Program 3: The West African Youth Initiative.
This peer program took place in Nigeria and Ghana.
The project worked with organizations serving youth to develop peer programs in three types of sites: secondary schools, postsecondary schools, and out-of-school settings.
Each community selected a site for the project and then chose a comparison site. The baseline and follow-up studies (two cross-sectional samples) included 100 youth from each site (100 intervention and 100 comparison). Key findings are as
follows: