Gender Dynamics in an Adolescent Livelihoods Program in Rural Egypt

Youth in Action (YiA) is a six-year learning and livelihood program. In partnership with The MasterCard Foundation, YiA aims to improve the socio-economic status of approximately 40,000 rural out-of-school young people, both girls and boys, in Burkina Faso, Egypt, Ethiopia, Malawi, and Uganda.

A Mid-Term Evaluation of the project highlighted that gender equality integration in YiA requires more in-depth analysis to identify gender dynamics and to assess gender sensitivity and transformation in all countries. In response to this, the Program Technical Team with the Egypt country team decided to undertake two levels of research on the gender aspect of the program:

1. A Rapid Gender Assessment; and,
2. A SUPER – the Save-University Partnership for Education Research study

This report covers the rapid gender assessment of the Youth in Action program in Egypt, and aims at understanding the gender dynamics in the program as well as assessing the gender equality mainstreaming approaches.