Girls’ Education

Research conducted in Northern Nigeria that found that acquiring vocational skills alone was not enough to empower girls or form the basis of an alternative to early marriage. It recommends a holistic program incorporating life skills and counseling.

An article about the UNGEI webinar on measuring gender attitudes, focusing on pilot projects in Sierra Leone and Cote D’Ivoire with Save the Children’s Jane Leer and a project in Haryana state, India with the CEO of Breakthrough, Sohini Bhattacharya.

This brief provides a rationale for engaging men and boys in ending child marriage and synthesizes some key lessons learned, guiding principles, recommendations, and evidence gaps.

A helpful list of statistics by Catalyst related to women's attainment and achievement in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields.

A toolkit by young people for young people to guide the design, implementation, and monitoring of an effective national advocacy action roadmap to bring about positive policy-specific changes to improve the health and well-being of adolescents.

An article that shares the stories of girls living in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya.