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Let Girls Learn!
Let Girls Learn! sets out Save the Children’s global policy position on girls’ education and realising gender equality in and through education. It provides governments with suggestions, recommendations and data that can assist in the design of education
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Spotlight Series: Ending child marriage for gender equality
Gender-based violence against girls: Ending child marriage and accelerating progress for gender equality Save the Children’s Spotlight series is a collection of country briefings to support national-level advocacy through the latest data and analysis of p
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Achieve Gender Equality and Empower All Woman and Girls: Implementing the pledge
This policy brief presents case studies and recommendations on achieving Gender Equality in the context of the 5th edition of the Progressing National SDGs Implementation report (2020), an annual, independent assessment of the Voluntary National Review
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The Global Girlhood Report 2020: How COVID-19 is putting progress in peril
2020 was supposed to be a once-in-a-generation opportunity for women and girls. The year when governments, businesses, organisations, and individuals came together to develop a five-year plan to accelerate progress for #GenerationEquality. Then COVID-19 s
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Pan-African Girlhood Report 2020: How COVID-19 is putting progress in peril
In Africa, the Protocol to the African Charter on the Rights of Women in Africa (known as ‘the Maputo Protocol’) was adopted on 11 July 2003 to ensure and advance African Women’s Rights. Close to two decades since the adoption, this comprehensive and pro
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Humanitarian Gender and Gender-based Violence (GBV) Minimum Actions
Informed by findings and recommendations from across multiple Save the Children gender analyses, coupled with guidance from the IASC GBV Guidelines and IASC Gender Handbook, these 15 priority actions guide a response to be gender-sensitive, enabling women
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COVID-19 and Gender Equality
Previous pandemics have shown us that gender inequality is not a side issue and that recognizing factors that can marginalize individuals in different groups can save lives. We also know that crises exacerbate gender inequalities and lessons that we have
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Funding for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and Girls in Humanitarian Programming: Jordan case study
Evidence shows that women and girls are disproportionately impacted by disasters and conflict. These crises affect their life expectancy, education, maternal health, livelihoods, nutrition, as well as the levels of violence they experience. At the same ti
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Generation Equality for Adolescent Girls: Accelerating progress to end child marriage through the Gender-Based Violence and other Action Coalitions
The 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action established a global blueprint for achieving gender equality and was the first international instrument to recognise the unique potential and rights abused faced by the girl child. The Generation Equali
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Funding for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and Girls in Humanitarian Programming: Bangladesh case study
Evidence shows that women and girls are disproportionately impacted by disasters and conflict. These crises affect their life expectancy, education, maternal health, livelihoods, nutrition, as well as the levels of violence they experience. At the same ti
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Five Actions for Gender Equality in the COVID-19 Response
The outbreak and spread of COVID-19 will have gendered impacts, and it is therefore important to ensure gender equality in humanitarian responses to the disease. For example, evidence shows that the home often is the most dangerous place for women and chi
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Funding for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and Girls in Humanitarian Programming
Evidence shows that women and girls are disproportionately impacted by disasters and conflict. These crises affect their life expectancy, education, maternal health, livelihoods, nutrition, as well as the levels of violence they experience. At the same ti