Advancing Adolescent Girls' Rights

  • F Funding Initiative/Portfolio

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

In the US and Global South, we seek to create conditions for positive change for girls. We keep girls at the center, ensuring that their own voices, experiences and aspirations shape the programs meant to serve them. We fund work that transforms from the inside out — a girl's own sense of her future and potential — and the outside in — the systems surrounding her. We support activists, girls and adults alike, who are working towards these changes every day. Underlying all of our efforts is our intention to move girls from invisibility to investment. For most girls, simply being young and female places them at the very bottom of the social hierarchy; race, class, sexual orientation, gender identity, immigration status, ability and other factors can deepen their exclusion. The consequences are global. While the specifics vary by geography, the overall picture is the same: individual potential is unrealized while systemic cycles of inequality persist.


Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Global

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2007 -

Partner(s)

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

Global / regional

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Other skills

  • Rights/empowerment education

Cross-cutting areas

  • Early/child marriage
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Gender equality
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
  • Violence (at home, in relationships)

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls (both in school and out of school), Youth

Age

12 - 19

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

  • Displaced/refugee - External (from other countries)
  • Internal migrants (from other areas of the same country)

Program Approaches Back to Top

Health and childcare services

  • Sexual and reproductive health services (including family planning)

Life skills education

  • Sexual and reproductive health (including puberty education)

Other

  • Other activities to address/end violence (not captured above)
  • Other activities to end child marriage (not captured above)

School-related gender-based violence

  • Safe channels/mechanisms for reporting violence
  • Violence prevention curriculum/activities for students

Women's empowerment programs

  • Advocacy/action
  • Empowerment training

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Increased secondary school completion
  • Increased years of schooling

Cross-cutting goals

  • Improved financial literacy and savings
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Reduced child marriage