This special edition of Shujaaz Inc.’s COVID-19 Barometer, produced in partnership with UNICEF, draws on face-to-face interviews with 2,015 young people conducted between December 2020 and January 2021. Drawing on additional qualitative insights and conversations with girls across Kenya, the Barometer aims to provide an update on key topics including education, family planning and reproductive health, financial security, mental well-being, and resilience. Read More
Youth and Gender
Adolescent Girls’ Consultations Toolkit
This toolkit aims to lay a foundation to build a common understanding and coordinated approach to creating a participatory space to engage adolescents and adults in all their diversity and other key stakeholders on the aspirations, challenges, needs, and priorities of adolescent girls and young women. This resource provides practical tools and tips for consulting with diverse adolescent girls, their families, and communities. Read More
Brave Girl Rising
This film tells the story of Nasro, a courageous 17-year-old girl living in one of the world’s largest refugee camps. Despite the nearly insurmountable challenges she faces, Nasro still dreams of the future and her place in it. She fights for her right to education and encourages the girls around her to do the same. Read More
Gender, Youth, and Social Inclusion (GYSI) Analysis Framework and Toolkit
This comprehensive framework and toolkit serves organizations wanting to conduct a gender analysis with the intersectionality lens of sex, gender, age, and social inclusion, particularly for sexual and reproductive health and rights. The GYSI framework also has a rapid Risk Assessment Matrix, which can support organizations conducting risk assessments of an intervention geography or population. Read More
Spring Dialogues: IGWG Members Lead the Conversation!
On May 26, the Interagency Gender Working Group (IGWG) convened the “Spring Dialogues: IGWG Members Lead the Conversation!” virtual event, the first time IGWG members from around the world directed the discussion at an IGWG event. The Spring Dialogues focused on priority topics and technical challenges identified by IGWG members in the 2021 IGWG Member Survey, with volunteers from India and Nigeria facilitating discussion groups. Read More
What Does Power Mean to Men? Podcast Episode
In episode two of the What’s a Man? Masculinity in India podcast, host Deepa Narayan, an award-winning researcher, explores what power means to young boys and men. Narayan highlights the most common responses about power from some of the 250 middle and upper-class boys and men interviewed before exploring the nature of power and its consequences in different models of masculinity. Read More
