Follow-up study of migrant adolescent girls in domestic service who participated in the first cohort of the Filles Éveillées ( Girls Awakened ) program

Circular migration (from rural to urban areas and back) among adolescents is common throughout West Africa, with the principle motivation being the search for economic opportunities, including domestic work. The evidence base on adolescent migration and domestic work is fairly thin. Evidence on programmatic effectiveness generally ends at program completion and does not follow adolescents over time. The current study follows a subsample of migrant adolescent girls in domestic service in urban Burkina Faso who participated in the first cohort of the Filles Éveillées (Girls Awakened) pilot program. Filles Éveillées was designed to provide migrant girls in domestic service with opportunities to build social networks and develop skills necessary for adulthood. Over a period of 30 weeks, participants attended weekly group meetings led by female mentors and developed life skills as well as skills in health, including sexual and reproductive health, and financial capabilities. As noted in this technical report, the program’s first cohort was implemented from 2011–2012. A pre-test and post-test was conducted with program participants, and a subsample was interviewed one year after program completion

From decoding a graph to processing a multimodal message: Interacting with data visualization in the news media

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Using data to see and select the most vulnerable adolescent girls

Investment in adolescent girls is crucial in the developing world where a large proportion of the population is under the age of 24. It is critical to protecting rights to schooling, bodily integrity, and legal and chosen marriage, and to reducing fertility while increasing productive capacity. Making adolescent girls visible is essential so that investments can be targeted toward those at the highest risk of the poorest outcomes. This guide seeks to find and target vulnerable adolescent girls and shape policy context. It provides guidance on resources and tools that can reveal the internal diversity of adolescents, identify the onset and extensiveness of vulnerability, demonstrate where there are high concentrations of vulnerable girls, assess girls’ share of youth resources, and identify communities and vulnerable girls for program participation. The guide is one of a set of five GIRLS FIRST! Perspectives on Girl-Centered Programming thematic reviews addressing the five strategic priorities defined in the UN Joint Statement, “Accelerating Efforts to Advance the Rights of Adolescent Girls,” which supports governments and partners in advancing key policies and programs for the hardest-to-reach adolescent girls

Designing, implementing, and evaluating a targeted, evidence-based intervention for a vulnerable subgroup of girls: A case study of the Filles Éveillées ( Girls Awakened ) pilot program for migrant adolescent girls in domestic service in urban Burkina Faso

Investing in adolescent girls is crucial in the developing world where a large and growing proportion of the population is under the age of 24. Research has demonstrated that adolescent girls face serious challenges around the time of puberty including withdrawal from (and lack of safety in) public spaces, loss of peers, leaving school, pressure for marriage or liaisons as livelihood strategies, and internalization of harmful gender norms. Investments need to be made at critical moments in early adolescence. While policymakers and development professionals have acknowledged the need to make investments in the poorest girls in the poorest communities early enough to make a difference, less is known about how to go about reaching them. This case study demonstrates the steps involved in designing, implementing, and evaluating a targeted, evidence-based intervention for a vulnerable subgroup of adolescent girls. Drawing upon an example of a Population Council research and intervention initiative for migrant adolescent girls in domestic service in urban Burkina Faso—known as Filles Éveillées (Girls Awakened)—we illustrate a process that can be replicated in other settings with other vulnerable subgroups of adolescent girls

Modelling of a Braitenberg inspired guidance system for an Autonomous surface vessel (ASV)

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Communicating health advice on social media: A multimodal case study

Social media represent new arenas for health communication. Platforms such as YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok provide unique opportunities for health workers to build understanding, engagement, and trust among a broad and young audience. At the same time, such platforms demand of health workers a careful balance between social closeness and professional distance. The article is based on a case study in which the award-winning Norwegian psychologist Maria Abrahamsen’s practice of health communication on Instagram is studied through the lens of multimodal discourse analysis. Following a bottom-up method, the study starts with a close reading of a single Instagram post, where video and written verbal text interact closely. The entire account is then studied as a complex case of mediated health communication. Conclusively, after a discussion of genre implications, the article suggests possible solutions to key challenges concerning the followers’ engagement and trust

Bromobis(Diethyldithiocarbamato)(4-Methoxyphenyl)Tellurium(IV)

The crystals of the TeIV complex p-CH3OC6H4Te(Et2NCS2)2Br are isomorphous with those of the the iodine and mixed iodine/bromine analogues previously investigated. The structure is pentagonal bipyramidal at the Te atom with four S atoms [Te-S 2.618-2.721 (1) Å] and the Br atom [Te-Br 2.943 (1) Å] in equatorial positions. The p-methoxyphenyl group is axial [Te-C 2.147 (3) Å]. The second axial position is approached by a Br atom of a centrosymmetrically related complex [TeBr 3.423 (1) Å, C-TeBr 173.1 (1)°] so that the molecules are joined into centrosymmetric pairs by this weak secondary coordination

Evaluation of Filles Eveillees ( Girls Awakened ): A pilot program for migrant adolescent girls in domestic service

The Filles Éveillées (Girls Awakened) program was designed to increase social networks and skill building among migrant adolescent girls in domestic service in urban Burkina Faso. The program was piloted over two cycles: 2011–2012 in Bobo Dioulasso, and 2012–2013 in Ouagadougou and Bobo Dioulasso. According to this evaluation report, process evaluation was conducted between the two cycles to assess program effectiveness and suggest improvements for program structure, implementation, and content before launching the second cohort. Changes resulting from this process evaluation included simplifying the sexual and reproductive health program content; reordering the modules and introducing financial capabilities earlier so that girls have ample opportunities to practice savings behavior; and reinforcing the importance of sessions that bring community service providers—such as nurses and financial service providers—to the girls to teach them about local resources. These course corrections likely enhanced the effectiveness of the Filles Éveillées program for the 2012–2013 cohort

‘Cake is not an attack on democracy’: Moving beyond carceral Pride and building queer coalitions in post–22/7 Norway

The pieing of a far-right politician at the 2016 Oslo Pride parade was met with condemnation from the media and within Norway’s LGBT movement. The pie-thrower, a member of the European queer-anarchist band Cistem Failure, was charged with committing an “attack on democracy,” a part of the criminal code strengthened after the 22/7 terrorist attacks in 2011 and sentenced to imprisonment followed by deportation. This article reflects critically on the dominant narratives of this event as well as Pride politics more generally, and places them in context with Norway’s increasing mainstreaming of right-wing populism and liberal LGBT organizations’ dependence on state protection and inclusion policies. Drawing on Emma Russell’s critical historical and queer optic, Jin Haritaworn’s regenerative analytic, and Cistem Failure’s alter-narratives, I argue that Norway’s growing “security governance” promotes a divisive othering and obscures the violent exclusion of “undeserving” queers; this presents a deeply disturbing challenge to the democratic right to protest and public dissent. In turn, I advocate for the urgency of a transformative, coalitional politics of radical care - unafraid of confrontation and refusal, committed to the everyday acts of leaving nobody behind and to envisioning a world otherwise.submittedVersio