Biruh Tesfa (“Bright Future”)
The Biruh Tesfa Project established safe spaces girls’ groups for out-of-school migrants and domestic workers in low-income urban areas of Ethiopia. Biruh Tesfa (Bright [...]
NISITU: Engaging Men and Boys in Girl-Centered Programming
Evidence from several studies, including in Kenya, supports the idea that empowerment and asset-building interventions targeting multiple levels of the socio-ecological environment can improve [...]
“SAUTI”/VOICE: Violence Response and Prevention through Information, Communication, and Evidence
The global refugee crisis is one of the most significant challenges of the 21st century. Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) exacerbates the already dire [...]
More Than Brides Alliance
Child marriage is a violation of human rights, impedes sustainable development, and often has lasting negative impacts on health, education, and access to income-generation [...]
Evaluating the Nia Project
For many adolescent girls around the world, puberty is a vulnerable time when girls face various pressures and challenges—including sexual harassment, abuse, early marriage, [...]
Supporting Operational AIDS Research (Project SOAR)
Recent advances in the global HIV response hold great promise for achieving control of the HIV epidemic. With support from the President’s Emergency Plan [...]
Adolescent Girls Empowerment Program
Social isolation, economic vulnerability, and lack of access to health care prevent healthy transitions from girlhood to womanhood, especially for vulnerable adolescent girls in [...]
Developing and Testing a Griffithsin (non-ARV) Microbicide
The Population Council has been a leader in research on and development of microbicides since the 1990s. Today, we are developing user-controlled prevention methods [...]