Health Training Programme for Adolescent Girls: Lessons from India's NGO Initiative
Published By: GIDR on eSS | Published Date: October , 2015The paper examines the impact of the initiative taken by an NGO -SelfEmployed
Women’s Association (SEWA)-in Ahmedabad, a city in western
India to impart knowledge about sexual and reproductive health and build
skills that would be useful to make young girls financially independent and
empowered. Quasi-experimental design was used for data collection among
beneficiary and non-beneficiary households in two rural blocks and two cities
of Gujarat. Non-beneficiary households from the same blocks and urban
areas with similar socio-economic characteristics were selected as controls.
Author(s): Leela Visaria, Rudra Narayan Mishra | Posted on: May 05, 2016 | Views() | Download (441)