Post-Intervention Gendered Impacts and Moderating Factors of a Government Cash Plus Intervention for Adolescents in Tanzania

Post-Intervention Gendered Impacts and Moderating Factors of a Government Cash Plus Intervention for Adolescents in Tanzania

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Reducing poverty (including multidimensional poverty) and gender inequality can improve social development outcomes. However, most intersectoral interventions for adolescents to date are focused on adolescent girls (and not boys), have been implemented by non-governmental actors with limited generalizability and potential for scale-up, and studies generally do not examine sustainability of impacts post-intervention. We find that, 22-month post intervention, a cash plus intervention targeted to adolescents in Tanzania reduced self-perceived HIV risk among males and females and lifetime sexual violence risk among females and increased sexual and reproductive health services utilization among males. Other protective impacts detected at earlier rounds (on gender equitable attitudes, depressive symptoms, contraceptive and HIV knowledge, among others) were not sustained post-intervention. Findings suggest that future programs may need to provide different combinations of programming or intervene at more levels of the social ecological model to effect more lasting change.

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SSM - Population Health, Vol. 29, March 2025, No. 101760

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ANA-130967