AGIP leverages its members’ technical expertise to generate, collate, and amplify research and resources on holistic investment and ‘what works’ for adolescent girls and youth, grounded in their lived experiences and using girl-centred approaches. Our research offers insights into areas concerning adolescent girls which are not yet sufficiently addressed and informs key stakeholders on girl-centered policymaking, programming, and advocacy.
So far AGIP has published several pieces of research on topics like the gendered impact of COVID-19 on adolescent girls; gauging the efficacy of the SDG framework to make visible specific challenges faced by adolescents during COVID-19; a landscape analysis of interventions that aim to promote adolescent girls’ empowerment and wellbeing in low- and middle-income countries; a trend analysis of funding for adolescent girls; how to resource girls directly; and youth-led accountability systems.
Using this data, we leverage our collective strength to influence global decision-making spaces and advocate for increased investments, commitments, and accountability with and for adolescent girls and youth. We engage with high-level decision-makers like government representatives and UN bodies to recognise, include, and invest in the unique needs of adolescent girls and youth so that more power and resources are shifted to adolescent girls and young feminist-led organizations.
On this page, you will find all our research publications.
AGIP Research publications
On investing in adolescent girls
December 2024 Investing in adolescent girls: Key changes in the bilateral donor funding landscape – 2022 update I GAGE
March 2024 Resourcing girls: The potential and challenges of girl- and youth-led organising I GAGE
July 2023 Investing in adolescent girls Key changes in the bilateral donor funding landscape – 2021 update I GAGE
January 2023 Investing in adolescent girls: mapping global and national funding patterns from 2016-2020 I GAGE
On girl engagement, progress, and accountability
December 2024 Towards Inclusive Systems: Understanding Adolescent Girls’ Engagement, Challenges and Demands for System-led Accountability I ICRW
November 2024 Participatory research with young people: a toolkit I GAGE
June 2023 From advocacy to action: Lessons on girl- and youth-led systems accountability in India, Kenya, and Uganda I ICRW
September 2021 Adolescents, youth and the SDGs: what can we learn from the current data? I GAGE
On the gendered impact of COVID-19
July 2021 Adolescent girls and COVID-19: Mapping the evidence on interventions Report I Population Council & The Evidence Map (an interactive tool highlighting the gaps in research concerning adolescent girl programming)
April 2021 ‘Some got married, others don’t want to attend school as they are involved in income-generation’: Adolescent experiences following covid-19 lockdowns in low- and middle-income countries I GAGE
August 2020 I have nothing to feed my family’: Covid-19 risk pathways for adolescent girls in low- and middle-income countries I GAGE
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Towards Inclusive Systems: Understanding Adolescent Girls’ Engagement, Challenges, and Demands for System-led Accountability
Adolescent girls must be at the heart of policies and decisions that shape their lives. To drive meaningful change, they need the skills, resources, and platforms to amplify their voices, hold governments accountable, and influence decision-making processes. This research, in partnership with ICRW Asia, presents an Accountability Framework co-developed with adolescent girls from India, Nepal, Cambodia, Kenya, Tanzania, Cameroon, and Mexico. It
Investing in Adolescent Girls: Mapping the Donor Landscape (2022 Update)
The 2022 update of the “Investing in Adolescent Girls” report provides a comprehensive review of global bilateral donor funding dedicated to adolescent girls. The analysis reveals both progress and persistent challenges in achieving equitable and sustainable investments for this demographic. This research, part of the AGIP-GAGE series Investing in Adolescent Girls, maps the latest donor
Resourcing girls: The potential and challenges of girl- and youth-led organising
Young people have been hailed as torchbearers of gender equality and as key actors in identifying and implementing solutions our world urgently requires. This said, understanding how girl- and youth-led organisations operate and their positioning within the ecosystem of gender equality and social change efforts requires careful examination. This report explores the experiences of girl-and youth-led
Investing in adolescent girls: Key changes in the bilateral donor funding landscape – 2021 updateInvesting in adolescent girls
Investing in adolescent girls can bring significant returns. There are currently 1.8 billion young people between the ages of 10 and 24 years globally, and most of them (90%) live in low-and middle-income (LMIC) countries. In order to understand the unique challenges faced by adolescent girls in particular, and effectively deliver on the Agenda 2030’s
Investing in Adolescent Girls: Key Changes in the bilateral donor funding landscape – 2021 Update
Amplifying girls’ voices and visibility has been highlighted as a key approach both to ensure programming aims to meet their needs, and to increase young people’s voice, agency and participation in decisions that affect their lives – both as individuals and collectively. There have been growing calls to increase funding to movements and organisations led
From Advocacy To Action
A significant proportion of the global population is comprised of adolescents and young people, with an estimated 1.2 billion individuals aged between 10 and 24 years old – the largest ever cohort in history. Adolescence defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the phase of life between the ages of 10 to 19 years
Investing in adolescent girls: mapping global and national funding patterns from 2016-2020
The Investing in Adolescent Girls Report by GAGE produces a comprehensive snapshot of investments in adolescent girls’ development as well as identifies which aspects of girls’ lives and well-being the funds are directed to, so as to facilitate a discussion on key priorities for future investments.
Young Leaders’ Experiences and Recommendations to Strategically Tackle Child, Early, and Forced Marriage
Tackling the drivers and outcomes of child marriage requires the voices of young activists and researchers as we are able to bring a fresh perspective to understanding the pressures that adolescent girls face in our communities and contribute ideas about solutions that will resonate in our specific contexts. In this commentary, we bring together the
Adolescents, youth and the SDGs: What can we learn from the current data?
This report by GAGE, on behalf of AGIP, investigates what we know about adolescent and youth well-being based on available SDG indicator data, and the extent to which data are usefully disaggregated and reported. The report answers three overarching questions:
Adolescent Girls and COVID-19:Mapping the evidence on interventions
With the COVID-19 crisis continuing to evolve, evidence on the effectiveness of short-term emergency-oriented responses and long-term mitigation strategies is expanding but still limited. There are, and will continue to be, substantial evidence gaps on programming to address risk across outcomes of importance to adolescent girls. More evidence is needed to slow the risks posed
