Figures & Tables
Tables
- TABLE 1.
Overview of Child Marriage Prevention Program Interventions, by Model, Burkina Faso and Tanzania
Burkina Faso Tanzania Community dialogue —Facilitators recruited from communities and trained for five days.
—Facilitators mobilize a cross-section of the community in groups of 30.
—Groups attend 16 sessions.
—Sessions include information on child marriage and girls' education and devising and implementing solutions.
—Community and religious leaders recruited and trained for two days.
—Leaders deliver messages on child marriage and girls' education through routine community meetings such as religious services and community meetings.
School supplies and clubs —Mentors go house-to-house to identify unmarried girls aged 12–17.
—Parents and girls register to receive school supplies in public ceremony
—Ceremonies used to educate public on importance of girls' education and eliminating child marriage.
—Girls given school supplies once per year at the beginning of the school year.
—Supplies were notebooks, pens, pencils, mathematical sets and US$3.50 subsidy of school fees.
—Mentors go house-to-house to identify unmarried girls aged 12–17.
—Parents and girls register to receive school supplies in public ceremony
—Ceremonies used to educate public on importance of girls' education and eliminating child marriage.
—Girls given school supplies or school uniform once per year at the beginning of the school year.
—Supplies were notebooks, pens, pencils, mathematical sets or a school uniform.
—In-school girls' clubs formed including life skills and tutoring.
Conditional asset transfer —Mentors go house-to-house to identify unmarried girls aged 12–17.
—Parents and girls register to receive conditional asset (goat) in public ceremony
—Goats awarded after two years if girls remained unmarried and in school.
—Ceremonies used to educate public on importance of girls' education and eliminating child marriage.
—Mentors go house-to-house to identify unmarried girls aged 12–17.
—Parents and girls register to receive conditional asset (goat) in public ceremony
—Goats awarded after two years if girls remained unmarried and in school.
—Ceremonies used to educate public on importance of girls' education and eliminating child marriage.
Comprehensive model (all components) —All interventions above
—All interventions above
Control No intervention No intervention - TABLE 2.
Demographic Characteristics of Girls Aged 12 to 17 Years Surveyed at Baseline, by Country and Modela
Burkina Faso Total, % (N=2421) Control, % (n=504) Community dialogue, % (n=321) Education promotion,%
(n=509)Asset transfer, % (n=488) Comprehensive model, % (n=599) School Status In school 47.2 50.1 59.1b 50.8 33.0b 47.1 Out of school 52.8 49.9 40.9b 49.2 67.0b 59.9 Religion Christian 4.2 4.8 6.5b 3.7 3.3 3.5 Muslim 84.6 91.2 61.7b 92.7 87.5 82.1 Other1 11.2 4.0 31.8b 3.6 9.2 14.4 Ethnicity (% Senoufo) 67.9 62.6 65.4 36.1b 89.1b 83.1b Marital status Never married 82.2 84.1 88.2b 80.7b 66.9b 90.9b Ever married 17.8 15.9 11.8b 19.3b 33.1b 9.1b Asset based SES Low 36.1 51.8 28.7b 43.9b 12.5b 39.5b Middle 36.9 29.4 38.9b 36.2b 36.1b 43.5b High 27.0 18.8 32.4b 19.9b 51.4b 17.0b Tanzania Total (N=2133) Control (n=414) Community sensitizationb (n=398) Education promotionb (n=483) Asset transferb (n=408) Comprehensive modelb (n=430) School status In school 56.7 47.8 63.0 53.1 59.3 60.8 Out of school 43.3 52.2 37.0 46.9 40.7 39.2 Religion Christian 36.7 58.4 30.1 30.2 39.6 26.5 Muslim 55.3 17.9 64.1 64.6 57.0 71.2 Otherc 8.0 23.7 5.8 5.2 3.4 2.3 Ethnicity (% Mnamezi) 54.3 31.9 59.5 59.0 59.9 60.7 Marital status Never married 91.9 88.4 91.7 93.4 91.8 93.7 Ever married 8.1 11.6 8.3 6.6 8.2 6.3 Asset-based socioeconomic status Low 44.1 54.6 39.7 42.4 39.0 44.9 Middle 28.8 23.2 30.7 31.9 27.2 30.5 High 27.1 22.2 29.6 25.7 33.8 24.6 - TABLE 3.
Girls Aged 12 to 17 Years Exposed to the Child Marriage Prevention Interventions, at End Line, by Study Arm and Countrya
Burkina Faso, % (N=2,655) Tanzania, % (N=2,324) Community dialogue/sensitization 47.9 89.4 School promotion: school materials 30.6 90.7 School promotion: ‘Smart Girl Clubs' (Tanzania only) - 50.7 Conditional asset transfer 53.9 52.0 Comprehensive model 20.2 52.3 ↵a Weighted data and weighted numbers presented.
- TABLE 4.
Risk Association of Intervention for Burkinabe and Tanzanian Girls Having Ever Been Married at End Line, With Reference to the Control Group, by Study Arm and Age Groupa
Aged 12 to 14 Years, RRb (95% CI) Aged 15 to 17 Years, RRb (95% CI) Burkina Faso Community dialogue — 0.33 (0.19, 0.60)e Education promotion: school materials and fees — 0.99 (0.66, 1.49) Comprehensive model — 0.77 (0.52, 1.15) Tanzania Community sensitization 1.13 (0.48, 2.68) 0.74 (0.43, 1.27) Education promotion: school materials and girls' clubs 0.70 (0.30, 1.65) 0.99 (0.64, 1.53) Conditional asset transfer 0.41 (0.15, 1.15) 0.52 (0.30, 0.91)c Comprehensive model 0.33 (0.11, 0.99)c 0.59 (0.34, 1.01) - TABLE 5.
Risk Association for Burkinabe and Tanzanian Girls Being in School in the Current and Previous Years at End Line, by Age Groupa
Age 12 to 14, RRb (95% CI) Age 15 to 17, RR (95% CI) Burkina Faso Community dialogue 1.18 (1.07, 1.29)c 1.06 (0.94, 1.19) Education promotion: school materials and fees 0.99 (0.89, 1.09) 0.92 (0.80, 1.05) Comprehensive model 1.07 (0.96, 1.18) 1.03 (0.91, 1.15) Tanzania Community sensitization 1.17 (1.04, 1.32)c 0.92 (0.68, 1.23) Education promotion: school materials and girls' clubs 1.21 (1.08, 1.35)c 1.30 (1.01, 1.67)d Conditional asset transfer 1.34 (1.20, 1.48)e 1.29 (1.00, 1.68) Comprehensive model 1.28 (1.15, 1.43)e 1.00 (0.76, 1.32) Burkina Faso (US$) Tanzania (US$) Community sensitization/dialogue 12 9 School supplies and fees 13 – Girls' clubs – 18 Conditional asset transfer 33 107 Comprehensive model 60 117
