Authoring Agencies: Royal Commonwealth Society and Plan UKPublication Date: 2015This report shares best practices from governments and civil society organizations for keeping girls in school and provides recommendations for governments, ministries of education, and the Commonwealth secretariat as to how to use education to help end child marriage. Learn More …

Authoring Agency: Family Planning 2020Publication Date: 2015Family Planning 2020 (FP2020) is a global partnership that supports the rights of women and girls to decide, freely and for themselves, whether, when, and how many children they want to have. This report, Partnership in Progress, shows that the initiative is making steady progress toward its goal of enabling

Authoring Agency: Amnesty InternationalPublication Date: April 2015This report details the specific abuses inflicted by Boko Haram on young women and girls in northeast Nigeria and argues Boko Haram has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity. It also offers recommendations for the international community can effectively respond to such actions. Learn More …

Authoring Agency: Human Rights WatchPublication Date: October 2014This report from Human Rights Watch documents how child marriage severely curtails girls’ access to education and exposes them to exploitation and violence, including marital rape and female genital mutilation, and reproductive health risks. Learn More …

Authoring Agencies: UNICEF, U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency, Together for Girls, and the Collaborating Centre for Operational Research and EvaluationPublication Date: 2013This report details the findings of the National Baseline Survey on Life Experiences of Adolescents performed in Zimbabwe in 2011. Learn More …

Authoring Agency: Pathfinder InternationalPublication Date: January 2015This technical brief explores Pathfinder’s experience pioneering a multisectoral approach to primary and secondary prevention of gender-based violence (GBV) across two projects in Mozambique. It highlights implementation experience, lessons learned, and next steps for Pathfinder’s GBV programming in Mozambique. Learn More …

Authoring Agency: International Center for Research on WomenPublication Date: 2014Based on four case studies in Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Egypt, and India, this report from the International Center for Research on women shows that girl-focused programs expand girls’ ability to make strategic life choices by providing them with access to critical resources and help prevent child marriage.

Authoring Agency: Guttmacher InstitutePublication Date: 2015This policy review examines how controversy around teen sexual activity and opposition to making contraceptive services available to teens have played major roles in blocking school-based health centers (SBHCs) from providing sexual and reproductive health services. It details specific steps that policymakers can take to enable SBHCs to provide much needed health

Authoring Agency: Guttmacher InstitutePublication Date: December 2014In line with recent efforts to use quantitative indicators to monitor contraceptive programs’ fulfillment of human rights, the authors sought to explore whether an index could assess the state of adolescent women’s reproductive health and rights.  This paper describes the development of such an index, the trends that emerged, and remaining

Authoring Agency: International Center for Research on WomenPublication Date: 2014In-depth research on gender, power and masculinity and various programmatic efforts to engage men have made it abundantly clear that men and boys must be an integral part of efforts to promote gender equality. The study’s findings emphasize that in India, masculinity, i.e., men’s controlling behavior and