Sisters of success : measuring the impact of mentoring and girls groups in supporting girls’ transition into adolescence and adulthood, in Liberia : baseline report executive summary (English)

This note summarizes the findings from the baseline survey for this impact evaluation, which was conducted between October 2013 and January 2014. The baseline survey was conducted with girls interested in SOS, aged 12-15, who resided in the target communities... See More + This note summarizes the findings from the baseline survey for this impact evaluation, which was conducted between October 2013 and January 2014. The baseline survey was conducted with girls interested in SOS, aged 12-15, who resided in the target communities, and whose guardians consented to the girl’s participation in SOS and the survey. In total, baseline data was collected from 2,884 girls and one guardian for each girl. These 2,884 girls form the ‘study sample.’ Half of these girls were then randomly selected to participate in the SOS program and became the ‘treatment group’, and the other half were kept as the ‘control group’. The extent to which our study results can reasonably represent the results one would expect for other girls in Greater Monrovia depends on how similar girls and households in the study sample are to a representative sample of Greater Monrovia. Analysis suggests that they are in fact quite similar.  See Less -