Adolescent Girls Initiative - Kenya

The Adolescent Girls Initiative-Kenya (AGI-K) is testing layered packages of interventions that reflect the complex challenges and underlying cultural barriers that adolescent girls in Kenya face. AGI-K is a randomized controlled trial implemented in two sites – in urban Kibera, an informal settlement in Nairobi, and in rural Wajir, a remote, underdeveloped area in Kenya along the Northeast border with Somalia. AGI-K has reached more than 6,000 girls ages 11-15 over two years. AGI-K is testing the following four layered packages: 1) Violence Prevention, which includes community dialogues on the prevalence and persistence of violence against girls, coupled with funded community projects to address these challenges. 2) Violence Prevention + Education, which also includes a cash transfer conditional on school enrollment at the start of each term and regular attendance throughout the term. 3) Violence Prevention + Education + Health, in which girls meet in safe space groups once a week with a female mentor who delivers a health, life skills, and nutrition curriculum. 4) Violence Prevention + Education + Health + Wealth Creation, in which girls also participate in additional financial education sessions integrated into the “safe space” curricula and open savings accounts or home banks. The intervention ran for two years, from mid-2105 to mid-2017. A two-year follow up round of data was collected in mid-2019 and the final results will be out in the first quarter of 2020.