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The chapter contextualizes the study’s results by summarizing several independent evaluations of the processes and later outcomes of Tostan’s Community Empowerment Program (CEP) completed in other villages. These include evaluations by agencies such as UNICEF, Frontiers for Health (with the Population Council), Senegal’s Ministry of the Family and The Center for Research in Human Development. Generally, these studies’ findings parallel the processes and outcomes disclosed by Cislaghi, Gillespie, and Mackie’s study of the Kaolack communities. The other studies also suggest that the Kaolack communities can expect to realize more beneficial changes in later years of the program and after its departure, and that the changes tend to be stable. The authors also relate a qualitative study (master’s thesis) with very similar findings to theirs.
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Cislaghi, B., Gillespie, D., Mackie, G. (2016). Long-Term Program Results. In: Values Deliberation and Collective Action. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33756-2_6
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