The Afghan Women’s Initiative in Support of Adolescent Girls (AWLI) programme was initiated in 2016 as a 5-year intervention to enable adolescent girls to fully enjoy their childhood and adolescence free from the risk of marriage. By engaging key actors, including adolescents and young people, the programme sought to enable adolescent girls to experience healthier, safer, and more empowered life transitions, including on decisions about their health, lifestyles, marriage and childbearing.
In specific terms, the programme aimed to:
1 Change perceptions on the acceptability of early and forced marriage (EFM) and mobilize communities to delay marriage by raising awareness of adolescent girls’ rights, the laws in place to protect them, the negative consequences of EFM, and the importance of educating girls;
2 Empower adolescent girls to make informed life choices through education, vocational and life skills training, and peer support networks; and
3 Map and document the status of adolescent girls in Afghanistan.
Summative Evaluation Purpose
The purpose of the summative evaluation is to contribute to evidence-based and risk-informed programming on increasing access of out-of-school (OoS) adolescent girls to secondary education and changing societal perceptions on child marriage practices and girls’ empowerment in Afghanistan.
The main audience for the evaluation will be the Government of Afghanistan, the U.S. Department of State – Secretary’s Office of Global Women’s Issues (S/GWI), UNICEF, programme implementing partners, programme recipient groups and other stakeholders. By rigorously measuring and demonstrating the results of the AWLI project, UNICEF would like to gather evidence to facilitate learning based on the results of the programme, provide accountability to key stakeholders, and inform the design and implementation of future projects/programmes targeted at adolescents.
In regard to learning, the evaluation results are expected to deliver evidence on t
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Type | |
Joint | No |
Partner/s | N/A |
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Agency Focal Point | Ivan Ssenkubuge |
Focal Point Email | issenkubuge@unicef.org |
Managed by Independent Evaluation Office | No |
Geographic Scope | Country |
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