Adolescent Girls Empowerment Program
Social isolation, economic vulnerability, and lack of access to health care prevent healthy transitions from girlhood to womanhood, especially for vulnerable adolescent girls [...]
Girls Deliver: Building an Integrated Ecosystem for Adolescent Girls
Convening Diverse Stakeholders to Integrate Action for Adolescent Girls The Population Council’s GIRL Center kicked off Women Deliver 2023 with intention and action [...]
Girls Deliver: Building an Integrated, Feminist Ecosystem to Support Adolescent Girls at the Women Deliver 2023 Conference
July 10, 2023 — The Population Council’s GIRL Center, and co-hosts AFIDEP, AMPLIFY Girls, Baobab Research Programme Consortium, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, Coalition [...]
Girls Deliver: Pre-Conference on Adolescent Girls
Jump to: Recap │ About │ Thematic Roundtable Sessions │ Programme Recap Special issue of GIRL Center Newsletter from Women Deliver 2023 Blog post—Girls [...]
Promoting Opportunities for Adolescent Girls in the Sahel Region through Evidence-Informed Programming
This A3 Insights describes key elements of the Population Council’s work on the Sahel Women’s Empowerment and Demographic Dividend initiative (SWEDD), which aims [...]
Promouvoir les opportunités pour les adolescentes dans la région du Sahel grâce à une programmation fondée sur des données probantes
Cet article tiré de l'Atlas des Adolescents pour l'Action (A3) du GIRL Center décrit les éléments clés du travail du Population Council sur [...]
Adolescent Girls Prospective Cohort Study in Nigeria
The Population Council’s Girl Innovation, Research, and Learning (GIRL) Center, with funding from the Children Investment Fund Foundation, is implementing a longitudinal cohort [...]
Advancing the Agenda in Girls’ Education Research
Council researcher Nicole Haberland co-authored a recent piece in CGD Notes, a publication by the Center for Global Development (CGD), together with fellow [...]
Ishraq Program: Increasing Girls’ Protective Assets in Rural Upper Egypt
Ishraq (Sunrise) is a flagship comprehensive second-chance program to improve the educational, health, and social outcomes for adolescent out-of-school girls, 12–15 years of [...]
GIRL Center Launches Roadmap to 2030: A Path for Evidence-Based Action to Transform Adolescent Lives
Building on the success of the past five years, the Girl Research, Innovation, and Learning (GIRL) Center at the Population Council celebrates its anniversary [...]
Investing in Younger Adolescent Girls in Kenya Leads to Long-term Sustained Improvements in Education and Health
Adolescent girls in Kenya and other countries in sub-Saharan Africa face a myriad of vulnerabilities including household poverty, violence, limited education opportunities, and [...]
GirlsRead! Developing Evidence-Based Approaches to Keep Girls in School
In Zambia where only 22% of females aged 20–24 have completed secondary school versus 31% of males, literacy levels among students are extremely [...]