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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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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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Lead Like a Girl: Ensuring adolescent girls’ meaningful participation in decision-making processes
Adolescent girls have the right to participate in decision-making for matters that affect their lives and their communities, and nearly every country in the world has committed to delivering on this right. Including adolescent girls’ perspectives in polic
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A Father's Place: An assessment of male engagement in integrated early childhood development in Rwanda
This assessment documents factors, attitudes and behaviours inhibiting male engagement in early childhood development (ECD) in Rwanda. It aims to study both rural and urban settings and to formulate recommendations for future integrated ECD programming. T
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Let Girls Learn! West and Central Africa
Whilst considerable progress has been made, gender inequalities that disadvantage girls across the globe persist in West and Central Africa. Even before schools were forced to close in response to COVID-19, 41 million children and adolescents were out of
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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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Adolescent Girls’ Open Letter to World Leaders
As the Generation Equality processes and Forums celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action, there has been concerted attention made to the need to engage new generations in the fight for gender equality. But young people have often
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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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The Gendered Dimensions of Armed Conflict on Children in Sub-Saharan Africa
Analysing the risks and consequences of armed conflict on children from a gendered perspective makes visible the differentiated ways in which girls, boys and children of diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and sex characteristi
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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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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