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 [...]
Unlocking Potential: Bridging the Gap in Early Childhood Education For a Brighter Future
On this International Literacy Day, let us realize that universal foundational literacy and numeracy skills among children cannot be achieved without universal access to [...]
Girls Deliver: Building an Integrated Ecosystem for Adolescent Girls
Convening Diverse Stakeholders to Integrate Action for Adolescent Girls The Population Council’s GIRL Center kicked off Women Deliver 2023 with intention and action [...]
The Radical Potential of Education
“The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy” – bell hooks Voices for Girls’ Education At Women Deliver 2023 [...]
Girls Deliver: Building an Integrated, Feminist Ecosystem to Support Adolescent Girls at the Women Deliver 2023 Conference
July 10, 2023 — The Population Council’s GIRL Center, and co-hosts AFIDEP, AMPLIFY Girls, Baobab Research Programme Consortium, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, Coalition [...]