Adolescent girls face multiplechallenges that restrict their horizons, often having tomake decisions about employment and their fertility at anearly age, and with limited formal education opportunities.With lower levels of education than men, girls are oftenless equipped for work. Additionally, a plethora of expecteddomestic responsibilities limit their time forincome-generating opportunities. A range of genderinnovation lab (GIL) studies across Sub-Saharan Africa havedemonstrated the potential of girls’ empowerment programs tochange the life trajectories of young women even across avariety of contexts. These programs typically combinecommunity-based girls clubs, life-skills training,vocational training, and sometimes financial literacy andmicrocredit access, for young women. In addition toimplementation in countries such as Uganda and Tanzania,these programs have also helped create a buffer fromconflict for young women in South Sudan and during the Ebolacrisis in Sierra Leone - showing that they are beneficialeven across fragile contexts.
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