Providing Microfinance and Social Space to Empower Adolescent Girls: An Evaluation of BRAC’s ELA Centres
Published By: BRAC on eSS | Published Date: July, 10 , 2008Lately there has been a surge in the variety of approaches to assist the
adolescents, specially the girls, in building up their lives and livelihoods. With
financial assistance from Nike Foundation, BRAC started combining financial
and social interventions in 2005 by setting up ELA (Employment and Livelihood
for Adolescents) Centres for the ELA microfinance group members. This study is
intended to assess the usefulness of this combined approach. It is based on a
panel dataset of ELA Centre participants and non-participants, which tried to
capture changes using qualitative tools.[Working Paper No. 3]
Author(s): Rizwana Shahnaz, Raihana Karim | Posted on: Jun 10, 2010 | Views(1145) | Download (1064)