Authoring Agencies: Guttmacher Institute and IPPFPublication Date: 2013This guide aims to help health care providers, educators and advocates in the field of sexual and reproductive health and rights to better understand and use evidence on adolescents’ knowledge and behaviors. Learn More …
Authoring Agencies: SODIS, Emory University, Center for Global Safe Water, and UNICEFPublication Date: November 2013This report examines the scope of education and health challenges faced by girls in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Findings will inform strategies that mitigate challenges and appropriately support adolescent girls at school during menstruation. Learn More …
Authoring Agencies: Emory University, Center for Global Safe Water, and UNICEFPublication Date: November 2013In 2012 Emory University and UNICEF collaborated in research aimed to understand the range of challenges faced by girls during menstruation in urban Freetown, Sierra Leone as well as the determinants of those challenges. This report presents the methods, findings and key programmatic recommendations
Authoring Agencies: RTI International, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Blue Cross/Blue Shield of California, and Futures Without ViolencePublication Date: September 2013The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation commissioned the independent research firm, RTI International to evaluate Start Strong: Building Healthy Teen Relationships, their four-year, teen dating violence (TDV) prevention program, in collaboration with Blue Shield of California Foundation (BCSF)
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Authoring Agencies: STRIVE, Karnataka Health Promotion Trust, London School of Medicine and Tropical Hygiene, UKAID, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, University of Manitoba, and the World BankPublication Date: March 2013The document describes the implementation design of Project Samata, a project that aims to ensure girls‘ entry into secondary school, keep girls in school till 10th standard and delay
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Authoring Agency: Mercy CorpsPublication Date: February 2013Through this assessment, Mercy Corps profiled 1,800 adolescent girls from across the North West States of kano, Katsina, and Jigawa to identify key barriers and opportunities for financial inclusion and entrepreneurship. Learn More …
Authoring Agencies: Department for International Development and Girl HubPublication Date: March 2013Physical and economic assets, combined with family and community support, can provide adolescent girls with a pathway out of poverty. This matrix gives an overview of the results of an accompanying paper that analyzed programs dedicated to providing girls with the assets they need
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Author: Emily BentPublication Date: June 2013This article examines the boundaries of girls’ political participation at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). It explores the structural and conceptual limits to girls’ meaningful political participation, and brings critical attention to the problematic management of girls’ political practices in formal ‘adult’ spaces. Learn More …
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
