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Amplifying the Voices of Marginalized Girls and Young Women Through the Provision of Social and Entrepreneurial Skills: Experience of the Institute of Adult Education
Abstract
This study explores the practical aspects of the Institute of Adult Education’s (IAE) programmes for empowering marginalised and vulnerable girls and young women in Tanzania through providing them with entrepreneurial skills, raising awareness of their rights and empowering them to demand that their needs are met. Purposive and random sampling were employed by the study to obtain 123 girls and women participants from five project interventions. Data was collected between 2016 and 2024 through the use of in-depth open ended interviews with 26 randomly selected girls and young women, 3 project coordinators, 5 group leaders and 2 ward education officers who were purposively selected. Other data was generated from the use of focus group discussions for a nonrandom sample of 87 girls and young women, as well as from reviewing 11 documents. Overall, the evidence from the study suggests that IAE programmes played a major role in equipping girls and young women with socioeconomic skills and the ability to voice their needs and concerns, some of which were gender-based harassment, and the right to a sustainable livelihood and quality health services. The IAE interventions helped improve the quality of the livelihoods of girls and young women in parallel with increasing the capacity of administrators responsible for implementing socio-economic interventions. In the context of similar studies on women's empowerment in various parts of Tanzania, this study contributes by providing a greater understanding of how developing entrepreneurial, vocational and social skills can help fight poverty while improving the quality of the livelihoods of girls and young women in Tanzania.
PCF11 Sub-Theme: Gender, Technology and Innovation in Open Education
Paper ID: 6921
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Tanzania
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Africa
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2025-09
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Commonwealth of Learning (COL)