Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) is a ten-year (2015-2025) research programme, funded by UK Aid from the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), that seeks to combine longitudinal data collection and a mixed-methods approach to understand the lives of adolescents in particularly marginalized regions of the Global South, and to uncover 'what works' to support the development of their capabilities over the course of the second decade of life, when many of these individuals will go through key transitions such as finishing their education, starting to work, getting married and starting to have children.GAGE undertakes longitudinal research in seven countries in Africa (Ethiopia, Rwanda), Asia (Bangladesh, Nepal) and the Middle East (Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine). Sampling adolescent girls and boys aged between 10‐19‐year olds, the quantitative survey follows a global total of 18,000 adolescent girls and boys, and their caregivers and explores the effects that programme have on their lives. This is substantiated by in‐depth qualitative and participatory research with adolescents and their peers. Its policy and legal analysis work stream studies the processes of policy change that influence the investment in and effectiveness of adolescent programming.Further information, including publications, can be found on the Overseas Development Institute GAGE website.
SN 9371 - Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence: Jordan Midline, 2022-2023In Jordan, GAGE initially recruited a sample of adolescent girls and boys in two separate cohorts (younger adolescents aged 10-12 years and older adolescents age 15-17 years) during 2018 and 2019. GAGE surveyed the adolescents, as well as their adult female caregivers. This sample includes Syrian refugees living in refugee camps, informal tented settlements (ITS) and host communities, as well as Palestinian refugees living in refugee camps and host communities, vulnerable Jordanian adolescents living in communities hosting refugees, and a small group of adolescents of other nationalities living in Jordan. Additional information about the sample and the baseline Jordan data are available in the GAGE Jordan Baseline Sample Overview and Data Use Manual (2021) included in the study documentation.In-person follow-up data collection resumed in Jordan in 2022 (after the study was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic) and Round 2 Midline data collection took place during 2022 and 2023. At the Midline GAGE attempted to resurvey all adolescents and a subset of adult female caregivers and households. Midline data collection occurred in tandem with UNICEF Cash Plus Endline data collection which is available from the UK Data Service under SN 9345.
Main Topics:
Youth; adolescence; gender; longitudinal impact evaluation of youth programming.
Simple random sample
Purposive selection/case studies
Face-to-face interview: Computer-assisted (CAPI/CAMI)
