The Adolescent Girl Investment Plan (AGIP)
Welcome! We are the The Adolescent Girls Investment Plan (AGIP), a global, intergenerational, feminist coalition with members working with and for adolescent girls across advocacy, research, and at community level. We collaborate to drive political commitment, accountability and evidence-informed investment to create positive impact with and for adolescent girls in all their diversity.
Together with adolescent girls, we work to:
- Influence global decision-makers and advocate for increased commitments, investments, and accountability with and for adolescent girls.
- Generate, use, and share evidence and resources informed by lived experience, demonstrating ‘what works’ with and for adolescent girls.
- Model meaningful girl engagement and advocate for its integration across decision-making levels
2020-2025: Our work and impact
Advocacy
- AGIP led and co-hosted 12+ events at several key global advocacy platforms, including the Generation Equality Forum (GEF), the Women Deliver 2023 Conference (WD2023), the Global Forum for Adolescents (GFA), Commission on Status of Women (CSW), Summit of the Future (2024), and the United Nation General Assembly (UNGA). Through our collective expertise and consistent advocacy, we brought together global decision-makers and adolescent girls to ensure that the voices, recommendations, and leadership of adolescent girls is recognized.
- AGIP convened several member states, UN bodies, and sector peers to explore interest and ideas on government allyship towards accountability with and for adolescent girls in global advocacy and policy spaces.
Read more about AGIP’s advocacy efforts.
Evidence:
- AGIP published 12 field-building research studies on topics like the gendered impact of COVID-19 on adolescent girls; a landscape analysis of interventions that aim to promote adolescent girls’ empowerment and well-being in low- and middle-income countries; a trend analysis of ODI funding for adolescent girls; how to resource girls directly; and youth-led accountability systems.
- AGIP also proactively worked on increased dissemination and utilization of such research through advocacy briefs ahead of key global advocacy platforms amplified key insights from this evidence through virtual and in-person events, incorporated the findings in our calls to action on resourcing girls and girl-centric accountability mechanisms, and further worked on.
Explore our research and resources driving coalition action.
Girl and Youth Engagement: AGIP made significant progress on creating, modelling, and promoting best practices and guidance for the sector and beyond.
- Meaningfully engaged over 100+ adolescent girls and 40+ young women in key global advocacy platforms to ensure their voices inform the policies that directly impact their lives and disbursed over 30,000 USD to support adolescent girls’ engagement and recognize their time and expertise.
- Launched our own Adolescent Girls Advisory Committee to share power with adolescent girls in our internal decision-making and governance spaces.
- Generated resources on meaningful engagement of adolescent girls and safeguarding for young people in online spaces and presented our work during the She Decides Summit (2022), IDG Virtual Summit 2022, Freedom Fund’s internal learning session (2023), Shift the Power Global Summit (2023), and more.
- Delivered comprehensive recommendations as technical safeguarding partner for Women Deliver 2023 Conference, directly impacting over 1200+ young people and all conference attendees.
Learn more about AGIP’s Meaningful Girl Engagement model
Membership and governance: Expanded from 8 to 18 member organizations, launched two global strategies in collaboration with members and adolescent girls, and evolved our Board composition to include adolescent girls.
Discover our collective impact over the first five years in the AGIP Impact Report 2019–2024
What the girls we work with say:
| On AGAC experience: “Being part of AGAC was both inspiring and grounding. I realised how much there is to learn, especially through the care, intention, and capacity of the AGIP Secretariat. The experience has sparked new ideas for community capacity-building in my own country, and I truly cherish this journey.” | ~Jaliyah, AGIP Girl Advisor, Cohort 1 (2023–2025) |
| On co-creation experience: “Seeing my pitch idea turn into the AGAC handbook was incredibly powerful. The way the team embraced and strengthened the idea showed me what real co-creation looks like where every voice is valued and reflected in decision-making.” | ~Misati, AGIP Girl Advisor and Board Member, Cohort 1 (2023–2025) |
| On co-creating and co-facilitating the CSW69 event: “Co-moderating the CSW69 event was an honor. The diversity of voices from young leaders to policymakers made the conversation rich and meaningful. Strong preparation and clear communication from the AGIP team made the experience empowering and seamless.” | ~Sandra, Girl Leader, Plan International USA |
| “The great and amazing support I had from [the] AGIP group was very helpful [and] very useful, […]in reaching information, understanding context.” | ~Sarah Youth co-leader of GEF One Year On event |
