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Women's and girls' empowerment
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Barriers to Women and Girls’ Participation in Electoral Processes in Ethiopia and Policy Responses
This report focuses on the main barriers to women and girls’ meaningful participation in electoral processes and evidence of what works to overcome these. The report also considers the role of various other elevated risk factors in Ethiopian society inclu
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We Can!
We Can! is inspired by the artwork, messages, and recommendations of children in Jordan, Egypt, and Lebanon about their dreams for girls in their community. This is part of a collaboration called #DreamsBetweenMyEyes, between Save the Children Internation
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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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Improving Adolescent Reproductive Health and Nutrition Through Structural Solutions in West Hararghe Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia Abdiboru Project Final
The objective of the project was to empower girls in rural West Hararghe, Ethiopia, through improved reproductive health, nutrition, and education. Ethiopia is characterized by a high level of early marriage. For many girls, early marriage results in them
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Empowering Girls and Women to Lead Change Annual Report 2019
The UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme is the largest global program addressing female genital mutilation. The 2019 annual report describes how the Joint Programme have been working during 2019 to empower girls and women to lead change.
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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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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: 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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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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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
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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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