This groundbreaking series details the experiences and outcomes of Population Council programs to reach vulnerable adolescent girls by:
- collecting, analyzing, and disseminating evidence on the diversity of adolescent lives and experiences;
- creating innovative tools for the field;
- using safe spaces to build social, health, financial, and cognitive assets for a healthy and productive adulthood; and
- summarizing lessons learned.
The documents provide evidence and policy and programming recommendations to support adolescent girls.
Overview
- The Population Council's approach: Promoting healthy, safe, and productive transitions to adulthood (PDF) (PDF en español) (PDF en français)
Child Marriage
- Addressing the needs of girls at risk of early marriage and married adolescent girls in Burkina Faso (PDF) (PDF en français)
- Child marriage in the context of the HIV epidemic (PDF) (PDF no português)
- Costs of marriage—Marriage transactions in the developing world (PDF) (PDF en español) (PDF en français)
- Delaying early marriage among disadvantaged rural girls in Amhara, Ethiopia, through social support, education, and community awareness (PDF) (PDF en français)
- Empowering young mothers in India: Results of the First-time Parents Project (PDF)
- Programs to address child marriage: Framing the problem (PDF) (PDF en français)
- Reforming marriage practices in Bangladesh (PDF)
- Supporting married girls: Calling attention to a neglected group (PDF)
Education and Girls
- Education during humanitarian emergencies: The situation of displaced children and youth in Darfur, Sudan (PDF)
- Girls' schooling in developing countries: Highlights from Population Council research (PDF) (PDF en español)
- Investigating school quality and learning outcomes among adolescents in Malawi (PDF)
- Summary of New Lessons: The Power of Educating Adolescent Girls (PDF)
HIV and Girls
- The changing context of sexual initiation in sub-Saharan Africa (PDF) (PDF en français)
- Girls left behind: Redirecting HIV interventions toward the most vulnerable (PDF) (PDF en español) (PDF en français) (PDF no português)
- Sexuality and HIV education: Time for a paradigm shift (PDF) (PDF en español) (PDF en français)
Livelihoods
- Enhancing the benefits of girls' livelihood initiatives (PDF)
- Influencing girls’ lives: Acceptability and effectiveness of a livelihoods skill building intervention in Gujarat (PDF)
- Introducing adolescent livelihoods training in the slums of Allahabad, India (PDF)
- Tap and Reposition Youth (TRY): Providing social support, savings, and microcredit opportunities for young women in areas with high HIV prevalence (PDF) (PDF no português)
Methodologies
- Assessing equity of access in programs for young people (PDF)
- Assessing the multiple disadvantages of Mayan girls: The effects of gender, ethnicity, poverty, and residence on education in Guatemala (PDF) (PDF en español)
- Calling attention to young adolescents: Building the evidence base to inform policies and programs (PDF)
- Obtaining more accurate and reliable information from adolescents regarding STI/HIV risk behaviors (PDF)
- Taking programs for vulnerable adolescents to scale: Experiences, insights, and evidence (PDF) (PDF en español)
- Using data to identify and reach the most vulnerable young people (PDF)
Safe Spaces and Asset Building
- Addis Birhan project: Working with boys and men to address young girls' social vulnerability (PDF)
- Biruh Tesfa provides domestic workers, orphans, and migrants in urban Ethiopia with social support, HIV education, and skills (PDF) (PDF en français)
- Creating "safe spaces" for adolescent girls (PDF) (PDF en español)
- Empowering adolescent girls in rural Bangladesh: Kishori Abhijan (PDF)
- Equipping Mayan girls to improve their lives (PDF) (PDF en español)
- Expanding safe spaces, financial education, and savings for adolescent girls in Kenya (PDF) (PDF en français)
- Leveling the playing field: Building girls' sports programs and creating new opportunities (PDF)
- Piloting a safe spaces, asset-building program for adolescent girls in urban Ghana (PDF) (PDF en français)
- Reducing the social exclusion of girls (PDF) (PDF en español)
- Scaling up asset-building programs for marginalized adolescent girls in socially conservative settings: The Ishraq program in rural Upper Egypt (PDF)
- Siyakha Nentsha: Building economic, health, and social capabilities among highly vulnerable adolescents in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (PDF)
Sexual and Gender-based Violence
- Addressing sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against adolescent girls (PDF) (PDF en español)
- Addressing sexual violence and HIV risk among married adolescent girls in rural Nyanza, Kenya (PDF)
- Identifying sources of adolescent exclusion due to violence: Participatory mapping in South Africa (PDF)
- Protecting young people from sex without consent (PDF)