Power, Voice, and Agency: Empowering Adolescent Girls and Young Women through Multiple Interventions for Evidence-Informed Contraceptive Decisions
This blog is part of a series in partnership with Population Council, Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition (RHSC), and Population Services International (PSI), to recognize World [...]
The Girl Agenda Cannot Wait! Collaboration and Multi-Dimensional Investments Needed for Adolescent Girls’ Empowerment
The call to invest in girls’ and women’ empowerment during the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68) is [...]
Supporting Women in their Public Health Careers
Globally, women represented approximately 33% of researchers between 2015 and 2018 (UNESCO Science Report 2021, Fig. 3.4) and while there have been strides [...]
Fulfilling the Radical Power of Education
The radical power and potential of education must be both leveraged and revitalized in the face not only of a global learning crisis [...]
The Population Council Launches New Global Innovation Hub on Education and Groundbreaking Analysis to Tackle the Global Learning Crisis
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 7, 2023 Media contact: Joe Shaffner, Director of Communications, The Population Council, pubinfo@popcouncil.org New York City, [...]
Areas of Focus
GEJE works across five priority areas. Breaking down structural barriers to education. Millions of children are unable to attend school due to systemic, [...]
Highlights
Ensure sexual and reproductive health, rights, and choices The Population Council tackles intersecting inequalities that undermine rights and access to contraception, HIV [...]
From the President
An equitable and sustainable future for everyone, everywhere The world is confronting multiple social, economic, political, and environmental crises that risk reversing decades [...]
Global researcher Dr. Thoai Ngo on “Growing Up in Uncertain Times”
This repost appears courtesy of the UNC School of Social Work. On Monday, Nov. 13, at 5:30 p.m. in UNC School [...]
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 [...]
78th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 78)
The Population Council is thrilled to be hosting several side events during the 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 78) in New York City. [...]
Promoting Opportunities for Adolescent Girls in the Sahel Region through Evidence-Informed Programming
This A3 Insights describes key elements of the Population Council’s work on the Sahel Women’s Empowerment and Demographic Dividend initiative (SWEDD), which aims [...]