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Archive | 2012

Empowering adolescent girls : evidence from a randomized control trial in Uganda

Munshi Sulaiman; Imran Rasul; Oriana Bandiera; Niklas Buehren; Robin Burgess; Markus Goldstein; Selim Gulesci

This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Empowering adolescent girls : evidence from a randomized control trial in Uganda, conducted in the year between June and September 2008, in Uganda. The study observed that nearly 60 percent of Ugandas population is aged below 20. This generation faces health and economic challenges associated with HIV, early pregnancy and unemployment. Whether these challenges are due to a lack of information and/or vocational skills is however uncertain. The program significantly increases self-reported entrepreneurial skills. There is a 4.2 percentage point increase in likelihood of participation in income earning activities, which represents a 32 percent increase. Almost all of this increase is seen in self-employment activities. Funding for the study derives from Bank Netherlands, MasterCard, Nike, The Gender Action Plan, improving institutions for Pro-Poor Growth at DFID.


Archive | 2017

Women's Empowerment in Action: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa ¤

Oriana Bandiera; Niklas Buehren; Robin Burgess; Markus Goldstein; Selim Gulesci; Imran Rasul; Munshi Sulaiman

Women in developing countries are disempowered: high youth unemployment, early marriage and childbearing interact to limit their investments into human capital and enforce dependence on men. We evaluate a multifaceted policy intervention attempting to jump-start adolescent womens empowerment in Uganda, a context in which 60% of the population are aged below twenty. The intervention aims to relax human capital constraints that adolescent girls face by simultaneously providing them vocational training and information on sex, reproduction and marriage. We find that four years post-intervention, adolescent girls in treated communities are 4.9pp more likely to engage in income generating activities, corresponding to a 48% increase over baseline levels, and an impact almost entirely driven by their greater engagement in self-employment. Teen pregnancy falls by a third, and early entry into marriage/cohabitation also falls rapidly. Strikingly, the share of girls reporting sex against their will drops by close to a third and aspired ages at which to marry and start childbearing move forward. The results highlight the potential of a multifaceted program that provides skills transfers as a viable and cost effective policy intervention to improve the economic and social empowerment of adolescent girls over a four year horizon.


International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches | 2008

Community Based Change Ranking to Assess the Impact of a Programme for the Ultra Poor

Imran Matin; Munshi Sulaiman

Abstract Studies of poverty dynamics relying solely on household income–expenditure surveys can overestimate transient poverty and underestimate persistence of poverty, especially for the poorest. In this study, we make use of an approach that relies on community based change ranking to explore various directions and levels of change experienced by almost 6000 households living in over 100 communities. We find that changes are initial condition dependent and that improvement, even small ones, are far less likely to happen over time for the poorest. An intervention that combines promotional and protective supports can bring such improvements in the livelihood of the ultra poor. Understanding the extent of and the forces that drive such smaller movements is important since it is the cumulative dynamics that ultimately lead to the larger movements of ascent, descent and trap, especially for the ultra poor.


Archive | 2010

Impact Assessment of CFPR/TUP: A Descriptive Analysis Based on 2002-2005 Panel Data

Munshi Sulaiman; Mehnaz Rabbani; Vivek A. Prakash


Journal of the European Economic Association | 2010

Intentions to Participate in Adolescent Training Programs : Evidence from Uganda

Oriana Bandiera; Robin Burgess; Markus Goldstein; Selim Gulesci; Imran Rasul; Munshi Sulaiman


Archive | 2007

4. Imagining microfinance more boldly: Unleashing the true potential of microfinance

Imran Matin; Munshi Sulaiman; M. A. Saleque


Archive | 2011

Can entrepreneurship programs transform the economic lives of the poor

Oriana Bandiera; Robin Burgess; Selim Gulesci; Imran Rasul; Munshi Sulaiman


Archive | 2010

Targeting Effectiveness of CFPR/TUP in Scale-up Environment

Imran Matin; Munshi Sulaiman


Archive | 2010

Microfinance Engagements of the ‘Graduated’ TUP Members

Munshi Sulaiman; Imran Matin; Proloy Barua; M Shahadat Hossain Siddiquee; Vidya Iyer


Archive | 2007

Social Capital and Economic Well-being

Munshi Sulaiman; Farhad Ameen

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Imran Rasul

University College London

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Oriana Bandiera

London School of Economics and Political Science

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Robin Burgess

London School of Economics and Political Science

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Selim Gulesci

London School of Economics and Political Science

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Vittorio Bassi

University College London

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