Child Marriage Clinical Trial
Official title:
Evaluation of an Intervention Supporting Adolescent Girls From Marginalized Communities to Complete Secondary Schooling
This cluster Randomised Control Trial is evaluating an intervention to support adolescent
girls from marginalised communities in northern Karnataka State, South India to complete
secondary school, thereby reducing their vulnerability to HIV infection from early marriage
and entry into sex work at young ages. The intervention will test innovations to address both
supply and demand side barriers to girls' completion of secondary school, and will have
long-term educational and livelihood benefits, in addition to reducing vulnerability to HIV.
School-based constraints will be addressed by improving academic outcomes through teacher
training and academic support to students; addressing gender-related and skill-based gaps
among teachers; training of local female teachers; and increasing the content knowledge of
secondary school teachers. Demand side barriers will be addressed by reducing economic
pressures that households face to withdraw girls' from school; building appreciation and
value of girls' education; building family and community accountability for school
attendance; creating safe spaces for girls and strengthening their agency; and engaging boys
in promoting and supporting girls' education.
Primary stakeholders will include teachers and students, especially adolescent girls in the
school (7th to 10 the standard) from marginalized communities. Secondary stakeholders will
include school development and management committees (SDMCs), families, boys and the
communities that are served by the schools. 80 village clusters (40 intervention; 40 control)
were randomly selected from 125 village clusters in Bagalkote and Vijayapura districts. The
intervention will be implemented with village communities and high schools in 40 village
clusters in Bagalkote and Vijayapura districts. The intervention will be implemented in
collaboration with the Department of State Educational Research and Training (DSERT),
Karnataka; the Adolescent Education Cell, Government College of Teachers' Education (CTE),
Jamkhandi; and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Education (IASE), Gulbarga.
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