Girls’ Education

This policy paper focuses on the less recognized effects of gender norms on boys’ schooling, particularly at secondary level and amongst those from the poorest families. It urges the need to address boys’ disadvantage and disengagement in education.

A study on how India is playing a leading role in its use of innovative financing for development with impact bonds, an outcome-based financing structure. It outlines key lessons to be drawn for their application to education.

An article on a pilot program run in five London primary schools by a nonprofit, Lifting Limits, that provides teachers with the skills and resources to recognize and correct gender bias and to support students in challenging gender inequalities.

An evaluation of a multifaceted policy intervention in Uganda that effectively supported adolescent women's empowerment over a four-year horizon.

This podcast discusses why boys lag behind girls academically across contexts, and how it's rooted in some of the same gender norms that disadvantage girls in other measures of equity.

A report on the critical gender gaps and entrepreneurial solutions to advance the lives of women in Southeast Asia. It introduces the Women's Empowerment Framework that outlines a gender-inclusive vision across seven mutually reinforcing dimensi...