In the latest Socialprotection.org social protection podcast, in partnership with Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Supporting Adolescent Girls Through Social Protection: a Turning Point for Inclusion, Young Lives’ Deputy Director Kath Ford discusses why investing in adolescent girls is essential for building inclusive, resilient, climate-adaptive societies — alongside Dr Nyasha Tirivayi from UNICEF Innocenti and Eunice Tumwebaze from the Kampala Capital City Authority in Uganda.
Young Lives evidence shows how emerging gender inequalities during adolescence, exacerbated by poverty and other inequalities, can have long-term, intergenerational impacts, highlighting two key areas:
- Unpaid care work — girls in particular are spending a lot of time on unpaid care work, which impacts their education, employment opportunities and leisure time.
- Early marriage and parenthood — adolescent girls are at greater risk of early marriage and parenthood, impacting their schooling and education outcomes, as well as their sense of well-being and empowerment, with implications for the next generation.
Kath also explains how crises — climate change, conflict, COVID-19 — intensify these challenges and why it's important to build long-term, inter-agency relationships to build informed, targeted social protection.
In the latest Socialprotection.org social protection podcast, in partnership with Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Supporting Adolescent Girls Through Social Protection: a Turning Point for Inclusion, Young Lives’ Deputy Director Kath Ford discusses why investing in adolescent girls is essential for building inclusive, resilient, climate-adaptive societies — alongside Dr Nyasha Tirivayi from UNICEF Innocenti and Eunice Tumwebaze from the Kampala Capital City Authority in Uganda.
Young Lives evidence shows how emerging gender inequalities during adolescence, exacerbated by poverty and other inequalities, can have long-term, intergenerational impacts, highlighting two key areas:
- Unpaid care work — girls in particular are spending a lot of time on unpaid care work, which impacts their education, employment opportunities and leisure time.
- Early marriage and parenthood — adolescent girls are at greater risk of early marriage and parenthood, impacting their schooling and education outcomes, as well as their sense of well-being and empowerment, with implications for the next generation.
Kath also explains how crises — climate change, conflict, COVID-19 — intensify these challenges and why it's important to build long-term, inter-agency relationships to build informed, targeted social protection.