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Adolescent girls in Egypt
2016Girls under age 20—around 19 million of them—make up one-fifth of Egypt’s population.1 In 2015, about 8 million of these girls were adolescents between ages 10 and 19. According to the latest projections from the United Nations (UN) Population Division, this group will grow to 11.5 million in 2030—a 44 percent increase in 15 years.DocumentThe state of the World's children 2016: a fair chance for every child
United Nations Children's Fund, 2016Every child has the right to health, education and protection, and every society has a stake in expanding children’s opportunities in life. Yet, around the world, millions of children are denied a fair chance for no reason other than the country, gender or circumstances into which they are born.DocumentEmpower young women and adolescent girls: fast-track the end of the AIDS epidemic in Africa
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2015"To be effective, any health and development agenda needs to focus on the root causes of the gender gap, and the AIDS response is no different."DocumentTiyani Vavasati: empowerment and financial education intervention
Sonke Gender Justice Network, 2015Specifically aimed at females between the ages of 18-24 years-old, this training manual was produced to guide a series of training sessions which were designed to empower young women. Part of a Sonke Gender Justice project implemented in South Africa, the four one-day long training sessions, are meant to:DocumentFindings from the SASA! Study: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial To Assess the Impact of a Community Mobilization Intervention To Prevent Violence Against Women and Reduce HIV risk in Kampala, Uganda
BMC Medicine, 2016The need for HIV prevention efforts to more explicitly incorporate program elements to address gender inequality and violence has been repeatedly articulated, and the elimination of sexual and gender-based violence has been identified by the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) as being one of the core pillars of HIV prevention.DocumentEndline Evaluation: Women for Women International’s “Stronger Women, Stronger Afghanistan” Programme
2016In 2011, Women for Women International (WfWI) received a three-year grant from Human Dignity Foundation (HDF) for its programme, “Stronger Women, Stronger Afghanistan.” The overall goal of WfWI’s Afghanistan programme is to improve the lives of socially excluded women and their families by building self-reliance and access to sustainable livelihood opportunities.DocumentCash for women's empowerment? A mixed-methods evaluation of the Government of Zambia' s Child Grant Programme
UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2016The empowerment of women, broadly defined, is an often-cited objective and benefit of social cash transfer programmes in developing countries. Despite the promise and potential of cash transfers to empower women, the evidence supporting this outcome is mixed. In addition, there is little evidence from programmes that have gone to scale in sub-Saharan Africa.DocumentPatterns of veiling among Muslim women
Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2016Understanding why women veil today is a challenging question as it is probably connected to multiple phenomena. The literature – both qualitative and theoretical– suggests a range of hypotheses about why women veil.DocumentSocial protection and women's empowerment
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2016Many social protection programmes, including cash transfers, safety-net oriented public works programmes and asset transfers, target women as main beneficiaries. As such, extending social protection to rural populations has great potential for fostering rural women’s economic empowerment. However, to tap into this potential, more needs to be done.Pages