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Education and Learning

An adolescent girl from Gaza. Photo: Rebecca Reid/Overseas Development Institute

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Education Publications

© Nathalie Bertrams/ GAGE 2023

© 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

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

Female students in a computer lab at school, Amhara region, Ethiopia © Nathalie Bertrams / GAGE 2020

User perspectives on digital literacy as a response to misinformation

The article focuses on how young people view and respond to misinformation online, and the role of digital literacy interventions to mitigate this challenge.
1st November 2022
2022-11-01 15:37:39

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…
Sophia D'Angelo
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.
GAGE consortium
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

© 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…
Nicola Jones, Workneh Yadete, Megan Devonald, Laura Moscoviz, Jack Rossiter
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.
Nicola Jones, Workneh Yadete, Megan Devonald, Susannah Hares, Laura Moscoviz, Jack Rossiter, Patrick Shaw
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

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.
Ali Hamad
24th January 2021
2021-01-24 23:35:32
Girls in extra-curricular computer class. Photo: NISER

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.
Anita Ghimire
30th September 2020
2020-09-30 00:38:24
Lebanon

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.
Zeina Ghannoush
12th August 2020
2020-08-12 02:52:02