Reports

Authoring Agency: Women’s Refugee CommissionPublicationAuthoring Agencies: Equality Now, the Royal Colleges of Nursing, Midwives, and Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and UNITEPublication Date: November 2013The recommendations contained in this report demonstrate a commitment to raise awareness of the need to intervene early to prevent FGM in the United Kingdom.  The report calls for health and social care […]

Authoring Agencies: Population Council and CHETNAPublication Date: 2014This study, drawing on a baseline survey conducted in 90 villages in Surendranagar district in Gujarat, explored the school experiences of adolescent girls in the last year of primary school and the first year of secondary school. It assessed the extent to which a supportive environment for schooling was available to these girls

Authoring Agency: Women’s Refugee CommissionPublication Date: July 2015This report is intended to help humanitarian practitioners more effectively identify and address the unique needs of adolescent girls in displacement and crisis settings. It also provides donors and policy makers, who have the ability to drive change in humanitarian programming, with guidance on how to make sustainable

Authoring Agency: George Washington University Global Women’s InstitutePublication Date: 2013This brief provides a concise overview of select school-based interventions that aim to prevent violence against women and girls (VAWG) or improve knowledge and attitudes that perpetuate VAWG.  It highlights effective, promising, and emerging interventions and examines multiple forms of violence against women and girls. Learn More …

Authoring Agency: Pathfinder InternationalPublication Date: June 2014This article contributes to a growing body of evidence around scale-up of Adolescent-Friendly Contraceptive Services, which can inform the implementation and sustainable scale-up of HIV and other services for adolescents. Learn More …

Authors: Jeffrey B. Bingenheimer of the Milken Institute for Public Health, George Washington University, and Elizabeth Reed of the School of Medicine, University of California at San DiegoPublication Date: December 2014In this article, Jeffrey B. Bingenheimer and Elizabeth Reed present data collected from seven hundred female respondents who participated in a longitudinal study of behavioral

Authoring Agency: Policy CuresPublication Date: 2014Based on a global survey of funding, this report provides a comprehensive picture of global funding patterns for research and development into reproductive health products in developing countries. The report states that funding for reproductive health products is too low to match the needs of women and girls in developing countries and notes

Authoring Agency: Women’s Refugee CommissionPublication Date: June 2015This report documents the results of a multi-year project dedicated to uncovering the untold stories of the millions of refugee girls whose voices are almost never heard. Learn More …

Authoring Agency: Women’s Refugee CommissionPublication Date: July 2015This summary report is based on a multi-country baseline study to document knowledge of family planning, beliefs and practices of refugees, as well as the state of service provision in select refugee settings in Djibouti, Jordan, Kenya, Malaysia and Uganda. Learn More …

Authoring Agencies: Department for International Development and Girl HubPublication Date: March 2013This paper provides a critical evaluation of the evidence available on how social norms can be used to promote behavior change. It synthesizes key evidence on integrated approaches to improving girls’ access to health care, economic assets, and education and preventing violence as a