Intervention to Improve Developmental and Health Outcomes for Female Adolescents

"the ANZANSI that combines Family Economic Empowerment (EE) with Multiple Family Groups (MFG). Family EE includes: 1) Workshops on asset building, future planning, and protection from risks; 2) Child Development Account (CDA); and 3) Family income-generating/microenterprise promotion (IGA) component:~MFG a family-centered, group-delivered, evidence-informed intervention designed for children and adolescents whose families struggle with poverty and associated stressors. The MFG is based on building family support through opportunities for parents and children to communicate in a safe setting with other families who have shared experiences, and allow each family to learn from one another. MFG builds protective factors for healthy parent-child relationships while addressing familial, social and community stressors and barriers to adolescent girls' well-being. Both adolecsnt girls and their caregivers will receive the intervention."