Abriendo Futuros (Opening Futures) for Rural Indigenous Girls in Yucatan, Mexico
Abriendo Futuros (AF) is a girl-centered program aiming at improving the current and future life of Mayan adolescent girls (MAGs) in Yucatán. The program [...]
Evaluating the Complex Relationships Between Social and Natural Systems
Employing an interdisciplinary approach, researchers unearth the coupled and complex relationships between social systems (e.g., human relationships, behaviors, and dynamics) and natural systems (e.g., [...]
Selam Medirashachin (Safe Arrival)
Adolescent girls and young women in low- and middle-income countries are migrating from rural to urban areas in ever greater numbers. This increase in [...]
Child Domestic Workers
There are an estimated 17.2 million child domestic workers globally, most of whom are girls. Despite their large numbers, research related to this marginalized [...]
Berhane Hewan Ethiopia
Berhane Hewan (Light for Eve, in Amharic) was a community-based intervention designed to both prevent child marriage and support girls who were already married [...]
Strengthening Capacities of Egyptian Researchers to Study Issues Related to Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health
With funds from the Ford Foundation, the Population Council/Egypt implemented a series of projects to build the capacity of junior researchers in Egypt to [...]
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 age, [...]
Addressing Family Planning Needs of Male and Female Factory Workers in Egypt
Across eight garment factories in Port Said’s Free Investment Zone, the Council’s Evidence Project implemented a program to connect 18- to 35-year-old male and [...]