2. 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
Sustainable Cities
– Girls’ Equality First

3. 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.

4. 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

5. The Coalition for Adolescent Girls
coalitionforadolescentgirls.org

6. The Girl Declaration
girleffect.org

7. Current Council Research on Adolescent Girls

8. Council’s Programs for Adolescent Girls
Burkina Faso
Mères
Éducatrices
4000 girls
and
Filles
Eveillées
400 girls
Guatemala
Abriendo
Oportunidades
>5000 girls
Ghana
Smart Girls
89 girls
(pilot)
Zambia
Adolescent Girls
Empowerment
Program
12,000 girls
(planned)
Egypt
Ishraq
1800 girls
India
First Time Parents
1700 girls
and
Maharashtra Safe
Spaces
150 girls (pilot)
Ethiopia
Berhane Hewan
12,000 girls
(72,000 planned)
and
Biruh Tesfa
16,500 girls
(30,000 planned)
Bangladesh
Kishori Abhijan
15,000 girls
Kenya and
Uganda
Safe and
Smart Savings
2300 girls
South Africa
Siyakha
Nentsha
1100 girls and
boys

9. Investing before it is too late
Adelante de
la curva
Intensificar
esfuerzos
porcentaje
en la
escuela
unida o
casada
con hijos
edad
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.

10. GIRL POWER
THE WORLD BANK’S
ADOLESCENT GIRLS INITIATIVE

11. 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

12. Pilots in 8 low-income countries
including some of the most challenging
environments for girls

13. 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.

14. Learning from practice
Selecting and recruiting adolescent girls
How to make youth employment programs “girl
friendly”
Design Lessons
Life skills in the AGI
Business development skills in the AGI
Incentive schemes in the AGI for improving results
Working with girls in difficult settings
Implementation
Lessons
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

15. 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.

16. 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).

17. Abriendo Oportunidades:
a comprehensive peer education model
Strategies:
Objective
Strengthen adolescent girls
assets and increase their life
skills
• 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
•

18. Cascade leadership approach:
Mentors
(+10)
an effective strategy to learn and train
Youth
Leaders(+
100)
Participants
(+ 4,000)
Ages 8-12 and 13-17
Participate in weekly, 2 hour
sessions lead by Youth
Leaders
- 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 models
Interns
(+ 50)
-
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.

19. +
Repair the Social Contract: Public-private partnerships hand
in hand with girls to build preventative health, social, and
economic assets
secondary
school
development
committee
roads and
market
youth
center
playing
field
community
center
national
savings
Build assets that allow girls to make informed decisions
health
center

20. A Critical Mass to Address SRHR & Gender

21. Adolescent Pregnancy in Honduras
Of the 938,301 adolescent girls in Honduras aged 15 to
19, 24% have been pregnant at least once.
ENDESA 2005
22%
ENDESA 2011-2012
24%
Encuesta Nacional de Demografía y Salud ENDESA 2011-2012 - Honduras

22. Honduras has a youth population of 5,231,588
Youth Population
Older than 30
35%
Younger than 30
65%
INE. 2010.

23. % of adolescents pregnant or with
children, by department

24. Pregnancy rate by age, 2005-2007
Age
15
16
17
18
19
2005
5.4
11.7
23.5
31.6
40.2
2007
6.3
16.7
24.9
34.0
40.1
+O+
+
+
+
-
ENDESA 2005 VRS. 2011-2012

25. Relationship Between Educational Attainment
and Pregnancy
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
-
ENDESA 2005 VRS. 2011-2012

26. Adolescent Pregnancy by Residential Area
Residential Area
Urban
Rural
2005
17.7
26.0
2011-2012
19.2
29.3
+/+
+
ENDESA 2005 VRS. 2011-2012

27. AO communities:
past, current and
scale-up region
To date:
50 communities
5 departments
6 linguistic regions
Scale up:
• At least 75
communities in
Q’eqchi’ language
areas.
• Belize and Peten

28. The most vulnerable across the Central
American region
Rural, female, in
digenous, 0ut of
school
Common
challenges:
• Access to
secondary
education and
health
services
• Addressing
adolescent
pregancy
• Livelihoods

29. Regional gaps
• 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%

30. Where are we?

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

32. Regional gaps
• 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%