Our Strategy: Action and Accountability for Adolescent Girls
AGIP’s 2025–2027 Strategy was co-developed by AGIP Members and Girl Advisors from AGAC and approved by the Board in March 2025. It reflects the coalition’s sharpened priorities, deepened commitments, and collective direction for the next three years. This strategy centers adolescent girls in all their diversity, placing their leadership, safety and inclusion at the heart of our work. It reinforces the need for political commitment, evidence-informed investment, and robust accountability to achieve meaningful and lasting change.
Why now
With 1.3 billion adolescents worldwide, half of whom are girls, their unique needs and opportunities remain overlooked and under-resourced in the larger development agenda. Even with increasing commitments made at several global advocacy and policy platforms since the Beijing Platform for Action in 1995, such platforms continue to lack accountability mechanisms that meaningfully include girls, and many girl-targeted investments do not reach girls directly.
The current context of shrinking civic space, defunding of development programs, and rollback on rights exacerbates these challenges. AGIP’s new strategy responds to these threats by strengthening collective action on girl-centered accountability, focusing on uptake of evidence, and setting a higher standard of meaningful girl engagement and safeguarding for the sector.
Global leadership
We represent high-impact girl-centered organizations worldwide, enabling access to global decision-making spaces.
Our strategic objectives
Advocacy
We leverage our collective strength to influence global decision-makers and advocate for increased commitments, investments and accountability with and for adolescent girls.
- Goal: By the end of 2027, AGIP will have successfully influenced key decision-makers and advocacy spaces to recognise, include and invest in the unique needs of adolescent girls. AGIP will play a leading role in holding governments and the sector to account for their girl-centred commitments.
Evidence
We draw on our members’ technical expertise to generate, use and share evidence and resources informed by lived experience, demonstrating ‘what works’ with and for adolescent girls.
- Goal: By the end of 2027, AGIP will have significantly contributed to evidence-informed investments for adolescent girls, advocated for co-led research, and facilitated the dissemination of evidence across the sector.
Meaningful Girl Engagement
Our approach to meaningful girl engagement and safeguarding guides everything we do.
- Goal: By the end of 2027, all AGIP members will have modelled meaningful girl engagement and driven its integration across decision-making levels. AGIP will set the standard for girl advisory models and safeguarding best practice in the sector.