Who We Are
The Adolescent Girls Investment Plan (AGIP) is a global, intergenerational, feminist coalition of members working with and for adolescent girls across advocacy, research, and at the community level.
Our Vision
A world where girls have the voice, choice, and agency to determine their own futures, supported by holistic investment that responds to the full complexity of girls’ lives and needs.
Our Mission
To drive political commitment, accountability, and evidence-informed investment to create positive impact with and for adolescent girls in all their diversity.
Our Founding Story
AGIP was founded by eight girl-centered organizations – Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence, Girls Not Brides, International Center for Research on Women, International Planned Parenthood Federation, Malala Fund, Plan International, Save the Children, and Women Deliver, in 2019 to address a critical gap: despite global commitments to gender equality, adolescent girls remained underfunded, underrepresented, and unheard.
AGIP was formally established in 2020 with financial support from the Gates Foundation and Ford Foundation.
Launched during a moment of heightened momentum for gender equality, AGIP’s initial purpose was to influence political, intergovernmental, and funding spaces with accessible evidence and tools to support change for adolescent girls at a national and local level. From 2021 through 2024, AGIP grew into a recognized coalition, bringing together more mission-aligned organizations committed to shifting power to adolescent girls and influencing policy and funding through evidence and accountability frameworks.
AGIP, now a coalition of 18 organizations, launched its 2025-2027 Strategy (hyperlink) in June 2025 to keep driving political commitment, accountability, and evidence-informed investment with and for girls.
Read more about our current strategy (2025-2027)
Why We Exist
Adolescence is a crucial development stage, yet girls across the globe face great barriers rooted in oppressive social norms and cultural stereotypes. Often adolescent girls’ unique needs are neither recognised by children’s nor women’s movements. We know that failure to appropriately invest in adolescent girls – particularly the most marginalised – is a threat to girls’ healthy, productive lives, and undermines progress on gender equality and global development.
- Global threats to adolescent girls
Around the world, the marginalisation faced by adolescent girls is exacerbated by a rise in polarization, shrinking civic space, sector defunding, and accelerating rollback on rights.
- Lack of accountability
Global processes lack formal accountability or reporting mechanisms that meaningfully include girls, and many girl-targeted investments do not reach girls directly.
- Low evidence uptake and knowledge-sharing
Robust evidence is not readily available and existing evidence is not effectively used to drive impact for adolescent girls, or made accessible to the girls themselves. In addition, there are not enough spaces for the sector to share critical knowledge and learnings.
Our Focus Areas
Advocacy
We leverage our collective strength to influence global decision-makers and advocate for increased commitments, investments, and accountability with and for adolescent girls. Read more about our Advocacy work here
Evidence
We draw on our members’ technical expertise to generate, share, and promote evidence on what works for and with adolescent girls. Read more about our Evidence work here
Meaningful Girl Engagement
Our approach to meaningful girl engagement (MGE) and safeguarding guides everything we do. Read more about our MGE work here