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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
Primary school class room in Amhara© Nathalie Bertrams / GAGE 2022
Disrupted educational pathways: The effects of conflict on adolescent educational access and learnin...
This article explores the experiences of young people during and after their communities were occupied by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front in Ethiopia, and the multi-pronged effects the conflict has had on their educational pathways.
6th October 2022
2022-10-06 08:45:46
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
Photo: Nathalie Bertrams/GAGE
Intersecting barriers to adolescents’ educational access during COVID-19: Exploring the role of gend...
This article explores the social determinants of adolescents’ access to education during the COVID-19 pandemic in three diverse urban contexts in Bangladesh,…
5th July 2021
2021-07-05 17:40:11
“There Is No School And That’s A Big Problem”: Adolescent Refugees And Education | PODCAST | Episode...
In episode two, we focus on this crisis of education, and compare the plight of young refugees who have fled from their homes in Myanmar and Syria, and settled in Bangladesh and Jordan.
1st November 2021
2021-11-01 11:31:59
Student in the school library © Nathalie Bertrams/GAGE
EdTech for Ugandan girls: Affordances of different technologies for girls’ secondary education durin...
This article addresses a research gap surrounding the potential use of EdTech to support girls’ education, focusing on the barriers to girls’ EdTech use and how technology might be used to enhance girls’ education in disadvantaged rural areas – specifically their academic learning and their social and emotional learning.
23rd May 2022
2022-05-23 13:14:42
Education Publications
A young Syrian woman who works in farming, Jordan © Marcel Saleh/GAGE 2024
Jordan UNICEF cash plus baseline survey 2021/2022
Read the Jordan UNICEF cash plus baseline survey 2021/2022 here.
3rd December 2024
2024-12-03 07:03:23
© Nathalie Bertrams/ GAGE 2023
Investing in adolescent girls: Key changes in the bilateral donor funding landscape - 2021 update
Our analysis underscores that post-pandemic investments are not reaching adolescent girls. This reinforces the urgency of increasing both advocacy and evidence on the importance of funding programming that targets adolescent girls.
18th September 2023
2023-09-18 14:34:01
Adolescent mother with her friend and baby, Oromia region, Ethiopia © Nathalie Bertrams/GAGE 2023
Comprehensive sexuality education for the most disadvantaged young people: findings from formative r...
This paper explores the challenges faced by these groups of young people in accessing inclusive and age-appropriate sexual and reproductive health knowledge and services in the Ethiopian context and the implications for delivering CSE.
6th April 2023
2023-04-06 09:21:08
A boy in the Sholoshahore railway station, Chittagong, Bangladesh © Nathalie Bertrams/GAGE 2023
Assessing the health, social, educational and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent...
This paper looks at a wide array of outcomes impacting adolescents’ daily lives including health (mental, physical, sexual and reproductive health, vaccine perceptions and overlap between these topics), social relationships (family and peer), education and socio-economic disparities.
6th April 2023
2023-04-06 06:47:09
Students with visual impairment in classroom, Ethiopia © Nathalie Bertrams/GAGE 2023
Creating a better post-pandemic future for adolescents with disabilities
Adolescents with disabilities must have their needs prioritised in recovery and future pandemic responses to improve health, educational, and social outcomes.
21st March 2023
2023-03-21 07:12:46
First grader, at the age of 12, in a classroom, Afar, Ethiopia © Nathalie Bertrams/GAGE 2023
Analysing Adolescent Education and Health Trajectories in Crisis Contexts: Examples From a Multi-Yea...
This article presents the methodological opportunities and challenges involved in analyzing such datasets, and seeks to offer insights for researchers undertaking qualitative longitudinal research.
24th February 2023
2023-02-24 10:37:34
Adolescent boys in Gaza city, Palestine © Paul Jeffrey/ACT Alliance 2021
Exploring the gendered mental health experiences of adolescents in Gaza during the Covid-19 pandemic
This article explores adolescent experiences in Gaza, drawing on mixed-methods research carried out in late 2020 in refugee camps (29%) and urban settings (71%).
18th January 2023
2023-01-18 11:32:46
A caption from Ebnat, Amhara region, Ethiopia © Nathalie Bertrams/GAGE 2022
Youth, Gender and Climate Resilience: Voices of Adolescent and Young Women in Southern Africa
This paper draws on Feminist Participatory Action Research undertaken by adolescent girls in Zambia and Zimbabwe. Centred on access to education, the findings prompt a reframing of youth agency and empowerment beyond instrumental concerns to integrate intrinsic factors that include self-fulfilment, recognition from others, status, and self-resilience.
9th November 2022
2022-11-09 10:45:54
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
Education Multimedia
© 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
© GAGE/Ottavia Pasta
Adolescent Lives In Bangladesh: What Are We Learning From Longitudinal Evidence?
Girls' vs. boys' enrollment in education in Bangladesh.
14th March 2022
2022-03-14 07:48:05
“There Is No School And That’s A Big Problem”: Adolescent Refugees And Education | PODCAST | Episode...
In episode two, we focus on this crisis of education, and compare the plight of young refugees who have fled from their homes in Myanmar and Syria, and settled in Bangladesh and Jordan.
1st November 2021
2021-11-01 11:31:59
© Nathalie Bertrams/GAGE
Five Ways That Education Systems Can Support Girls in the Face of Climate Change, Today
Five Ways That Education Systems Can Support Girls in the Face of Climate Change, Today | Center For Global…
27th July 2021
2021-07-27 08:52:34
Fund Girls’ Education. Don’t Greenwash It.
You might think girls' education and climate change are quite different issues. But, with money for and political attention on climate change growing, savvy education donors and advocacy organisations are increasingly making links between the two.
27th July 2021
2021-07-27 08:41:28
Exploring changing patterns in adolescents’ access to education and learning in Ethiopia
Midline data collection to explore exploring changing patterns in Ethiopian adolescents’ access to education and learning.
26th April 2021
2021-04-26 10:48:11
Photo: Ali Hamad
I lost my education, but I didn’t lose hope of learning
Ali is an 18-year-old Syrian boy from Aleppo who lives in a collective shelter in Lebanon.
24th January 2021
2021-01-24 23:35:32
Girls in extra-curricular computer class. Photo: NISER
Beijing+25: why we should work with families to upskill adolescent girls
Four priorities for Beijing +25 and investment in adolescent girls' lifeskills.
30th September 2020
2020-09-30 00:38:24
Lebanon
Adolescents in their own voices: ‘I am here, I exist, hear me! ’ - my voice to the world
Zeina is a 17-year-old Syrian girl from Raqqa who got married when she was 15 and has an infant child.
12th August 2020
2020-08-12 02:52:02