ 2,200,000.00 (11.00%)

Mauritania - $ 2,200,000.00 (11.00%)

Niger (the) - $ 2,200,000.00 (11.00%)

Côte d’Ivoire - $ 2,200,000.00 (11.00%)

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Areas of Focus


Other - Total Budget Allocation


Law, Governance & Public Policy (50.00 %)

Sexual & Gender-based Violence (25.00 %)

Health - Total Budget Allocation


Reproductive Health & Rights incl. Maternal Health (25.00 %)

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Description


This project aims to support the empowerment of adolescent girls by addressing discriminatory norms and attitudes that contribute to gender inequalities, like child, early and forced marriage, early school drop-out, and issues surrounding adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). This is done by generating evidence to guide the design and implementation of laws, policies and programs at sub-national, national and regional levels that address inequalities in girls’ education and access to healthcare and SRHR services. Project activities include: (1) piloting initiatives to improve the enabling environment for adolescent girls’ empowerment. This includes influencing health workers’ beliefs around women and girls’ rights to access contraception and addressing norms, attitudes and beliefs around women and girls’ empowerment through interventions with parents, community and religious leaders, boys and men in communities; (2) conducting detailed research, such as impact evaluations and experimentation, including for the initiatives piloted by the project. This generates evidence on effective approaches to addressing discriminatory norms and attitudes; and (3) strengthening the capacity of decision-makers to use evidence to enhance the quality of policies and programs. The findings and evidence directly informs, guides, influences, and leverages the regional Sahel Women Empowerment and Demographic Dividend project, implemented by the World Bank. The GIRL project aims to benefit 40,000 girls through the pilot interventions, and research, directly, and indirectly, benefit more than 500, 000 girls through other programs informed by the evidence generated.

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Target Population


Gender and age: Unspecified
Total Direct Population: Unspecified
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Outputs


Unspecified

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Results & Indicators


Expected Results


The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) Increased women’s and girl agency and ability to make their own sexual and reproductive life choices, and control over important life decisions; and (2) Increased rights based policy making around women’s and girls sexual and reproductive agency across the Sahel and beyond.

Achieved Results


Results achieved as of May 2024 include: (1) finalized the pilot design to assess the impact of digital training and coaching on retaining midwives and delivering services to adolescents in Mali; (2) designed a randomized control trial to evaluate the impact of integrating safe spaces with midwives trained in sexual and reproductive health in Mali; (3) 250 health professionals used a mobile application created with sexual and reproductive health content to provide 25,000 girls with sexual and reproductive health education in Côte d’Ivoire,; (4) completed an evaluation of the impact of Covid-19 on adolescent girls in Sub-Saharan Africa; (5) completed and published a paper on the gendered impact of the pandemic on adolescent school enrollment; and (6) established a regional legal platform to support the creation of a space where countries can engage in peer-learning and exchange of good practices to strengthen national and regional legal frameworks for women’s and girls’ empowerment.

Indicators


  • None Selected
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Associated Projects (If applicable)


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