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.
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.
This article explores the social determinants of adolescents’ access to education during the COVID-19 pandemic in three diverse urban contexts in Bangladesh,…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Adolescents with disabilities must have their needs prioritised in recovery and future pandemic responses to improve health, educational, and social outcomes.
This article presents the methodological opportunities and challenges involved in analyzing such datasets, and seeks to offer insights for researchers undertaking qualitative longitudinal research.
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%).
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.
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.
The article focuses on how young people view and respond to misinformation online, and the role of digital literacy interventions to mitigate this challenge.
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.
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.
Nicola Jones, Workneh Yadete, Megan Devonald, Susannah Hares, Laura Moscoviz, Jack Rossiter, Patrick Shaw