Girl Empower: Studying the Impact of Mentorship, Asset Building, Caregiver Discussion Groups, and Cash Transfers on Reducing Girl's Vulnerability to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse

Adolescent Behavior Clinical Trial

Official title:

Girl Empower: Studying the Impact of Mentorship, Asset Building, Caregiver Discussion Groups, and Cash Transfers on Reducing Girl's Vulnerability to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03756467
• Other study ID #: 645
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: July 12, 2017
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2018

Study information

• Verified date: November 2018
• Source: Population Council
• Contact: Kelly Hallman, Ph.D.
• Phone: 212-339-0687
• Email: khallman[@]popcouncil.org
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Girl Empower (GE) is a program designed to equip girls with the skills and experiences necessary to make healthy, strategic life choices and to stay safe from sexual exploitation and abuse.

Description:

The GE program is unique in its approach because it addresses girls' needs holistically. The girls' activities will take place in girl-only safe spaces located in their communities and contains the following components: Mentorship: girls have access to older female mentors. Mentors both provide weekly group-based and one-to-one interaction with girls as well as teach them critical skills; Asset building: Girls will have access to life skills and financial literacy training. This includes setting up savings accounts so girls practice their financial literacy skills, Monthly caregiver discussion groups among guardians of program girls, Capacity building and training of local health and psychosocial service providers to provide quality services to survivors of gender-based violence Intervention communities will either receive the GE program alone or the GE program with the plus small cash transfers to the girls' families as an incentive to attendance in weekly sessions (GE+).

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 2200
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2018
• Est. primary completion date: December 31, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 13 Years to 14 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Healthy, eligible girls aged 13 to 14 years of age.

Exclusion Criteria:

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Adolescent Behavior
• Sexual Violence

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Girl Empower Program
Girl Empower (GE) encourages adolescent girls living in rural areas of Nimba County, Liberia to partake in weekly mentored community-based workshops on life skills, selfcare, and financial literacy.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Liberia	University of Liberia	Monrovia

Sponsors (4)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Population Council	City University of New York, International Rescue Committee, World Bank

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Liberia, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Sexual Violence Index	The primary outcome of interest is an index of sexual violence at the individual level.; The index is composed of four questions in the endline survey instrument. The construction of the index, and a detailed description of its components is described in the pre-analysis plan (PAP) document uploaded under the "Analysis Plan" in this registration.	40 weeks