Indaba Conference—”Keep-the-Girls-In-School (KGS): Gender Responsive and Transformative Education”
From 17th to 19th May 2023, the Bakhita Partnership for Education (BPE) will convene the “Keep-the-Girls in School” Indaba to consider the state of [...]
Advancing the Agenda in Girls’ Education Research
Council researcher Nicole Haberland co-authored a recent piece in CGD Notes, a publication by the Center for Global Development (CGD), together with fellow [...]
Prioritizing Education to Invest in Girls
In celebration of the International Day of Education, we highlight some ongoing education programs and studies by the Population Council and its collaborators, to [...]
Investing in Younger Adolescent Girls in Kenya Leads to Long-term Sustained Improvements in Education and Health
Adolescent girls in Kenya and other countries in sub-Saharan Africa face a myriad of vulnerabilities including household poverty, violence, limited education opportunities, and [...]
What We Know and Don’t Know About Interventions to Address Gender-related Barriers to Girls’ Education
January 21, 2022—As gender disparities in education persist and continue to undermine girls’ opportunities, a new review finds that significant knowledge gaps remain in our understanding of which interventions [...]
Remember the Fundamentals as we Build Back Better in Girls’ Education
In a Brookings Education Plus Development blog, Council Senior Associate Karen Austrian and GIRL Center Director Stephanie Psaki remind us that while the world has changed dramatically over [...]
Challenging Key Assumptions on the Links Between Education and Girls’ Health and Well-Being
The Population Council’s Girl Innovation Research and Learning Center (GIRL Center) published two new studies on global girls’ education, which challenge the long-held assumption [...]
New GIRL Center Research Challenges Key Assumptions on the Links Between Education and Girls’ Health and Well-being
December 17, 2019—The Population Council’s Girl Innovation Research and Learning Center (GIRL Center) published two new studies on global girls’ education, which challenge [...]
Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE): What do we know, and where do we go from here?
Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) enables young people to think broadly about the physical, emotional, and cognitive aspects of sexuality and enhances development of [...]
Ishraq Program: Increasing Girls’ Protective Assets in Rural Upper Egypt
Ishraq (Sunrise) is a flagship comprehensive second-chance program to improve the educational, health, and social outcomes for adolescent out-of-school girls, 12–15 years of [...]
Evidence for Gender and Education Resource (EGER)
The Evidence for Gender and Education Resource (EGER) seeks to address gender inequalities and injustices in global education. By providing easily accessible data [...]
Expanding Access to Secondary School Education for Teenage Mothers in Kenya
Homa Bay County in the former Nyanza Province of Kenya is characterized by high unintended teenage pregnancy rates. Despite a policy that allows [...]