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Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE)

Hero image description: Adolescent girl, Ethiopia, 2015 Image credit:ODI/David Walker

Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) is a nine-year (2015-2024) mixed methods longitudinal research and evaluation study. It follows the lives of 18,000 adolescents in six low- and middle-income countries in Africa (Ethiopia and Rwanda), Asia (Bangladesh and Nepal) and the Middle East (Jordan and Lebanon).

GAGE is generating evidence on ‘what works’ to enable adolescent girls and boys to emerge from poverty and fast-track social change for young people, their families and communities. It aims to explore what strategies are most effective in transforming girls’ and boys’ lives at specific junctures in adolescence.

The GAGE consortium, managed by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), includes 35 partner organisations from around the world known for their expertise in research, policy and programming in the fields of adolescence, gender and social inclusion. GAGE is funded by UK aid from the UK government.

Visit the GAGE website for further information. 

Staff

Caroline Harper, Caroline Spencer, Fiona Samuels, Muriel Kahane, Maria Stavropoulou

Supported by

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  2. ‘The School Was Closed, So When They Brought Me A Husband I Couldn’t Say No’: Exploring the Gendered Experiences of Child Marriage Amongst Adolescent Girls and Boys in Ethiopia

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  3. Intersecting barriers to adolescents’ educational access during COVID-19: Exploring the role of gender, disability and poverty

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  4. Improving menstrual health literacy through life-skills programming in rural Ethiopia

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  5. Agency and empowerment for adolescent girls: an intentional approach to policy and programming

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  6. Participatory research with adolescents and youth in the Middle East: a toolkit to explore how crises shape young people’s well-being

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  7. Crisis within crisis: the psychosocial toll of Lebanon’s economic and political turmoil on Syrian refugee adolescents

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  8. Disrupted educational pathways: the effects of conflict on adolescent educational access and learning in war-torn Ethiopia

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  9. Adolescent girls’ and boys’ experiences of violence: evidence from Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE)

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  10. Adolescents in the abyss of Lebanon’s worst economic crisis: a focus on Lebanese and Palestinian adolescents’ education, and voice and agency

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  11. Sexual and reproductive health and rights in the era of COVID-19: a qualitative study of the experiences of vulnerable urban youth in Ethiopia

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  12. UNICEF Jordan’s Makani programme: supporting students, building resilience

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  13. Exploring the patterning and drivers of FGM/C and child marriage in pastoralist Ethiopia: Baseline report from Afar and Somali regions

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  14. Fast-tracking progress towards eliminating FGM/C and child marriage in pastoralist Ethiopia: priorities for policy and programming

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  15. ‘When I play football with my friends … there is no time that I feel sad’: an exploration of adolescents’ friendship networks in Ethiopia

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  16. Supporting adolescent mental health in humanitarian settings: To what extent do interventions consider climate change and its intersectional impacts?

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  17. Making the “Unthinkable” Thinkable: Fostering Sustainable Development for Youth in Ethiopia’s Lowlands

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  18. Climate Risks and Truncated Opportunities: How Do Environmental Challenges Intersect with Economic and Social Disadvantages for Rohingya Adolescents in Bangladesh?

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