Author: G. Atim, Research on Humanities and Social Sciences, Jan 2015
This paper, published in the journal Research on Humanities and Social Sciences, seeks to examine the gender specific challenges faced by the girl-child in Nigeria, despite the agreement and implementation of many landmark pieces of... Find out more
K4Health, Jan 2016
Healthy timing and spacing of pregnancy (HTSP) is an approach to family planning that helps women and families delay, space, or limit their pregnancies to achieve the healthiest outcomes for women, newborns, infants, and children. HTSP... Find out more
Authors: Jennifer Redner, Sacha Green-Atchley, Coalition for Adolescent Girls, Dec 2015
Members of the Coalition for Adolescent Girls (CAG) created this toolkit as a resource for practitioners, policy-makers, advocates, researchers, donors and governments to engage adolescent girls as partners and allies in activities and... Find out more
Africa Alliance of YMCAs, Jan 2011
This report presents the development of Africa Alliance of YMCA’s innovative ‘Transformative Masculinity in Zimbabwe’ programme, based on the Subject to Citizen (S2C) model which enables youths to transform themselves into citizens who... Find out more
UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Jan 2014
UNICEF ebook on the challenges of climate change facing children around the world.
Representing 30 per cent of the global population, children are the largest, and most vulnerable, group of people currently affected by climate change. Not... Find out more
Gender and Development Network, Jan 2014
What are harmful traditional practices (HTPs), and how can women and girls be protected from them? This report provides an overview of HTPs, explaining their causes and consequences, and bringing together examples of successful approaches... Find out more
Women's Refugee Commission, May 2014
The Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) prepared this report to highlight the plight of displaced adolescent girls across the world. It acknowledges that girls 15-years-old or younger are particularly vulnerable to sexual assaults and gender-... Find out more
Authors: R. Marcus, C. Harper, Overseas Development Institute, Jan 2014
This publication presents the analytical framework for the current phase (year two) of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) DFID-funded multi-year policy research programme, ‘Transforming the lives of adolescent girls’, which explores... Find out more
Author: A. Honwana, International African Institute , Jan 2013
Africa is the world’s youngest continent, with the majority of its population under the age of 24. Although during the past decade the continent has experienced considerable economic growth, it has not translated into job creation and... Find out more
Jan 2014
The Girl Safety Toolkit is a comprehensive guide to designing safe programmes specifically for adolescent girls. Designing safe opportunities for girls relies on understanding the experience of different groups in the context in which they... Find out more
