Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence: Nepal Endline, 2025 Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence, 2017- GAGE
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The purpose of Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence: Nepal Endline, 2025 was to assess changes in key outcomes among a defined cohort of participants over time and to evaluate the effectiveness of the Room to Read program. A baseline survey (available from the UK Data Service under SN 8702) was conducted with 1,687 individuals to establish initial conditions across six domains: education and learning; health and sexual and reproductive health; psychosocial wellbeing; economic empowerment; voice and agency; and bodily integrity and freedom from violence. The treatment group consisted of participants enrolled in the Room to Read program, while the control group comprised individuals not participating in the program.
Follow-up surveys were conducted at midline (n = 664) (available from the UK Data Service under SN 9574) and endline (n = 574), re-interviewing participants from the original cohort to assess and compare the changes over time between treatment and control groups and across districts (Nuwakot and Tanahun) on adolescent wellbeing.
A mixed-methods approach was used. Quantitative surveys were administered through in-person interviews with girls and their caregivers by trained enumerators. Female enumerators conducted all adolescent interviews, while both male and female enumerators interviewed caregivers (primarily mothers).
Qualitative data were collected through in-depth interviews with girls, parents, boys, and key informants, including programme implementers. Experienced researchers who participated in earlier rounds of data collection conducted these interviews and reviewed prior transcripts to ensure contextual continuity and tailored questioning.
Participatory methods included timelines, community mapping, body mapping, mapping of worries, family diagrams, and life history timelines from age 10, along with focus group discussions and positive and negative outlier case studies.
Overall, the study provides comprehensive evidence on multidimensional adolescent wellbeing and informs policy and programming aimed at improving girls' development outcomes.
The study only includes the quantitative survey data.