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Launch of Adolescence, Youth & Gender conference
Launch of Adolescence, Youth & Gender conference

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Shaping Aspirations and Outcomes: Gender and Adolescence in Young Lives

This report explores how children’s lives change during adolescence and the difference that gender inequalities and gender norms make to their pathways.

It asks three questions:

What difference does gender make to adolescents’ aspirations and outcomes? How and when do gender inequalities emerge and in which areas of adolescents’ lives? Are there windows of opportunity or particular kinds of investment that are likely to support girls and boys to reach their full potential?

Our findings include:

Shaping Aspirations and Outcomes: Gender and Adolescence in Young Lives

This report explores how children’s lives change during adolescence and the difference that gender inequalities and gender norms make to their pathways.

It asks three questions:

What difference does gender make to adolescents’ aspirations and outcomes? How and when do gender inequalities emerge and in which areas of adolescents’ lives? Are there windows of opportunity or particular kinds of investment that are likely to support girls and boys to reach their full potential?

Our findings include:

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From rural Uganda to urban Kinshasa: involving the community in youth program adaptation
From rural Uganda to urban Kinshasa: involving the community in youth program adaptation
Guest blog: Gender socialization during adolescence
Guest blog: Gender socialization during adolescence
Guest blog: building the ‘assets’ girls and boys need to navigate puberty
Guest blog: building the ‘assets’ girls and boys need to navigate puberty

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Towards a Better Future? Hopes and Fears from Young Lives

Young Lives has been following 12,000 children in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam since 2002. This is the third book about the lives of 24 of those children. We have watched them as they started primary and then secondary school, and we have seen many of them grow into young adults. They have shared their hopes and their fears with us, their ideas about themselves, their families and their communities.

Towards a Better Future? Hopes and Fears from Young Lives

Young Lives has been following 12,000 children in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam since 2002. This is the third book about the lives of 24 of those children. We have watched them as they started primary and then secondary school, and we have seen many of them grow into young adults. They have shared their hopes and their fears with us, their ideas about themselves, their families and their communities.

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Guest blog: Mobilizing community leaders to promote gender equity among adolescents
Guest blog: Mobilizing community leaders to promote gender equity among adolescents
Guest blog: “Things that make us worried” - supporting youth means supporting parents too
Guest blog: “Things that make us worried” - supporting youth means supporting parents too
Back to School: the next round of Young Lives school surveys
Back to School: the next round of Young Lives school surveys
Engaging Adolescents, Parents, and Community to Change Inequitable Gender Norms in Rural Nepal
Engaging Adolescents, Parents, and Community to Change Inequitable Gender Norms in Rural Nepal
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