Reports

Authoring Agency: Women’s Refugee CommissionPublication Date: July 2015Thousands of Somali refugee adolescent girls ages ten to sixteen are living in refugee camps in Ethiopia. This report details their protection and empowerment needs and priorities, programs and community-based strategies that serve them, and gaps in services from girls’ perspectives. Learn More …

Authoring Agency: Brookings InstitutePublication Date: 2015This report describes a survey of funding for girls’ education in developing countries, focused specifically on funding mechanisms, activities, and special populations targeted, as well as links to affinity groups. Learn More …

Authoring Agency: Women’s Refugee CommissionPublication Date: July 2015“I’m Here: Adolescent Girls in Emergencies” is a resource for emergency response staff. It outlines an operational approach and recommendations that can help humanitarian sectors be more accountable to adolescent girls from the start of an emergency. Learn More …

Authoring Agency: Center for International CooperationPublication Date: October 2014This report focuses on the political solutions necessary to preventing and ending violence against children.  It describes the scale of the epidemic, reviews the likely post-2015 targets that will make a difference in combating violence, and proposes ways forward on the issue, urging political leadership and global

Authoring Agency: The Council on Foreign RelationsPublication Date: April 2014This paper examines the social, economic, and cultural factors driving child marriage in order to help policymakers and civil society leaders curb, and eventually eliminate, child marriage. Learn More …

Authoring Agency: Plan InternationalPublication Date: 2014This report presents the findings from Plan International’s interviews with over 7,000 adolescent girls and boys in eleven countries.  It contains information on the methodology, results, and recommendations generated from this groundbreaking study. Learn More …

Authoring Agency: UNESCOPublication Date: 2015The 2015 Global Monitoring Report provides a complete assessment of progress towards the target date for reaching the Education for All goals and examines whether the stakeholders upheld their commitments. It considers possible determinants of the pace of progress and identifies key lessons for shaping the post-2015 global education agenda. Learn

Authoring Agency: Girl HubPublication Date: October 2013This study identifies and prioritizes the country-specific constraints to higher return investments in adolescent girls – including obstacles for girls contributing to, and benefiting from, economic growth in Ethiopia. Learn More …

Authoring Agencies: The Population Council and the Coalition for Adolescent GirlsPublication Date: 2013This report is the first of its kind to examine the social and economic determinants of internal migration for adolescent girls in developing countries, and to identify the links between migration, risk, and opportunity. Learn More …

Authoring Agency: Council on Foreign RelationsPublication Date: June 2014This paper examines the correlation between child marriage prevalence and state fragility, demonstrating that many of the countries with the highest rates of the practice are found on the top of lists such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) list of fragile states and