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  Grow and Know

  Grow and Know, 2015

  The Grow and Know programme aims to empower young girls and boys to reach their potential through improved education and preparation for life. It develops books for girls and boys that are grounded in the local social, cultural, and economic context, and that capture the real perspectives of young people growing up today.
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  Gender Inequality Index

  United Nations Development Programme, 2014

  The Gender Inequality Index (GII), produced by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), measures gender inequalities in three important aspects of human development: reproductive health, measured by maternal mortality ratio and adolescent birth rates; empowerment, measured by proportion of parliamentary seats occupied by females and proportion of adult females and males aged 25 years and o
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  CPD 45th session. Theme: Adolescents and Youth. Analysis by Realising Sexual and Reproductive Justice (RESURJ), the International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC), Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), and Amnesty International (AI)

  Realising Sexual and Reproductive Justice, 2012

  This briefing paper provides an analysis of the process and outcomes of the UN Commission on Population and Development (CPD) in 2012, which focused on adolescents and youth.
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  Briefing cards: Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and the post-2015 development agenda

  Family Care International, 2014

  This set of five briefing cards, produced by the Universal Access Project, sets out the links between sexual and reproductive health (SRHR) and five areas key to the post-2015 development agenda. The areas are education, economic benefits, the broader health agenda, gender equality and the environment.
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  Placing healthy women and children at the heart of the post 2015 sustainable development framework

  World Health Organization, 2013

  This paper from the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health sets out the rationale for investing in women and children’s health as part of the post 2015 framework. It centres around four recommendations. First, it argues for a stand-alone health goal maximising health and wellbeing and specifying and end to preventable mortality and morbidity.
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  Motherhood in childhood: facing the challenge of adolescent pregnancy

  United Nations Population Fund, 2013

  Every day in developing countries, 20,000 girls below age 18 give birth. Nine in 10 of these births occur within marriage or a union. This has consequences on the health, education, employment and rights of an untold millions of girls. What are the challenges of adolescent pregnancy, and what can we do to ensure girls have a healthy and safe transition into adulthood?
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  Priority life-saving medicines for women and children 2012

  World Health Organization, 2012

  Improving maternal and child health is a global priority. An estimated 7.6 million children under the age of five die every year; and an estimated 1,000 women – most of them in developing countries – die every day due to complications related to pregnancy or childbirth.
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  Gender inequality and maternal and child nutrition in Northern Nigeria

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014

  This summary provides an overview of how gender inequality impacts maternal and child nutrition in Northern Nigeria.
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  Strengthening Community and Health Systems for Quality PMTCT: Applications in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and Ethiopia

  Pathfinder International, 2013

  Globally, there are an estimated 34 million people living with HIV, the vast majority of whom live in sub-Saharan Africa. There are increasing efforts to reverse the trend, with emphasis placed on creating a generation in which no children are born infected with the disease.
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  African Women’s Decade 2010-2020: 2013 annual review

  2014

  Since the Continental Launch of the African Women’s Decade (AWD) by the African Union (AU) in 2010, have African women’s rights advanced? Make Every Woman Count’s annual review of the AWD aims to evaluate the progress, or lack thereof, being made to include and promote the rights of women at country, regional, and Pan-African levels.

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