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Women's and girls' empowerment
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Driving Progress for Adolescent Girls: Decreasing child marriage over the next five years
The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action recognizes the reality of girls’ distinct experiences and cites child marriage as a driver of girls’ mortality, lack of access to education, and diminished economic opportunities in their future. As a critic
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Funding for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women and Girls in Humanitarian Programming: Somalia 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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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
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Ensuring Accountability to Girls throughout Generation Equality
Achieving progress for girls, including adolescent girls, requires us to tackle the many causes and consequences of the rights violations they experience at once and in an integrated manner. If the Action Coalitions as part of the Beijing+25 process are t
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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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Reussite et Epanouissement via l’Apprentissage et L’Insertion au Systeme Educatif (REALISE): Project Brief
REALISE aims to help up to 60,000 girls in six provinces to access primary and secondary school through a suite of interrelated interventions. The interventions involve working with a wide range of groups, from families and communities, through to teacher
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Girl-focused Life Skills Interventions at a Distance
This rapid review explores the evidence and lessons learned about engaging girls in life skills interventions at a distance (i.e. through mobile, online, radio or other) both in emergency and non-emergency settings. The purpose of the review is to assist
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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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The Localization of Aid in Jordan and Lebanon: Barriers and opportunities for women-led organizations
Since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, an enormous amount of people have fled their homes. Many countries have experienced a large influx of refugees, but Jordan and Lebanon are those who have the highest number of refugees in proportion to t
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Preliminary Research Summary: A feminist exploration of women-led localisation in the Central Sulawesi response
Central Sulawesi in Indonesia is understood to be a mainly patriarchal society, within which women and girls experience inequalities at multiple levels. For example, women and girls are exposed to different forms of gender-based violence (GBV) and are oft
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A Quiet Revolution: The EMERGENCY Anabah Maternity Centre and women's empowerment
The war in Afghanistan has caused huge material and human destruction. Millions of people have been killed, internally displaced or forced to flee the country. The national healthcare system is seriously damaged, which has affected women's health especial
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Achieving Gender Equality by 2030: Putting adolescents at the center of the agenda
This report responds to the analysis and recommendations of a global coalition of adolescent health experts who find that the world will never achieve Goal 5 of the Sustainable Development Goals aiming to "achieve gender equality and empower all women and