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Gendered Transitions to Adulthood in Ethiopia

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Navigating the transition to male and female adulthood in Ethiopia

What different challenges do young men and young women face as they grow into adults?

What supports their efforts to pursue the adult lives they choose and value?

Which youth are most at risk of being left behind and how can they best be supported?

Over the course of 2020, a team of Young Lives researchers in Ethiopia and Oxford are collaborating to answer these questions with funding support from UNICEF Ethiopia and DFID Ethiopia’s Strategic Research Fund. 

In 2019, researchers interviewed young men and women, aged 18 and 25, in ten rural and urban Young Lives communities to understand how gender, location, and poverty affected their diverging life paths.

Five of these sites are part of Young Lives qualitative longitudinal research making it the fifth wave of data collection. We have interviewed the same group about their lives five times since 2007.

The analysis is exploring eight inter-related aspects of their journey into adulthood and will produce papers and policy briefs on these topics: school to work transitions; work and employment; educational pathways; experiences of divorce and separation among youth; migration and mobility; young parenting; fertility decision-making; and gender and youth resilience.  This work is a second phase of research analysis and builds on work undertaken in 2019 (see Publications above ) which was funded by UNICEF Ethiopia. 

Project Information

Funder: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, UNICEF Ethiopia

Timeline: 2020

PI: Gina Crivello (Oxford), Alula Pankhurst (Ethiopia)

Ethiopia Research Team

Yisak Tafere 
Nardos Chuta
Agazi Tiumelissan 
Kiros Birhanu

Contact: younglives@qeh.ox.ac.uk

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Impact of Social Norms on Transitions to Adulthood in Ethiopia - latest Young Lives Illustration
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28 Jan 2021
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Aspirations and Education in Ethiopia; new Young Lives illustration
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25 Jan 2021
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School to Work Illustration
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14 Jan 2021
Publications
Slow Progression: Educational Trajectories of Young Men and Women in Ethiopia
19 Jan 2021
Working paper
“I have dropped out three times”: Why Young People in Ethiopia Often Repeat Years in School
19 Jan 2021
Policy paper
Who Decides? Fertility and Childbearing Experiences of Young Married Couples in Ethiopia
12 Jan 2021
Working paper
Neglected experiences: Fertility and childbearing among young people in Ethiopia
12 Jan 2021
Policy paper
“How could he help me?”: The gendered experiences of young parents in Ethiopia
6 Jan 2021
Policy paper
“Caring for a baby is a mother’s responsibility” Parenting and Health Service Experiences of Young Mothers and Fathers in Young Lives Communities in Ethiopia
6 Jan 2021
Working paper
What Work After School? Challenges of Labour Market Transitions in Ethiopia
7 Dec 2020
Policy paper
"I want to work independently”: Challenges for Young People in Ethiopia Looking for Decent and Satisfying Work
7 Dec 2020
Policy paper
Love Alone is Not Enough: The Challenges of Separation and Divorce Among Young Couples in Ethiopia
3 Dec 2020
Policy paper
Jobs, Businesses and Cooperatives: Young Men and Women’s Transitions to Employment and Income Generation in Ethiopia
2 Dec 2020
Working paper

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