Evaluation of the NISITU Program: a study to determine the effect of a gender attitudes and gender based violence program for adolescents in Nairobi, Kenya

INTERVENTION: There are three arms, two receiving interventions (one with girls only, one with girls and boys/young men) and a control (no interventions). The three neighborhoods were randomly assigned to a study arm. The research assistants and implementers are not blinded to the study arm assignment. The study is a single‐centre study with all three arms being neighborhoods in the same area of Nairobi, Kenya. The intervention will include weekly sessions led by a mentor in the community. The intervention will last 9 months for boys/young men and 12 months for girls. The participants will be put in groups of 20‐25 that are segmented by age and sex. The content of the weekly sessions will include sexual and reproductive health topics, financial education, life skills and gender norms/power. In addition the participants will be facilitated to open savings accounts for adolescents. Finally, participants ages 18 and above will have their savings matched and given entrepreneurship training. The total period of follow up is one year. CONDITION: Gender attitudes, or to what extent the respondent ascribes to equitable attitudes about roles between males and females, and experience of sexual and gender based violence ; Not Applicable PRIMARY OUTCOME: Gender attitudes, measured using a survey at baseline and endline (15 months) SECONDARY OUTCOME: 1. Experience of sexual and gender based violence, measured using a survey at baseline and endline (15 months); 2. Perpetration of sexual and gender based violence, measured using a survey at baseline and endline (15 months) INCLUSION CRITERIA: 1. Girls 10‐19 years old residing in study communities 2. Boys/young men 10‐24 years old residing in study communities