Reports

Authoring Agencies: Department for International Development and Girl HubPublication Date: March 2013This paper looks at the evidence available on the alternative  multi-dimensional educational investments designed to build a diverse range of competencies in such a way as to empower adolescent girls. It highlights innovative and effective approaches to the problem of gender inequality and discrimination […]

Authoring Agency: Council on Foreign RelationsPublication Date: July 2014This report is a collection of two previously published working papers on child marriage: “High Stakes for Young Lives” and “Fragile States, Fragile Lives”.  Learn More …

Authoring Agencies: Aide et Action, the African Network Campaign on Education for All, FAWE, Plan International, and UNICEFPublication Date: 2013This report highlights the best practices of partner organizations involved in girls’ and women’s education in West Africa by reviewing strategies, initiatives, procedures, and behaviors that have generated good results. Learn More …

Authoring Agencies: The Population Council, USAID, UNFPA, PEPFAR, and the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Ministry of Women’s, Children’s, and Youth AffairsPublication Date: 2014This brief aims to describe the most effective and cost-efficient strategies to reduce child marriage through both prevention and support programs. Learn More …

Authoring Agencies: African American Policy Forum and Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy StudiesPublication Date: 2015This report seeks to increase awareness of the gendered consequences of disciplinary policies for girls of color in the United States. It details the various ways girls of color experience inhospitable educational environments and the affects those environments have on

Authoring Agency: Plan InternationalPublication Date: 2014This report, subtitled Pathways to Power: Creating Sustainable Change for Adolescent Girls, focuses on the structural barriers that  block girls’ and young women’s pathways to power.  It looks at the way power operates within the social institution of families and communities and also within the more formal institutions of the state,

Authoring Agencies: STRIVE and Karnataka Health Promotion TrustPublication Date: 2015This report explores the barriers to girls’ education and the factors that help enable girls to attend school. It draws from in-depth interviews with adolescent girls in and out of school, their families and teachers and members of School Development Management Committees in Bagalkot and Bijapur Districts in northern

Authoring Agency: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human RightsPublication Date: February 2015A new study by the UN Human Rights Office states that attacks against girls accessing education persist and, alarmingly, appear to be occurring with increasing regularity in some countries.  The report, which reviews data on attacks on educational institutions and on girls who attempt to access

Authoring Agency: UNAIDSPublication Date: 2015This report outlines All In, a campaign for action and collaboration meant to drive better results with and for adolescents through critical changes in programs and policy. The report provides background data, a strategic framework, and suggestions for monitoring and evaluating progress in ending adolescent AIDS. Learn More …

Authoring Agency: Women’s Refugee Commission, Save the Children, UNFPA and UNHCRPublication Date: July 2015This report presents the results from a year-long collaborative exercise between the Women’s Refugee Commission and Save the Children that mapped existing adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) programs that have been implemented since 2009.  It explains best practices for ASRH programs and