The Adolescent Girls Initiative (AGI) pilot was implemented by the Government of Rwanda as part of an eight-country initiative led by the World Bank aimed at promoting the economic empowerment of adolescent girls. The development objective of the Rwanda AGI was to improve employment, incomes and empowerment of disadvantaged adolescent girls and young women (aged 16-24), and to test two integrated models for promoting these goals. The Rwanda AGI had three components: Component I: Skills Development and Entrepreneurship Support, Component II: Scholarships to Resume Formal Education, Component III: Project Implementation Support This evaluation focused exclusively on Component I, which was carried out by the Workforce Development Authority (WDA), under the supervision of the Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion (MIGEPROF). It was delivered sequentially to roughly 2,000 vulnerable girls and young women in three equal-sized cohorts between 2012 and 2014. The project was targeted geographically in four districts (Gasabo, Kicukiro, Gicumbi, and Rulindo), where nine vocational training centers (VTCs) provided the training. The three objectives of the evaluation were: To examine how well the AGI project delivered the planned activities To assess the usefulness of the training provided To measure the change in beneficiary outcomes before and after the AGI project. The evaluation was conducted on the second cohort of beneficiaries, from which 160 girls were randomly selected to participate in baseline and endline surveys.
