2015

Strong Girls, Powerful Women: Program Planning and Design for Adolescent Girls in Humanitarian Settings

Authoring Agency: Women’s Refugee CommissionPublication Date: July 2015This report is intended to help humanitarian practitioners more effectively identify and address the unique needs of adolescent girls in displacement and crisis settings. It also provides donors and policy makers, who have the ability to drive change in humanitarian programming, with guidance on how to make sustainable […]

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Refocusing Family Planning in Refugee Settings: Findings and Recommendations for a Baseline Study

Authoring Agency: Women’s Refugee CommissionPublication Date: July 2015This summary report is based on a multi-country baseline study to document knowledge of family planning, beliefs and practices of refugees, as well as the state of service provision in select refugee settings in Djibouti, Jordan, Kenya, Malaysia and Uganda. Learn More …

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Preventing Child Marriage in the Commonwealth: The role of Education

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 …

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“Our job is to Shoot, Slaughter and Kill’: Boko Haram’s reign of Terror in North East Nigeria

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 …

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Multisectoral Responses to Gender-based Violence in Mozambique

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 …

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Meeting the Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of Adolescents in School-Based Health Centers

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

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In Search of Safety and Solutions: Somali Refugee Adolescent Girls at Sheder and Aw Barre Camps

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 …

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