We would like to thank CARE Malawi for entrusting the Centre for Development Management with the responsibility to conduct the baseline. Specifically, we would like to thank the Thoko Mwenyekondo and staff of CARE USA for providing us with technical and logistical support during the entire period of the study. We would also like to thank all the supervisors and research assistants for their commitment and hard work who ensured that we had quality data. Special gratitude should be extended to all the learners and teachers that took part in the research in one way or the other, without them this report would have not been possible. Centre for Development Management P.O. Box 31810 Capital City Lilongwe 3 Plot 15/31 February, 2017 DEDICATION This report is dedicated to the late Mr Felix Kamanga, a dedicated, intelligent and hardworking CDM Researcher, who managed the entire data collection process for the Umodzi baseline study, but God decided to take him from us and this earth on 1st January 2017, in that fatal car accident in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. May His Soul Rest in Peace Centre for Development Management, 2017 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS USED AGE Adolescent Girls’ Empowerment AIDS Acquired immune deficiency syndrome CDM Centre for Development Management
We would like to thank CARE Malawi for entrusting the Centre for Development Management with the responsibility to conduct the baseline. Specifically, we would like to thank the Thoko Mwenyekondo and staff of CARE USA for providing us with technical and logistical support during the entire period of the study. We would also like to thank all the supervisors and research assistants for their commitment and hard work who ensured that we had quality data. Special gratitude should be extended to all the learners and teachers that took part in the research in one way or the other, without them this report would have not been possible. Centre for Development Management P.O. Box 31810 Capital City Lilongwe 3 Plot 15/31 February, 2017 DEDICATION This report is dedicated to the late Mr Felix Kamanga, a dedicated, intelligent and hardworking CDM Researcher, who managed the entire data collection process for the Umodzi baseline study, but God decided to take him from us and this earth on 1st January 2017, in that fatal car accident in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. May His Soul Rest in Peace Centre for Development Management, 2017 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS USED AGE Adolescent Girls’ Empowerment AIDS Acquired immune deficiency syndrome CDM Centre for Development Management
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