Over half of displaced civilians in humanitarian emergencies are children, and these settings pose unique threats to children’s safety with long–lasting consequences. Our study broadens the limited evidence on violence against adolescent girls in emergencies by estimating prevalence and predictors of violence among adolescent girls aged 13–14 in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and aged 13–19 in refugee camps in the Benishangul–Gumuz region of Ethiopia.
Survey data were collected from a sample of 1296 adolescent girls using Computer Assisted Personal Interview and Audio Computer– Assisted Self–Interview programming. Predictors of violence were modeled using multivariable logistic regression.