. Women, girls, children, elderly people, persons with disabilities, and indigenous peoples,- especially in lower …-income countries — are often disproportionately affected by disasters. Emerging evidence suggests that violence against women and girls …

identify key entry points to address Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG). This review sought to identify VAWG prevention …

Women and girls play a key role in agriculture and food systems. Globally, women and girls play an important role in … related to food security. In this context, integrating measures to prevent and respond to Violence Against Women and Girls …

"The apparently inexorable rise in the proportion of "missing girls" in much of East and South Asia has attracted much … less masculinization. This suggests that, with continuing vigorous efforts to reduce son preference, the "missing girls …

Sex ratio at birth, the number of boys born for every 100 girls, has increased in the South Caucasus in the past … decades. A World Bank study sought to produce rigorous and supporting evidence on the issue of “missing girls” in the South …

crisis would have on girls and women and their human capital. Two years into the crisis, this brief summarizes the evidence …, employment and empowerment of girls and women including in SSA. Available data is still limited, but what is known to date … suggests that we are seeing the tip of an iceberg. Many impacts will have long term repercussions for girls' and women's human …

Adolescent girls are viewed as a key demographic group to target for successfully breaking the intergenerational … transmission of poverty in developing countries. Unfortunately, for many teenage girls in developing countries, adolescence entails … childbearing; and/or (3) delay marriage for adolescent girls in developing countries. The focus is on these three outcomes because …

approaches: First, it is difficult to assess the cost-effectiveness of most of the initiatives. Second, since girls' education is …