JAH has launched a special research supplement and advocacy summary designed to guide activists, practitioners, and researchers to reframe child marriage, reconsider what it will take to end this harmful practice, and reinforce girls’ and boys’ rights globally. The research supplement highlights how child, early, and forced marriage is happening in different ways around the world. The advocacy summary highlights key themes; how these factors shape girls’ experiences within marriage; and how to address the root cause of child marriage: patriarchal control of girls’ sexuality. Read More
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Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence: Making All Spaces Safe
As the world continues to evolve and expand in the use of technology and platforms, so too does the expansion of spaces through which violence can be perpetrated. This paper serves as an alarm bell for the international community, digital and feminist movements, private technology companies, and national governments to act in unison to end the rising scourge of technology-facilitated gender-based violence. Read More
Gender, Youth, and Social Inclusion Analysis Document Review
This report presents the methodology, findings, and identified gaps and opportunities from an analysis and document review on access to and use of MCHN services by marginalized and underserved populations in Uganda. This document review aimed to identify opportunities and gaps in national MCHN policies, guidelines, implementation, and measurement for issues related to gender, youth development, and social inclusion. Read More
Gender-Inclusive Legislative Framework and Laws to Strengthen Women’s Resilience to Climate Change and Disasters
Laws and policies are essential foundations to building equality, prohibiting discrimination, and empowering women to participate in disaster risk management (DRM) and action on climate change. DRM and climate change laws are part of a national framework of laws that need to work together to support women’s resilience. This report develops and applies a National Good Practice Legislative Framework as an analytical tool to present a range of different constitutional and national laws that support women’s resilience to climate change and disaster risk.Read More
Adolescent Girls and COVID-19: Mapping the Evidence on Interventions
There are substantial evidence gaps on programming to address risk across outcomes of importance to adolescent girls. This report aims to advance four goals related to this topic: reducing girls’ risks of contracting COVID-19; identifying longer-term developmental intervention approaches that hold promise in the recovery period; mitigating the secondary effects of COVID-19 on girls; and identifying priority evidence gaps. Read More
Understanding and Addressing Gender-Based Violence as Part of the Climate Emergency
This expert paper provides an overview of how climate change is exacerbating different types of gender-based violence (GBV). The paper also presents two recommendations to the Commission on the Status of Women community on how to respond to the climate change and GBV crisis: 1) leverage existing international policy frameworks and 2) support cross-sectoral partnerships. Read More
