Girls Arise
Ages 10-14 Years
A school-based program to improve negotiation in young girls
Building resilience by building non-cognitive skills in adolescence
Girls Arise empowers adolescent girls by teaching non-cognitive skills like negotiation with people in their daily lives to support girls in making informed life choices. Such non-cognitive skills improve mental health otucomes.
Evidence Base
Building non-cognitive skills in adolescent girls positively affects mental health outcomes (Ashraf et al., 2020; Kautz et al., 2014). The Girls Arise! program is a curriculum that teaches adolescent girls to negotiate with people in authority in their lives. The randomised evaluation of the study found that girls who were taught negotiation skills had better health and education outcomes several months after the intervention, including improved school attendance, national test scores, and reduced pregnancy rates before 11th grade (Ashraf et al., 2020). The program has been scaled up in all schools in Zambia by the Ministry of Education.