Document Type
Guide/Toolkit
Publication Date
2014
Abstract
The Adolescent Girls Empowerment Program (AGEP) in rural and urban Zambia aims to build social, health, and economic assets of adolescent girls. A safe spaces component is at the core of AGEP. Girls groups, under the guidance of a female mentor from the same community, provide a safe and supportive learning environment. The meetings are critical in building social assets for vulnerable girls—including friendships, self-esteem, trusting relationships with adults, and social support. The training content over the course of the year varies from sexual and reproductive health and life skills to financial education and nutrition training. This collection is focused on nutrition and sessions are: nutrition needs for adolescent girls, the role of food in the body, anaemia, nutrition for pregnant adolescents, infant feeding from birth through six months, and young child feeding and growth monitoring.
DOI
10.31899/pgy9.1038
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Population Council. 2014. "Nutrition education curriculum for the Adolescent Girls Empowerment Program (AGEP)." Lusaka: Population Council.
Project
Adolescent Girls Empowerment Program; GIRL Center
Included in
Family, Life Course, and Society Commons, Gender Equity in Education Commons, International and Community Nutrition Commons