Authoring Agency: World Bank GroupPublication Date: 2014This report distills vast data and hundreds of studies to shed new light on constraints facing women and girls worldwide, from epidemic levels of gender-based violence to biased laws and norms that prevent them from owning property, working, and making decisions about their own lives. Learn More …

Authoring Agency: Forum for African Women Educationalists Uganda  and the International Center for Research on WomenPublication Date: 2014From 2013 to 2014 ICRW and the Forum for African Women Educationalists Uganda (FAWEU) partnered to answer several questions about girls’ education in two districts in the West Nile sub-region of Northwestern Uganda.  This report details their findings. Learn More …

Authoring Agencies: The Health Policy Project, USAID, the Public Health Foundation of India, MEASURE Evaluation, and the International Center for Research on WomenPublication Date: October 2014This review presents evidence showing how gender-integrated programming influences health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: in particular, reproductive, maternal, neonatal, child, and adolescent  health, HIV prevention and AIDS response, 

Authoring Agencies: The MasterCard Foundation, Room to Read, FHI 360, and Amenons Nos Filles a l’EcoleThrough a partnership formed at the Clinton Global Initiative and with support from The MasterCard Foundation, Room to Read, FHI 360, and Amenons Nos Filles a l’Ecole (ANFE) undertook a six-month collaborative research study to investigate the social and educational factors

Authoring Agency: United Nations Population FundPublication Date: 2014An unprecedented 1.8 billion youth are alive today and they are the shapers and leaders of our global future.  UNFPA’s flagship report focuses on the potential of today’s youth to transform the future, if they are given the proper tools and support. Learn More …

Authoring Agencies: Human Rights Project for Girls, Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality, and Ms. Foundation for WomenPublication Date: 2015This report details some of the ways in which the juvenile justice system fails young girls, the majority of whom are impoverished girls of color. It offers policy recommendations to dismantle the so-named “abuse to

Authoring Agency: Advocates for YouthPublication Date: 2015This factsheet highlights a variety of adolescent girl-centered issues such as lack of education, unwanted pregnancy, and intimate partner violence.  It also details the potential benefits of supporting adolescent girls and provides a great summation of the importance of adolescent girls to the process of international development. Learn More …

Authoring Agency: Women’s Refugee CommissionPublication Date: July 2015The Women’s Refugee Commission completed a research mission to Tanzania in October 2012 with the purpose of gaining an understanding of Congolese refugee adolescent girls’ protection and empowerment needs. This report contains the findings and recommendations that resulted from that research. Learn More …

Authoring Agency: Heshima KenyaPublication Date: 2013Heshima Kenya’s advocacy team conducted formal research highlighting the lived experiences of more than fifty female refugees and asylum seekers. This report conveys the many ways that refugees need to be protected and empowered, instead of persecuted and coerced and sets forth the myriad of issues refugee women and girls currently face in Kenya, while also conveying their plights

Authoring Agencies: Population Council and UNICEFPublication Date: 2015Drawing on three nationally representative datasets on Tanzanian adolescents, this report maps the diversity of adolescents, context of sexual activity, exposure to violence and sexual risk behaviors, and maternal and reproductive health. It has wide-ranging implications for Tanzanian policies and programs. Learn More …