Life skills education and livelihoods trainings for girls in Afghanistan: What difference do they make in their lives

Dr. Chona R. Echavez, Deputy Director of Research at the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, gave a lecture at Lund University on 25 May 2015 that was hosted by the Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET) and organised in conjunction with the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA). The seminar was titled ”Life skills education and livelihoods trainings for girls in Afghanistan: What difference do they make in their lives?” and used a social exclusion lens to investigate the effectiveness of a home-based rural library project among teenage girls in two provinces of Afghanistan, Kabul and Parwan. The seminar was organised in collaboration with the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA) in Lund, Sweden, and was a reflection of a research programme conducted by AREU to examine the effectiveness of  the Adolescent Reading Centres (ARCs), a programme initiated in 2007 by the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC).

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