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The Girl Agenda: Empowering Girls Through Global Leadership
The Girl Agenda calls upon the new UN Secretary-General to champion and prioritise the rights of girls on five key issues for gender equality: child marriage data education laws, practices and norms sexual and reproductive health rights.
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More Power to Her: How empowering girls can help end child marriage
This report evaluates four programmes that utilized, in whole or in part, girl-focused approaches in their programming practices. The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) wished to know if and how these programmes empowered girls and if this
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The Making of Sexual Violence: How does a boy grow up to commit rape?
This report adds to current research on physical and/or sexual violence by a partner or non/partner in a woman's life time. This report investigates the prevalence of sexual violence perpetration, risk and protective factors among men in five studies of t
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Child marriage in South Asia: Realities, Responses and the Way Forward
A paper prepared by the International Center for Research on Women for the UNFPA Asia Pacific Regional Office, Bangkok, on child marriage in South Asia. Child marriage is a serious human rights crisis and one of the most pressing development concerns in
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Improving the Lives of Married Adolescent Girls in Amhara, Ethiopia: A summary of the evidence
This report presents the learnings from a programme designed and implemented by CARE Ethiopia and evaluated by the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW). The programme “Towards Economic and Sexual Reproductive Health Outcomes for Adolescent Gi
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Bridges to adulthood: Understanding the lifelong influence of men's childhood experiences of violence analyzing data from the International Men and Gender Equality Survey
Conducted by Instituto Promundo and ICRW (International Center for Research on Women), this report explores the prevalence and nature of violence against children as well as its potential lifelong effects. Using IMAGES data from six countries (Brazil, Chi
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Masculinidades y políticas de equidad de género: Reflexiones a partir de la encuesta Images y una revisión de políticas en Brasil, Chile y México
This report presents discussions and recommendations for the development of policies that involve men as active participants for gender equity achievement. It contains data from IMAGES (International Men And Gender Equality Survey) and a policy analysis c
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Solutions to end child marriage. What the evidence shows
Child marriage is increasingly recognised as a serious problem, both as a violation of girls’ human rights and as a hindrance to key development outcomes. As more resources and action are committed to addressing this problem, it becomes important to exami
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International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES) Survey Questionnaires
This document includes the men’s and women’s questionnaires used to conduct the International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES) as part of the Men and Gender Equality Policy Project (MGEPP). The questionnaires ask about men’s attitudes and practices
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Girl Insights Report For Building a Better World. "I know. I want. I Dream
In 2009, ICRW published Girls Speak: A New Voice in Global Development as the fourth report of the Girls Count report series. Four years later, researchers supported by the Nike Foundation asked more than 500 girls from 14 countries to share their insight
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Men Who Care: Multi-Country Qualitative Study of Men in Non-Traditional Caregiving Roles
“Men Who Care” is a five-country (Brazil, Chile, India, Mexico and South Africa) qualitative study that seeks to explore care issues by listening to men who are involved in non-traditional forms of care work – in the family and professional realms. The st
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Evolving men: Initial Results from the International Men and Gender Equality Survey [IMAGES]
This report summarizes multi-country findings from the International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES), a comprehensive household questionnaire on men’s attitudes and practices – along with women’s opinions and reports of men’s practices – on a wide