Children, Youth and Gender

	Women's Leadership and Participation: Case studies on learning for action Women across the world bear a disproportionate burden of poverty in terms of material deprivation, discrimination, and denial of their basic rights. This means they often have little opportunity to... read more Posted on 11-18-2009

	User Guide to Measuring Gender-Sensitive Basic Service Delivery This 2009 guide by UNIFEM contributes to the development and more effective use of gender-sensitive indicators so that services are delivered more efficiently and effectively to women. It is a... read more Posted on 11-18-2009

	Women's Entrepreneurship Development Capacity Building Guide This publication from the ILO serves as a guide and training tool to improve the skills of staff in Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) support institutions and projects, by enabling... read more Posted on 11-18-2009

	Literature review on qualitative methods and standards for engaging and studying independent children in the developing world This paper identifies and evaluates qualitative methods appropriate for use in conducting policy-relevant research on the experiences, motivations, agency and life histories of autonomous and semi-autonomous children and adolescents, including... read more Posted on 11-18-2009

	A Study on Violence against Girls: Report on the International Girl Child Conference March 9-10, The Hague This publication includes a background document prepared by the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre (IRC), and summarizes the discussions and outcomes of the International Conference on Violence against the Girl Child... read more Posted on 11-18-2009

	The 2007 State of the World's Children report The 2007 State of the World's Children report examines the discrimination and disempowerment women face throughout their lives – and outlines what must be done to eliminate gender discrimination and... read more Posted on 11-18-2009

	Empowerment of Adolescents: Findings from a baseline survey in Bangladesh This UNICEF brochure presents highlights of the primary findings of the baseline survey of the second phase of the Kishori Abhijan - Empowerment of Adolescents - project. The baseline survey... read more Posted on 11-18-2009

	Highlights of baseline findings on adolescents' social environment This brochure presents highlights of the primary findings of the baseline survey of the second phase of the Kishori Abhijan - Empowerment of Adolescents - project. The baseline survey looked... read more Posted on 11-18-2009

	Violence Against Women and Girls Violence against women and girls (VAW/G) has been raised as a critical issue to be addressed in the international arena. While many programmatic initiatives are or have taken place around the... read more Posted on 11-18-2009

	Staying Behind When Husbands Move: Women’s Experiences in India and Bangladesh This publication from the research institute on Migration, Globalization and Poverty summarizes the effects of the temporary absence of migrant men on women’s livelihoods in rural West Bengal, India, and... read more Posted on 11-18-2009

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The Feminization of HIV/AIDS
The 'feminization' of HIV/AIDS poses a multidimensional health and humanitarian crisis, which could impact human development and economic growth. The global HIV/AIDS pandemic highlights the importance of targeted health policies and program that address the needs of women and girls....

Girl's Education in the 21st Century

This publication discusses gender equality as a development issue. It argues that women’s economic empowerment is essential for economic development, growth, and poverty reduction not because of the income it generates, but because it helps to break the poverty...

The Girl Effect: Why Invest in Adolescent Girls?
The Girl Effect

The girl effect is a project that advocates for investments in adolescent girls on order to break the cycles of poverty that entrap families, societies and communities around the world. It argues that young girls are...