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10. Special population groups (Youth, Persons with Disability, etc.)
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The era of global information that we are currently facing promises a variety of amazing sophistication in the
implementation of data communication technology. Various innovations in the field of information systems will be
very useful if applied primarily to overcome various obstacles due to limited space and time, especially in dealing
with adolescents aged 10-24 years who are dynamic and have a high curiosity. Data on the number of adolescents
aged 10-24 years in West Java in 2018 has reached 10,849,182 young people. This study discusses the use the
Generasi Berencana/GenRe Apps on smartphones as one of the efforts to achieve a healthy and responsible
condition of adolescents through the empowerment of adolescents. This study uses a Pretest-posttest control
group design method with one treatment. After completing the treatment of the two groups , a qualitative study
Focus Group Discussion to the youth in Bogor Regency by asking opinions from youth. This study conclude that
teenagers who use the genre apps have a better understanding and argued that the application should be
maintained and enhanced its content regarding issues of adolescent reproductive health with through strategies
tailored to the conditions of each region and the support from many sides material and non-material.
1616 Assessing the long-term effects of participation in a gender transformative
programme in adolescence: A follow-up study of young men in Bihar, India
AJ Francis Zavier, KG Santhya
Population Council, New Delhi, India
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10. Special population groups (Youth, Persons with Disability, etc.)
Abstract
While a few recent interventions to change gender norms among young men have shown that exposure to gender
transformative programmes resulted in a change in their gender role attitudes, the extent to which newly
internalised gender egalitarian notions are sustained over time remains unexplored in India. Drawing on a follow-
up study of participants in a gender transformative programme, the paper assesses whether the positive shifts in
gender role attitudes and abhorrence of violence against women and girls observed among intervention
participants were sustained over time. Out of the total 1,033 participants of the original cluster randomised trial
conducted during 2013-15, we re-interviewed 853 respondents in 2019. We used Generalised Estimating Equation
model to examine the sustained impact of the intervention.
Findings show that positive shifts in gender role attitudes and abhorrence of VAWG observed among programme
participants soon after the completion of the trial were sustained over time, and that exposure to the intervention
reduced the perpetration of violence within intimate partnerships.
Findings highlight the importance of exposing boys and young men to gender transformative programmes and
ensuring their regular attendance to reduce VAWG in India.
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