Adolescents’ capabilities and aspirations across gender and generations in Amhara, Ethiopia

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Antwerpen
cg.contributor.affiliationCGIAR GENDER Platformen
cg.contributor.affiliationOverseas Development Instituteen
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden
cg.contributor.donorDepartment for International Development, United Kingdomen
cg.coverage.countryEthiopia
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2ET
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.creator.identifierEls Lecoutere: 0000-0002-1025-742Xen
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2022.2162191en
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn1753-1063en
cg.issue3en
cg.journalJournal of East African studiesen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.ilriGENDERen
cg.subject.ilriWOMENen
cg.subject.impactAreaGender equality, youth and social inclusion
cg.subject.impactPlatformGender
cg.subject.sdgSDG 5 - Gender equalityen
cg.volume16en
dc.contributor.authorGebre, B.en
dc.contributor.authorLecoutere, Elsen
dc.contributor.authorJones, N.en
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-29T07:36:06Zen
dc.date.available2024-05-29T07:36:06Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/144136
dc.titleAdolescents’ capabilities and aspirations across gender and generations in Amhara, Ethiopiaen
dcterms.abstractInsights into the role of changing historical-political-cultural contexts and social norms in shaping adolescent girls’ and boys’ futures contributes to an understanding of human development at the intersection of gender and youth in low- and middle-income countries. This study investigates the capabilities and aspirations of adolescent girls and boys and their evolution in Amhara against the background of three successive political regimes that governed Ethiopia over the last 90 years, the Haile-Selassie imperial regime (1930–1974), the socialist military Derg regime (1974–1991), and the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (1991–2019), each with their own institutions, structures and infrastructure, and gender- and age-related relations and norms. The study adopts a capability approach with a gender and generationing development lens as a framework and relies on qualitative data collected through community- and mixed-generation group discussions. The study illustrates that, even if institutional and structural barriers became less stringent over time, cumulative gender- and age-related obstacles – some rooted in beliefs, norms, traditions and relations – hindered the expansion of adolescents’ capability success, consistently more so for girls than boys. (The threat of) gender-based violence pervasively constrains girls’ capabilities success and aspirations in spite of more formal protective institutions.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2023-02-20en
dcterms.bibliographicCitationGebre, B., Lecoutere, E. and Jones, N. 2022. Adolescents’ capabilities and aspirations across gender and generations in Amhara, Ethiopia. Journal of Eastern African Studies 16(3):472–494.en
dcterms.extentpp. 472-494en
dcterms.issued2022en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
dcterms.publisherTaylor and Francisen
dcterms.subjectgenderen
dcterms.subjectwomenen
dcterms.subjectadolescentsen
dcterms.subjectyouthen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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