Summit is committed to a world where people can thrive and nature can flourish—a world in which one is not sacrificed for the other.

Conserving the Mesoamerican Reef Empowering Youth – Girls’ Equality FirstSustainable Cities

Why Girls?

Summit believes that the global drive to eliminate poverty, achieve social justice, stabilize the world’s population and secure the environmental health of the planet will be fully realized when society promotes leadership, health and opportunity for youth, particularly girls.

Our Priorities

ADVANCING GIRLS’ EQUALITY (6 grants) Promote Girls’ Education and Economic Opportunity End Child Marriage Engage Boys and Men

EXPANDING ADOLESCENT SRH ACCESS (10 grants) Enhance Access to SRH Services and Information Strengthen Data Gathering and Evaluation

SUPPORTING YOUTH LEADERSHIP (4 grants) Fund Central American young leaders to implement innovative projects addressing girls’ equality

and ASRH

ACCELERATING GLOBAL MOMENTUM FOR GE AND ASRH (9 grants) Expand international, Latin American and U.S. commitments supporting girls’ equality and ASRH,

ensuring youth participation

The Coalition for Adolescent Girlscoalitionforadolescentgirls.org

The Girl Declaration girleffect.org

Current Council Research on Adolescent Girls

GuatemalaAbriendo

Oportunidades>5000 girls

GhanaSmart Girls

89 girls (pilot)

Burkina FasoMères

Éducatrices4000 girls and

Filles Eveillées400 girls

EgyptIshraq

1800 girls

South AfricaSiyakha Nentsha

1100 girls and boys

EthiopiaBerhane Hewan

12,000 girls (72,000 planned)

and Biruh Tesfa16,500 girls

(30,000 planned)

IndiaFirst Time Parents

1700 girlsand

Maharashtra Safe Spaces

150 girls (pilot)

Kenya and UgandaSafe and

Smart Savings2300 girls

BangladeshKishori Abhijan

15,000 girls

ZambiaAdolescent Girls Empowerment

Program12,000 girls (planned)

Council’s Programs for Adolescent Girls

en la escuela

unida o casada

con hijos

Fuente: Hallman, K., S. Peracca, J. Catino, M.J. Ruiz. 2005. “Causes of low school achievement and early transition to adulthood in Guatemala.” New York: Population Council.

Investing before it is too late

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GIRL POWER

THE WORLD BANK’S ADOLESCENT GIRLS INITIATIVE

About the• Launched on October 10, 2008

• Cumulative financing is ~ U.S. $22m.

• Partners are include the Nike Foundation, governments of Afghanistan, Australia, Denmark, Jordan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Liberia, Nepal, Norway, Rwanda, Southern Sudan, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

• Each program is individually tailored to the country context, with a common goal of discovering what works best to help adolescent girls and young women succeed in the labor market.

• Programs target disadvantaged young women 16-35

Pilots in 8 low-income countries

including some of the most challenging environments for girls

Components• Training in either business development skills for self employment, or in technical and vocational skills for wage employment.

• Most projects include life skills training to help girls deal with everyday challenges and improve skills that are linked to labor market outcomes.

• Some programs also provide personalized support and job intermediation services to help girls connect to labor market opportunities.

• Each pilot includes a rigorous impact evaluation.

Learning from practice

Design Lessons 

Selecting and recruiting adolescent girls

How to make youth employment programs “girl friendly”

Life skills in the AGI

Business development skills in the AGI

Incentive schemes in the AGI for improving results

Implementation Lessons 

Working with girls in difficult settings

Selecting vocations for girls

Engaging the private sector

Monitoring and Evaluation Lessons 

What does the AGI measure and how?

Setting up an M&E system

Program description• LIBERIA EPAG

• Implemented by Ministry of Gender and NGOs, funded by Nike through WB AGI. (Now scaled up w/ SIDA support.)

• Target girls age 16-27 with job or business skills training, placement/start-up support, life skills.

• UGANDA ELA• Run by BRAC, funded by Mastercard & Nike.• Provide girls 14-20 with safe space, life skills training, short

livelihoods training based on local market.

• NEPAL AGEI• Run by the Nepal Employment Fund, funded by Helvetas, Swiss

Development Corporation, and DfID.• Provide girls 16-24 with 134 separate training events, targeted

towards poorer, more vulnerable women.

Results• LIBERIA EPAG

• Employment up 30%, incomes up 80%, savings up.• Positive impacts on self-confidence, satisfaction, food security.

• UGANDA ELA• Employment up 30%, income up $32 over 6 months.• Childbearing down, contraceptive use up, incidence of forced sex

down.

• NEPAL AGEI• Employment up 40%, non-farm • employment up, incomes up 15%.• (other results pending).

Abriendo Oportunidades: a comprehensive peer education model

ObjectiveStrengthen adolescent girls assets and increase their life skills

Strategies:

• Identify safe spaces in communities

• Strengthen peer networks

• Exposure to alternative models

• Provide access to training and recreation (girls and their mothers)

• Partner with public and private sector

• Promote education, health, financial literacy, prevention of gender-based violence through a cascade leadership approach

Participants

Youth Leaders(+

100)

Interns (+ 50)

- Age 14 to 18- Participate in quarterly, 1

week education camps- Live in the community- Continue their education- Receive a monthly stipend- Become local role modelsAges 8-12 and 13-17

Participate in weekly, 2 hour sessions lead by Youth Leaders

(+ 4,000)

Cascade leadership approach: an effective strategy to learn and train

Mentors (+10)

- Age: 16 to 24 - Paid internship/scholarship- Intensive 3 month training- Have completed middle

school - Live in the community- Must enroll in highschool or

university- Contact with alternative

models

- Age: 22 to 26 - Former interns- Trained on M&E- Have completed one or

more years of university- Speak local languages- Become alternative models

for younger participants.

Repair the Social Contract: Public-private partnerships hand in hand with girls to build preventative health, social, and economic assets

secondary school

youth center

community center

development committee

roads and market

playing field

national savings

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Build assets that allow girls to make informed decisions

A Critical Mass to Address SRHR & Gender

Adolescent Pregnancy in Honduras

Of the 938,301 adolescent girls in Honduras aged 15 to 19, 24% have been pregnant at least once.

Encuesta Nacional de Demografía y Salud ENDESA 2011-2012 - Honduras

ENDESA 2005 ENDESA 2011-201222% 24%

Honduras has a youth population of 5,231,588

65%

35%

Youth Population

Older than 30

Younger than 30

INE. 2010.

% of adolescents pregnant or with children, by department

Pregnancy rate by age, 2005-2007

Age 2005 2007 + O -15 5.4 6.3 +16 11.7 16.7 +17 23.5 24.9 +18 31.6 34.0 +19 40.2 40.1 -

ENDESA 2005 VRS. 2011-2012

Education 2005 2011-2012 Total

No education 46.3 45.8 +

Elementary 1-3 42.1 47.2 +

Elementary 4-6 29.3 36.0 +

High school 10.8 19.9 +

College 2.2 0.9 -

Relationship Between Educational Attainment and Pregnancy

ENDESA 2005 VRS. 2011-2012

Adolescent Pregnancy by Residential Area

Residential Area 2005 2011-2012 +/-Urban 17.7 19.2 +Rural 26.0 29.3 +

ENDESA 2005 VRS. 2011-2012

AO communities: past, current and scale-up region

To date:50 communities5 departments6 linguistic regions

Scale up: • At least 75

communities in Q’eqchi’ language areas.

• Belize and Peten

The most vulnerable across the Central American region

Rural, female, indigenous, 0ut of school

Common challenges:• Access to

secondary education and health services

• Addressing adolescent pregancy

• Livelihoods

• Belize: average age 1st pregnancy: 17• Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala: around 1/3

of all women give birth before age 20.• Honduras: access to RHS services amongh

youth: 11.5%• Nicaragua: fertility rates: 2.8 (urban,

highschool), 4.9 (rural, no schooling)• Guatemala: Highest unmet need for FP:

25.6% (ages 15-19), 29.6% (indigenous, versus 15.1% non indigenous)

• Belize: Enrollment in school: national average 85.9%, Mayan girls 36%

Regional gaps

Where are we?

La Coalición Hondureña de Abogacía por los Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos de Adolescentes.

• Belize: average age 1st pregnancy: 17• Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala: around 1/3

of all women give birth before age 20.• Honduras: access to RHS services amongh

youth: 11.5%• Nicaragua: fertility rates: 2.8 (urban,

highschool), 4.9 (rural, no schooling)• Guatemala: Highest unmet need for FP:

25.6% (ages 15-19), 29.6% (indigenous, versus 15.1% non indigenous)

• Belize: Enrollment in school: national average 85.9%, Mayan girls 36%

Regional gaps