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We believe that when adolescent girls are educated, healthy and financially literate, they can create lasting change within communities and end generations of poverty.
2021-2024 CAG Strategic Goals
Goal 1:
The CAG provides a platform where members actively share their knowledge and best practices, facilitating mutual learning and collaboration to strengthen our collective programming and advocacy efforts.
Objective 1:
Members increase their understanding of girl-centered issues and strategies that can be used to address these issues.
Objective 2:
Members learn promising practices and approaches from fellow CAG members to enhance their capacity and expertise in their own work.
Goal 2:
The CAG is a recognized and reputable resource dedicated to amplifying girl-
centered efforts of members and the girls they work with, for increased awareness of
these priorities in decision-making spaces.
Objective 1:
CAG amplifies adolescent girl issues at major global fora and events.
Objective 2:
CAG is sought after to support important global and local advocacy efforts, be partners and collaborate on efforts/activities that seek to empower and improve the lives of adolescent girls.
Goal 3:
The CAG influences and informs policy makers, donors, and other key decision-makers to act on policy, programmatic, funding, and research priorities that advance the rights, protection of, and justice for adolescent girls, in all their diversity.
Objective 1 (GLOBAL):
Adolescent girls–especially those from the Global South– are better able to meaningfully and safely participate in global fora or processes.
Objective 2 (US):
Girls’ issues are elevated and integrated into US policies and policy discussions.
Goal 4:
The CAG increases its members’ capacity to meaningfully engage adolescent girls in their work, elevate girls’ voices and make space for their inclusion in leadership and decision-making.
Objective 1:
The CAG is a known resource for promising approaches to meaningful adolescent girl engagement.
Objective 2:
The CAG provides capacity-sharing and capacity-strengthening support to its members (and the larger field, when possible), through expertise from the CAG Steering Committee and membership organizations, regarding meaningful adolescent girl engagement.
Goal 5:
The CAG is a global and inclusive coalition that is led by leaders from a diverse set of member organizations and is actively working to increase the diversity and inclusion of its leadership and membership.
Objective 1:
The CAG assesses the impact of our current policies, working practices, and structure on the diversity and inclusivity of CAG membership and leadership.
Objective 2:
The CAG increases the diversity and representation of Global South/LMIC organizations within CAG membership.
Objective 3:
The CAG increases the diversity and representation of Global South/LMIC members with CAG leadership.
Objective 4:
Speakers and leaders of CAG activities and initiatives are from a diversity of contexts, and special priority is given to those CAG members and member staff from the Global South/LMIC
Goal 6:
The CAG achieves financial and operational sustainability.
Objective 1:
100% of CAG members pay membership dues and/or contribute in-kind services
Objective 2:
The CAG’s revenue streams are sustainable and allow the CAG the stability to continue its work.
Objective 3:
The CAG’s governance structure and policies, including its registration structure, enable the CAG to most effectively accomplish its goals.
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