The impact of the Adolescent Girls Empowerment Program (AGEP) on short and long term social, economic, education and fertility outcomes: a cluster randomized controlled trial in Zambia

• Main Authors: Karen Austrian (Author), Erica Soler-Hampejsek (Author), Jere R. Behrman (Author), Jean Digitale (Author), Natalie Jackson Hachonda (Author), Maximillian Bweupe (Author), Paul C. Hewett (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Adolescent girls in Zambia face risks and vulnerabilities that challenge their healthy development into young women: early marriage and childbearing, sexual and gender-based violence, unintended pregnancy and HIV. The Adolescent Girls Empowerment Program (AGEP) was designed to ad...