Empowering Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries: Gender Justice and Norm Change
Empowering Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries explores the detrimental impact of discriminatory gender norms on adolescent girls’ lives across very different contexts. Grounded in four years of in-depth research in Ethiopia, Nepal, Uganda and Viet Nam, the book adopts a holistic approach, recognising the inter-related nature of capabilities and the importance of local context.
Edited ByCaroline Harper, Nicola Jones, Anita Ghimire, Rachel Marcus, Grace Kyomuhendo Bantebya
<a href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315180250">https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315180250</a>
Routledge
2018
English
Team Kenya
Their mission is to involve entire communities in gender equality, so that girls in rural Kenya can create their own bright futures.
Valerie Wilson
<a href="https://www.teamkenya.org.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.teamkenya.org.uk/</a>
Team Kenya
2016
English
Responding to children and adolescents who have been sexually abused: WHO clinical guidelines
Aimed at helping front-line health workers, primarily from low resource settings, in providing evidence-based, quality, trauma-informed care to survivors. The guidelines emphasize the importance of promoting safety, offering choices and respecting the wishes and autonomy of children and adolescents. They cover recommendations for post-rape care and mental health; and approaches to minimizing distress in the process of taking medical history, conducting examination and documenting findings.
World Health Organization (WHO)
<a href="http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/violence/clinical-response-csa/en/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/violence/clinical-response-csa/en/</a>
World Health Organization (WHO)
2017
English
My Savera
Their mission is to improve the lives of underprivileged and poor children, especially young abandoned girls in India. They raise funds to help provide shelter, access to medical care, improved nutrition, and education for these children.
<a href="http://mysavera.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://mysavera.org/</a>
English
District-Level Study on Child Marriage in India: What do we know about the prevalence, trends and patterns?
This study, undertaken with support from UNICEF, was designed to assess child marriage rates at the district level throughout India and to determine if there are patterns that can provide further insights into scaling up successful prevention efforts.
Padmavathi Srinivasan, Nizamuddin Khan, Ravi Verma, Dora Giusti, Joachim Theis, Supriti Chakraborty
<a href="https://www.icrw.org/publications/district-level-study-on-child-marriage-in-india/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.icrw.org/publications/district-level-study-on-child-marriage-in-india/</a>
ICRW
2015
English
Transitioning to a Healthy Adulthood: Lessons learned from adolescent girls living with HIV in urban Zambia
The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) and Zambart conducted formative research between January and April 2015 to generate evidence-based ideas for services and programmatic interventions that support healthy transitions to adulthood among adolescent girls living with HIV in Zambia.
Anne Stangl, Virginia Bond, Constance Mackworth-Young, Kirsty Sievwright, Devaki Singh, Sue Clay, Chipo Chiiya, Mutale Chonta, Katongo Konayuma
<a href="https://www.icrw.org/publications/transitioning-to-a-healthy-adulthood/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.icrw.org/publications/transitioning-to-a-healthy-adulthood/</a>
International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)
2015
English
Girls Not Brides
Girls Not Brides is a global partnership of more than 900 civil society organisations committed to ending child marriage and enabling girls to fulfil their potential.
<a href="https://www.girlsnotbrides.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.girlsnotbrides.org/</a>
Girls Not Brides
2002-2018
English, French
Population Council
The Population Council conducts research to address critical health and development issues. Their work allows couples to plan their families and chart their futures. They help people avoid HIV infection and access life-saving HIV services. And they empower girls to protect themselves and have a say in their own lives.
<a href="https://www.popcouncil.org/site/pc" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.popcouncil.org/site/pc</a>
The Population Council, Inc.
2018
English , Google Translate
A More Equal Future: A MenCare Manual to Engage Fathers to Prevent Child Marriage in India
This manual was developed as part of a collaboration between World Vision and Promundo in response to harmful societal and cultural practices that support the continuation of child marriage in India. This tool is designed to provide a safe and constructive space for men, their partners and their daughters to critically reflect on the cultural and gender norms that perpetuate the devaluation of girls and serve as obstacles to men’s participation as involved fathers.
<a href="https://promundoglobal.org/resources/a-more-equal-future-a-mencare-manual-to-engage-fathers-to-prevent-child-marriage-in-india/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://promundoglobal.org/resources/a-more-equal-future-a-mencare-manual-to-engage-fathers-to-prevent-child-marriage-in-india/</a>
Promundo, World Vision, MenCare
2013
English
“She goes with me in my boat”: Child and Adolescent Marriage in Brazil
This study, the first of its kind in Brazil, explores attitudes and practices around child and adolescent marriage in Pará and Maranhão, two Brazilian states with highest prevalence of the practice. The results confirm the mostly informal and consensual nature of unions involving girls under the age of 18 in the settings studied. The analysis highlights the ways in which a child or adolescent marriage may create or exacerbate risk factors (i.e., related to health, education, security) while often being perceived by girls or family members as offering stability in settings of economic insecurity and limited opportunities
Alice Taylor, Giovanna Lauro, Marcio Segundo, Margaret Greene
<a href="https://promundoglobal.org/resources/she-goes-with-me-in-my-boat-child-and-adolescent-marriage-in-brazil/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://promundoglobal.org/resources/she-goes-with-me-in-my-boat-child-and-adolescent-marriage-in-brazil/</a>
Instituto Promundo & Promundo-US
2015
English, Portuguese