This report highlights the impact of PAI’s flagship youth program, YOUAccess, which supports and partners with adolescent- and youth-led (AYL) organizations to advance adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health and rights. AYL organizations are often overlooked, but they have unique perspectives that shift norms, change policies, and secure increased funding from governments and donors. Read More
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Moving the Needle Towards Gender Transformation in Diverse Social and Behavior Change Programming Across West and Central Africa: Lessons and Considerations
This report uses case studies to show how programs can move the needle along the gender integration continuum, regardless of their current situation. It features case studies based on Breakthrough ACTION’s social and behavior change programming across francophone countries in West and Central Africa to guide the development and implementation of programming, policies, and services that can improve health and development outcomes for people of all gender identities, especially cisgender women and gender minorities. Read More
Shared Roots, Different Branches: Expanding Understanding of Child Marriage in Diverse Settings
JAH has launched a special research supplement and advocacy summary designed to guide activists, practitioners, and researchers to reframe child marriage, reconsider what it will take to end this harmful practice, and reinforce girls’ and boys’ rights globally. The research supplement highlights how child, early, and forced marriage is happening in different ways around the world. The advocacy summary highlights key themes; how these factors shape girls’ experiences within marriage; and how to address the root cause of child marriage: patriarchal control of girls’ sexuality. Read More
Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence: Making All Spaces Safe
As the world continues to evolve and expand in the use of technology and platforms, so too does the expansion of spaces through which violence can be perpetrated. This paper serves as an alarm bell for the international community, digital and feminist movements, private technology companies, and national governments to act in unison to end the rising scourge of technology-facilitated gender-based violence. Read More
Gender, Youth, and Social Inclusion Analysis Document Review
This report presents the methodology, findings, and identified gaps and opportunities from an analysis and document review on access to and use of MCHN services by marginalized and underserved populations in Uganda. This document review aimed to identify opportunities and gaps in national MCHN policies, guidelines, implementation, and measurement for issues related to gender, youth development, and social inclusion. Read More
Gender-Inclusive Legislative Framework and Laws to Strengthen Women’s Resilience to Climate Change and Disasters
Laws and policies are essential foundations to building equality, prohibiting discrimination, and empowering women to participate in disaster risk management (DRM) and action on climate change. DRM and climate change laws are part of a national framework of laws that need to work together to support women’s resilience. This report develops and applies a National Good Practice Legislative Framework as an analytical tool to present a range of different constitutional and national laws that support women’s resilience to climate change and disaster risk.Read More
