This video features a session run at the 2019 global conference featuring Arman Rahmatullah, CEO of Teach For Afghanistan, and Sunita Waiba, Student Leader, on the subject of empowering girls through education.

The Girl Consultation Toolkit includes a selection of tools to help hear from girls, understand their lives, uncover the issues and challenges they face and gather their opinions on how they want the world to change. This toolkit provides guidance to set up a workshop, run activities and analyze findings. It can be adapted as required to suit different requirements. Each of the tools outlined can be used either together or on their own.

Drawing on the Young Lives study of childhood poverty in Ethiopia, India (United Andhra Pradesh), Peru and Vietnam, this brief explores different dimensions of rural girls’ growth, learning and development over childhood and adolescence. Social protection, investment in rural schools, support for water, sanitation and nutrition, and support to address rural girls’ heavy workloads and to delay marriage are priority interventions if the Sustainable Development Goals are to be achieved and rural girls and young women are to fulfil their potential.

A report on adolescents with disabilities, designed for governments with resources for how to take action.

An evaluation of a girls' empowerment project in Uganda that effectively supported adolescent girls' empowerment four years post-intervention.

Information about CAMFED's highly regarded and impactful Learner Guides program.

A study on risk-taking in female-led and male-dominated cultures.

Article about women's smartphone use in India.

Report about mobile phone use for women in low- and middle-income countries

Illuminating paper about interventions in Northern Nigeria that sought to reduce early marriage. The study found that interventions had some benefit, but that real change for the girls was only possible alongside poverty alleviation, counseling, and other measures that increase stability and security in the girls' lives. Skill-building alone will not work.

A commissioned report on how entrepreneurship can positively impact women's empowerment.

An award-winning curriculum that supports girls and their allies in advocating for girls' empowerment. This Let Girls Lead workshop guide is based on experiential learning, connecting participants more deeply to one another and deepening their knowledge of new concepts presented during the workshop. It provides opportunities for participants to collaboratively incorporate new information in a safe setting where they can try out new skills and knowledge and integrate constructive feedback from peers and colleagues. Available in English and Spanish.

A helpful toolkit for those seeking to build mentorship programs for girls.

Abstract: "Exploiting a randomized natural experiment in India, this study shows that female leadership influences adolescent girls’ career aspirations and educational attainment. A 1993 law reserved leadership positions for women in randomly selected village councils. Authors found that, compared to villages that were never reserved, the gender gap in aspirations closed by 25% in parents and 32% in adolescents in villages assigned to a female leader for two election cycles. The gender gap in adolescent educational attainment is erased and girls spent less time on household chores. The study finds no evidence of changes in young women’s labor market opportunities, suggesting that the impact of women leaders primarily reflects a role model effect."

A study on the positive long-term effects on girls and women of providing secondary school scholarships.

Anil Paudel, 2019 Echidna Global Scholar, discusses the importance of investing in a gender-transformative TVET education to help improve girls’ real-world employability.

The review confirms the positive impacts of education on girls’ and women’s empowerment and livelihoods. The effects of education on women’s future livelihoods largely depend on the presence of economic opportunities and supportive social norms, which are themselves underpinned by education (notably secondary education) of boys as well as girls.

Requires registration. A link to sign up to use part of Girl Rising's girls' empowerment curriculum.

This clip features Sunita Waiba of Nepal speaking about her lived experiences with gender inequality in her community. Watch for a powerful example of student voice, leadership, and activism.

This clip features Arman Rahmatullah of Afghanistan providing an in-depth look into the challenges around teaching girls in his country. He provides a powerful and hopeful example of how Teach For Afghanistan has made traction despite the odds.

A video produced by the Population Council on mentorship programs for girls.