Adolescent Girls Prospective Cohort Study in Nigeria
The Population Council’s Girl Innovation, Research, and Learning (GIRL) Center, with funding from the Children Investment Fund Foundation, is implementing a longitudinal cohort study to [...]
Assessment of Livelihood and Skills Development Opportunities for Young Rohingya Populations in Bangladesh
For the past five years Bangladesh has been hosting in Cox’s Bazar District more than a million Rohingyas forcibly displaced from Myanmar. The Bangladesh [...]
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, [...]
Integrating Health and Nutrition Messages into Self-Help Groups
The states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, India account for around half of the country’s maternal and child disease burden. Three out of every [...]
Sahel Women’s Empowerment and Demographic Dividend (SWEDD)
In the Sahel region of West Africa, extensive poverty and inequality hinder social and economic stability and development. Recurring conflicts, epidemics, natural disasters, and [...]
To Build a Green Economy, We Must Engage Women and Girls
The theme of Earth Day this year is “Invest In Our Planet,” a call on governments, businesses, and citizens to move away from our [...]
We Need a Pro-Poor and Pro-Black Response to COVID-19
In a newly published op-ed in Think Global Health, the Council's Thoai Ngo underscores the importance of a United States national response to the COVID-19 [...]
Multi-Country Study Finds Women Who Give Birth Before 18 Are Economically Impacted for Life
A new study, conducted by the Population Council and with Women Deliver, found a strong and consistent lifelong negative association between giving birth before [...]