The investigators will conduct a cluster randomized controlled trial in secondary schools in Nigeria to evaluate the impact of school-based life skills training delivered in safe spaces with and without digital literacy training. This study aims to estimate the causal impacts of the training on adolescents' school performances and retention, socio-emotional skills, digital skills, health, marriage, fertility, and labor market outcomes.
Enrolled in study schools
Enrolled in Senior Secondary 1 level
Parental consent
None
Parallel
Safe Space based life skills training program
Other interventionThis is a Safe Space based life skills training program given to adolescent girls. Girls receive a 12 month long training on life skills such as negotiation skills, communication skills, sexual and reproductive health, gender-based violence and climate change.
Safe Space based life skills training program + Digital Skills
Other interventionThis is a Safe Space based life skills training program given to adolescent girls complemented with a digital literacy training program. Girls receive a 12 month long training on life skills such as negotiation skills, communication skills, sexual and reproductive health, gender-based violence and climate change. The adolescent girls in this group also receive a digital literacy training program that covers content on word processing. database management and analysis, online marketing, online safety and programming.
High school graduation
a binary indicator coded to 1 if a girl has obtained a high school diploma
School retention
a binary indicator coded to 1 if a girl is in school based on school registers
Marriage
a binary indicator coded 1 if an adolescent girl has ever been married (including cohabitation) and 0 otherwise.
Marriage
a binary indicator coded 1 if an adolescent girl has ever been married (including cohabitation) and 0 otherwise.
Goal setting capacity
a composite score based on 8 items that measure the respondent's ability to set a goal
Goal setting capacity
a composite score based on 8 items that measure the respondent's ability to set a goal
Aspiration - education attainment
a variable that indicates the level of formal education the respondent would like to complete
Aspiration - education attainment
a variable that indicates the level of formal education the respondent would like to complete
