To commemorate the World Day for Prevention of Child Abuse on November 19, Together for Girls launched their Kenya storytelling hub. Propelled by the first Violence Against Children and Youth Survey in 2010, Kenya raised awareness, mobilized resources, and prioritized a decade of action to end violence against children. Click through the hub to learn more about the data and meet the inspiring individuals who are working every day to...Read More
Youth and Gender
Our Gorongosa
This film follows Dominique Gonçalves, a Mozambican ecologist who runs the Gorongosa elephant ecology project at Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park, which redefines the identity and purpose of an African national park. From her work mitigating human/elephant conflict; to community clubs and school programs that empower girls to avoid teen marriage and pregnancy; to health clinics and nutrition training for expectant mothers and families, viewers understanding...Read More
Raising Kind Boys and Amazing Girls
This five-minute video, cut down from a longer documentary, explores the work of two South African researchers, Rebecca Helman and Kopano Ratele. They have conducted interviews, ethnographic observations, and a survey into gender inequality, equality, and violence. Their work seeks to not only grasp and show how inequality is thought of and manifests in homes, but how egalitarian families understand equality and inequality, do equality,...Read More
Empowering Today’s Young People to Create the Future We Want to See Tomorrow: A Q&A with Carlos Alvarado Quesada, President of Costa Rica
Jyotir Nisha of Women Deliver and H.E. Carlos Alvarado Quesada, the 48th President of Costa Rica, discuss the links between climate change and gender equality, reinforcing the need to position young people, particularly girls and women, at the heart of decision making to power progress for all. In this Q&A, they discuss what it means to mobilize everyone, everywhere to overcome gender inequality and win...Read More
Global Media Campaign to End Female Genital Mutilation
Check out the media campaign to learn more.Read More
Reproductive Autonomy and Modern Contraceptive Use at Last Sex Among Young Women in Ghana
Using data collected from a sample of 325 urban Ghanaian women (ages 15 to 24), this study examined associations between two adapted reproductive autonomy subscales—decisionmaking and communication—and women’s use of modern contraceptives at last sex. It concludes that the reproductive autonomy construct, particularly the decisionmaking subscale, demonstrates relevance for family planning outcomes among young women in Ghana and may have utility in global settings.Read More
