Economic empowerment Publications
Improving pathways for girls and disadvantaged youth through secondary education and into work: Evid...
This article aims to synthesise insights from Mastercard Foundation's portfolio of programming in secondary education and situate these findings in the broader literature on equitable secondary education and preparing youth for the transition to work in sub-Saharan Africa.
1st November 2022
2022-11-01 15:55:38
Zaatari 2018 Innovation Lab © Herwig UNICEF 2017
Youth economic security, skills and empowerment: Learning from positive outliers among youth affecte...
Findings from mixed-methods research that explores displaced adolescents' economic aspirations and experiences in Jordan.
12th July 2022
2022-07-12 16:35:18
A Syrian girl working a field near her informal tented settlement © Marcel Saleh
‘Each one of us had a dream’: An exploration of factors supporting gender-responsive education and e...
This report aims to understand what sets the most successful young Syrian and Palestinian refugees apart from their peers.
12th July 2022
2022-07-12 16:34:26
Girls on their way home from school © Nathalie Bertrams/GAGE
Making the “Unthinkable” Thinkable: Fostering Sustainable Development for Youth in Ethiopia’s Lowlan...
This paper explores the diverse and interwoven risks facing adolescents (and their families) living in the lowland areas of the Oromia and Afar regions.
12th April 2022
2022-04-12 15:22:08
A group of girls in Bangladesh © Nathalie Bertrams/GAGE 2023
Identifying latent classes of empowerment among early adolescent girls and the factors that cultivat...
Empowering girls is an important goal in development but remains difficult to measure. This project develops survey-based empowerment measures…
22nd March 2022
2022-03-22 09:55:56
© Nathalie Bertrams/GAGE
Palestine’s national cash transfer programme: An example of cash transfer programming in a humanitar...
There are some promising examples of how social protection, especially cash transfers, can mitigate the effects of crises. Yet…
20th October 2021
2021-10-20 07:54:53
© Nathalie Bertrams/GAGE
The Effect Of COVID-19 on Economic Participation and Human Capital Development of Youth Living in Ur...
Young people living in urban slums face several challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its accompanying lockouts. School…
13th October 2021
2021-10-13 16:50:23
A young Borana woman with her goats in Borana, Ethiopia. Photo: ILRI Zerihun Sewunet, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Resilient generation: Supporting young people’s prospects for decent work in the drylands of east an...
This report reviews opportunities for young people in the drylands of Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Sudan, Somalia, Sudan and Mali to…
5th October 2021
2021-10-05 08:57:14
© Nathalie Bertrams/GAGE
‘We suffer to survive’: Exploring adolescent opportunities and challenges in securing decent work ...
Report synthesising findings from the GAGE programme’s midline data collection to explore patterns in Ethiopian adolescents’ economic empowerment.
12th August 2021
2021-08-12 09:27:42
Young adolescent students of a madrasa in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Photo: Nathalie Bertrams/GAGE
Measuring empowerment among adolescent girls in the context of intervention
Empowerment is an important goal in adolescent girl programming but remains elusive and unobserved from a quantitative measurement perspective.
14th January 2021
2021-01-14 00:20:16
Economic empowerment Publications
A 21-year-old girl who completed grade 12 and wants a government job © Nathalie Bertrams/GAGE 2024
Resourcing girls: The potential and challenges of girl- and youth-led organising
This report covers the potential and challenges of girl- and youth-led organising.
13th March 2024
2024-03-13 09:32:26
© Nathalie Bertrams/GAGE
Adolescent digital inclusion
Qualitative research toolkit to explore the experiences of adolescents during the covid-19 pandemic with regard to digital inclusion, with a focus on young people affected by forced displacement.
24th January 2022
2022-01-24 10:05:35
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Tackling digital exclusion among disadvantaged adolescents in Jordan
Report on findings from a rapid assessment of UNICEF Jordan’s digital inclusion programme for vulnerable adolescents attending Makani centres aiming to help address the digital divide.
24th January 2022
2022-01-24 10:04:49
Economic empowerment Multimedia
Photo: Marcel Saleh/GAGE
A day in the life of Ahmed
Ahmed is a 21-year-old Lebanese youth whose transition into adulthood has been profoundly shaped by the multiple and intersecting crises that have beset Lebanon over the last three years.
13th December 2022
2022-12-13 17:37:22
A day in the life of Hamza
Hamza is a 20-year-old youth from Baalback, Lebanon. In 2019, he stopped going to vocational school due the pandemic and the severe economic crisis that hit Lebanon.
13th December 2022
2022-12-13 17:36:27
© Nathalie Bertrams / GAGE 2020
Launching the GAGE Special Issue on adolescent skills to address global challenges
This week, ODI’s Gender and Adolescence Global Evidence (GAGE) research consortium is excited to launch its special issue in…
3rd November 2022
2022-11-03 12:20:03