About the Platform
The Accountability Champions Platform (ACP) aims to bring together multi-sectoral stakeholders to promote and ensure accountability for the protection of the rights and wellbeing of adolescent girls while modelling girl-centered accountability mechanisms in global advocacy and policy spaces.
In the medium-term, AGIP will unite interested governments to practice and promote accountability in global advocacy and policy spaces. In the long-term, AGIP aims for a global movement that supports girl-inclusive accountability and empowers girls’ leadership in decision-making at the UN and beyond, in line with the post-2030 agenda.
As a part of this Platform, AGIP commits to generating, collating, and amplifying research, guidance, toolkits on girl-centered and girl-led accountability mechanisms supporting each commitment category, made available and easily accessible to all members.
This Platform is anchored in the belief that gender equality commitments can only be fully achieved through robust accountability systems that include girls. By engaging high-level stakeholders like government representatives, AGIP’s Accountability Initiative seeks to increase the political momentum and accountability on advancing commitments made towards girls’ rights in such spaces. This approach is not limited to the symbolic inclusion of girls but seeks to fundamentally reshape how accountability is understood and practiced at the global level when it comes to gender equality. By mobilizing governments and securing their commitments, the initiative will strengthen the inclusion of adolescent girls in the accountability frameworks within which gender equality goals are pursued, ensuring that they are not sidelined or diluted over time.
The governments of Canada and Sierra Leone have both signed onto our platform as Accountability Champions as part of their work to turn their promises to adolescent girls into action.
Girl-Centered Accountability Charter
A key component of the ACP is the Girl-Centered Accountability Charter a concise, eight-point framework that urges stakeholders to move beyond commitments and adopt tangible, actionable steps to model and practice girl-centered accountability and accelerate the progress towards gender equality. It is not a checklist or an exhaustive guide, but a living and evolving tool designed to make girl-centered accountability accessible and practical.
2025 ACP Annual Updates
With the launch of AGIP’s new 2025–2027 strategy, Action and Accountability for Adolescent Girls, accountability has become even more integral across all areas of our work.
In 2025, AGIP made steady progress through a coordinated ACP Taskforce comprising ActionAid UK, Amplify Girls, Akili Dada, GAGE, IPPF, ICRW, Plan International, Women Deliver, and Save the Children. Together, we convened meaningful engagements such as the in-person CSW69 event and a virtual knowledge-sharing session while also reviewing the rapidly shifting political landscape and refining our government engagement approach to ensure continued relevance and impact.
Beyond public events, AGIP has been working intensively behind the scenes with girls, governments, and peer organisations to mainstream accountability conversations, strengthen practices, and amplify existing models that are already driving impact.
Internally, AGIP continues to review and adapt its approaches to remain grounded in its core values of intergenerational leadership and meaningful girl engagement. This includes launching the second cohort of Adolescent Girls Advisory Committee in November 2025 to continue sharing decision-making power, strengthening government engagement through its members’ networks, fostering sector solidarity through cross-learning spaces, and producing accessible, girl-centered advocacy briefs ahead of key global advocacy and policy moments.
Overall, as funding declines, political and social pushback intensifies, and adolescent girls continue to be excluded from decision-making spaces, AGIP is more committed than ever to advancing a girl-centered accountability agenda.
Read More:
- CSW69 event Summary report (Mar’25)
Join Us to Support Girl-Centered Accountability
Become an Accountability Champion
Government representatives, especially from ministries related to girls’ rights mandates, are encouraged to sign-up to at least one of the actions in the Girl-centered Accountability Charter and become a Global Accountability Champion with AGIP. Becoming a Champion is a statement of solidarity with adolescent girls, a crucial opportunity to lead by example, and ensure girls’ voices are heard and valued in actions after girl-centered commitments are made. Core functions of this Champions group includes holding one another to account to deliver on commitments made for adolescent girls across policy, practice, and sectors as well as inspiring more governments to adopt girl-centered accountability practices such that girl’s leadership can be strengthened in all key policy-making spaces.
If you are interested, please fill out the form below and one of the AGIP secretariat colleague will be in touch with more information.
Endorse the Charter
Young people aged 10-24, UN bodies, and civil-society organisations working on gender equality or girls’ rights are encouraged to endorse the Charter and help drive accountability for girl-centered commitments around the world.
If you are interested, please fill out the form below and one of the AGIP secretariat colleague will be in touch with more information.