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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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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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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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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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Inter-Agency Humanitarian Evaluation on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and Girls Management Response Plan (MRP)
This management response plan conducted by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) provides eight recommendations on gender equality and the empowerment of Women and Girls.
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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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Women’s and Girls’ Experiences of Security and Justice in Somaliland
In Somaliland women and girls experience poor security, with high rates of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), and significant barriers to gender equality in the pluralistic legal system. The predominant clan-based customary justice system, along wit
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Gender Equality Strategy Impact Report: Empowering women, adolescent girls and communities towards healthy, full-term pregnancies and a healthy start for newborns
Born on Time (BOT) is a unique program – truly a global first around the issue of prematurity prevention. The program is the first public-private partnership dedicated to the prevention of preterm birth, now the leading cause of death in children under fi
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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