Egypt faces continuing and sometimes widening disparities between its urban and rural populations in key health, social, and economic indicators. Development programs often miss a disadvantaged population group caught between childhood and adulthood: rural adolescent girls. Ishraq is an intervention designed to address this problem. It is a non-formal second-chance education and social support program aiming at promoting a healthful and active transition to adulthood for disadvantaged out-of-school rural girls. It prepares them to make informed decisions about life issues such as schooling, marriage, and livelihood opportunities. This proposed project aims at carrying out a program impact evaluation of the Ishraq project using a quasi-experimental design, including baseline and endline surveys in randomly assigned control and intervention villages. The surveys will be administered to a panel of out-of-school adolescent girls who are 12-15 years old at the beginning of the intervention. Because participation in the program is voluntary, it is not possible to randomize participation. The impact of the program is assessed by comparing end-of-program responses to baseline responses across participants (by level of participation), non-participants in intervention villages, and girls in control villages. Over the next three years, Ishraq will be implemented in as many as 30 villages in three new governorates in Upper Egypt.
Project leader: Asmaa Elbadawy
Project researchers: Nadia Zibani | Rania Roushdy
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