Intervention and Adaptations
The intervention is a household-level Shamba Maisha intervention enhanced for adolescents and their caregivers:
- Provision of water pumps and agricultural implements for use on home-based farms.
- Agricultural training at school-based demonstration farms
- Parent-adolescent relationship strengthening sessions to improve communication.
Based on the formative work, we have adapted the Shamba Maisha intervention in the following ways:
- We will be using a lighter (2.5kg) less expensive, and more transportable water pump as part of the intervention.
- The training session will take place on a demonstration plot located at the school.
- The intervention will include two relationship-strengthening sessions targeted toward adolescent girls and their caregivers.
- The agricultural commodities will be donated to the participants rather than using a microfinance loan.
