ABOUT THE POPULATION COUNCIL
Millennium Development Goals

3. Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women

• Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015

The Population Council explores how age, gender, socioeconomic status, schooling, family conditions, living arrangements, civic participation, and livelihood skills and capacities shape the transition to adulthood. Staff members focus especially on adolescents at risk of child marriage and those living in the path of the HIV pandemic. Researchers explore ways to decrease violence against women, reduce female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), and lower rates of sexual coercion.

 

 

 

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Selected Projects

• Bangladesh: Schooling, Livelihoods, and Marriage (1997–ongoing)
• Egypt: Ishraq: An Innovative Program for Girls (2001–ongoing)
• Ethiopia: Berhane Hewan: Supporting Married and Unmarried Girls in Rural Ethiopia (2004–2008)
• Guatemala: Creating Opportunities for Mayan Adolescent Girls (2002–2006)
• Kenya: Managing and Preventing Female Genital Cutting (FGC) Among the Somali Community (2005–2007)
• Nigeria: Addressing Child Marriage in Northern Nigeria (2005–2009)
• Pakistan: Educational Opportunities in Rural Areas (1997–ongoing)
• South Africa: Post-rape Care and HIV Post-exposure Prophylaxis in Rural South Africa (2004–2008)
• South Africa: Gender, Socioeconomic Status, and Youth HIV Risk (2004–2007)
• Vietnam: Findings from Recent and Ongoing Youth and Family Studies (1999–2007)

See Also

• Child Marriage/Married Adolescents

• Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting

• Gender and Family Dynamics

• Safe Spaces

• Schooling

Offsite Link

• INTACT Network, a Population Council initiative to enhance communications and research utilization in the FGM/C field