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December 10, 2025

AGIP Members Take to the Global Stage: Girls’ Voices, Feminist Action, and Collective Power in November

Advocacy, What We Do

November has been exceptionally busy for AGIP member organizations. Our members have been driving bold, girl-centered advocacy across major global convenings from the Second World Summit for Social Development (WSSD2) and the Seventh International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP), to the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30). Across these global spaces, one theme is clear: girls and young women are shaping international agendas with power, clarity, and a demand for justice. 

Below is a snapshot of how AGIP members have been driving commitments, investments, and accountability with and for adolescent girls worldwide.  

Calling for Investment in Adolescent Girls at (WSSD2)

At the Second World Summit for Social Development (WSSD2) from 4-6 November in Doha, Qatar, AGIP members, GAGE, Malala Fund, Plan International, along with UNGEI and the Government of Chile, co-hosted the event “Resourcing adolescent girls: sustainable solutions towards financing girls’ rights,” bringing together government and private sector representatives, philanthropic organizations, girls and youth activists, and wider civil society to progress sustainable solutions to financing and delivering adolescent girls’ rights in all their diversity. 

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October 9, 2025

GIRLS’ LEADERSHIP IN ACTION: Celebrations and Lessons From AGIP’s First Adolescent Girls Advisory Committee 

MGE and Safeguarding, Stay Updated

This handbook was co-created by AGIP Cohort 1 Girl Advisors Darshana, Jaliyah, Luisa, Misati, Nhi, Paola, Rushna, Vanessa, and Ximena, together with AGIP’s Youth Engagement and Advocacy Specialist, Pooja.

It captures key celebrations, lessons, and insights from AGIP’s first Adolescent Girls Advisory Committee (AGAC), with the hope of inspiring more organisations to embed girl-centered decision-making at the heart of their work. It calls on all allies for girls’ rights to champion intergenerational leadership by creating meaningful spaces—such as Advisory Bodies—where girls can actively shape the policies, programs, and interventions that impact their lives.

We hope reading this handbook brings you as much insight and inspiration as we found in creating it together.

This Handbook is available in English, Spanish, and French.

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FRENCH VERSION
ENGLISH VERSION

March 12, 2025

Towards Inclusive Systems: Understanding Adolescent Girls’ Engagement, Challenges, and Demands for System-led Accountability ​

Research, What We Do

 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 explores:
✔️ The mechanisms girls are using to hold systems accountable to their commitments.
✔️ The challenges and opportunities they face in engaging with decision-makers.
✔️ A model accountability platform designed by adolescent girls, adaptable across different countries.
✔️ Key recommendations to strengthen system accountability to adolescent girls’ needs.

This report is a valuable resource for policymakers, practitioners, and organizations seeking to centre adolescent girls in governance and decision-making. It highlights the power of adolescent-led accountability and provides a roadmap for ensuring their voices shape policies that affect them.

Download the report in English, Spanish and French.

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March 12, 2025

Investing in Adolescent Girls: Mapping the Donor Landscape (2022 Update)

Research, Stay Updated, What We Do

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 Official Development Assistance (ODA) flows, examining funding gaps, trends, and donor priorities while identifying actionable recommendations to ensure robust investments in adolescent girls’ well-being and development. 

Download the full research report here or the webinar report here.

Learn more about AGIP Research here.

November 12, 2024

Resourcing girls: The potential and challenges of girl- and youth-led organising

Research, Stay Updated, What We Do

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 work across low-and middle-income country contexts, and aims to understand the characteristics, contributions, and challenges of girl-and youth-led organisations. It highlights the global focus on gender equality and girls’ rights, emphasizing the increasing visibility of these issues in development commitments yet the complexities in translating these into tangible benefits for girls.

It draws on a rapid evidence review of secondary literature and key informant interviews with girl-and youth-led organisation members, intermediary organisations involved in funding girl- and youth-led groups and monitoring and evaluation experts to understand the contributions and impact of girl-and youth-led initiatives within the broader ecosystem of adolescent and youth empowerment and development as well to investigate the challenges they face in carrying out and expanding their work. The report concludes with reflections and key recommendations stemming from the research.

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September 19, 2024

Beyond commitments: Championing a new Girl-Centred Accountability Charter

Advocacy, What We Do

The Girl-Centered Accountability Charter, launched at the Summit of the Future Action Days 2024, is the keystone of AGIP’s Global Accountability Champions Platform. The Charter outlines 8 actions for governments to model and promote accountability with and for adolescent girls in global advocacy and policy platforms.  

Governments which sign the Charter become ‘Accountability Champions’ and make a public pledge to be accountable to their girl-centred commitments, lead by example, and influence other powerholders to practice accountability.  

Young people, UN bodies and girl-centered organisations can also support the initiative by endorsing the Charter and show solidarity with adolescent girls globally.  

Download the Event Summary report.

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September 19, 2023

Investing in adolescent girls: Key changes in the bilateral donor funding landscape – 2021 updateInvesting in adolescent girls

Research, Stay Updated, What We Do

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 promise to leave no one behind, robust and disaggregated data collection efforts that capture inequalities faced by adolescents are paramount to drive smart investment.

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August 23, 2023

Where is the Money? Funding adolescent girls and young feminist

Advocacy, What We Do

On 18 July 2023, through an intergenerational dialogue hosted by adolescent girls, AGIP brought together adolescent girls, young feminist-led organisations, donors, researchers, and intermediary civil society organisations to identify challenges, showcase innovative solutions, and workshop what needs to shift to make funding more accessible for adolescent girls and young feminist-led initiatives.

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July 19, 2023

Investing in Adolescent Girls: Key Changes in the bilateral donor funding landscape – 2021 Update

Research, What We Do

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 by girls and youth (Arutynova et al., 2022; Salley, 2019; Mama Cash and FRIDA The Young Feminist Fund, 2018). To date, however, there is limited evidence on how much funding is currently invested in adolescent-and youth-led organisations.

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