GAGE will generate research-based evidence by engaging with multiple stakeholders, including adolescent girls and boys themselves, their parents, community role models, programme implementers, service providers, and key informants from local governments. Our blog aims to capture the diversity of these actors’ perspectives and voices and will showcase different viewpoints on adolescence, gender and development. We hope, by actively involving adolescents, to empower them to create change in their own lives—as well as their families and communities—and by bringing in a range of adult views, to better highlight how challenges and opportunities are shifting over time.
Photo stories
Explore adolescents' daily experiences in diverse contexts
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Ingrid Gercama
Girls and technology
How is UNICEF Jordan using technology to help empower adolescent refugees?
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UNICEF/Olivier Asselin
Girls' access to SRH services threatened
GAGE Director Dr Nicola Jones comments on the impact of the UNFPA defunding on women and girls
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GAGE video and photography workshop
GAGE aims to develop country specific videos and images that are representative of the communities it works within and of the work done by its researchers and partners. To this end, country research teams have been included in the development of these materials.
International Youth Day: Creating Safe Spaces that Tackle Systemic Challenges
Sunday marks 19 years of celebrating International Youth Day (IYD), designated by the United Nations as the day to recognise the many accomplishments of youth and youth-focused initiatives worldwide.
Girls Not Brides: Second Global Meeting
The imperative of tackling child marriage has risen rapidly up the development agenda over the past decade and the energy and dedication that underpins this global movement was palpable at the rece
Engaging with the community: reflections on a dissemination workshop to share findings on research with adolescents with a disability in Palestine
Given that young people with a disability face considerable discrimination and stigma in the Palestinian context, we wanted to prioritise sharing the findings of our research with the local community to generate a discussion about potential local strategies to enhance young people’s wellbeing.
Dance bars, doharis and massage parlours: Exploring the lives of Nepali adolescent girls working in the adult entertainment sector (AES) in Nepal
NISER, with ODI, has been conducting research on adolescents since 2012, focusing particularly on social norms, intimate partner violence, and mobility and employment. Our findings show that, while there is some positive change, norms around mobility and marriage are still stringent for girls.
The 62nd Commission on the Status of Women: did it deliver for adolescent girls?
In March this year, GAGE researchers and staff attended the 62nd Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York. CSW is the main global intergovernmental body that focuses exclusively on the promotion of gender equality and women’s empowerment.
GAGE Consortium INGOs deliver a joint oral statement before the 62nd Commission on the Status of Women
On Wednesday 21st of March, a Joint Statement on the importance of strengthening policy, programming and evidence to enhance adolescent girls’ capabilities, was presented on behalf of the GAGE cons
International Women’s Day 2018: In Conversation with our Research Uptake and Impact Coordinators
International Women’s Day (IWD) has been taking place, across the world, for over 100 years.
Leaving no adolescent girl behind - how did the 2018 ECOSOC Youth Forum perform?
GAGE was recently invited to participate in the 2018 United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Youth Forum,