Adolescent Girls Policy Guidance

Adolescent Girls Are Vulnerable to Violence and Sometimes Left Out of Policy Frameworks.

Our policy briefs detail recommendations and solutions to prevent and end this specific type of violence.

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Violence Against Adolescent Girls

Violence Against Adolescent Girls: Falling Through the Cracks?

This paper analyzes how and why current frameworks and evidence from the fields of violence against women and violence against children fail to address the specific conditions of violence against adolescent girls, who are at the nexus of violence against women and violence against children.

These include adolescent girls’ specific vulnerabilities to violence, health outcomes, the lack of policies targeting adolescent girls and the limited response services for this population.

Violence Against Adolescent Girls: Trends and Lessons for East Africa

This policy brief is based on evidence we collected with partners as part of the What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls program in South Sudan. Findings show that adolescent girls experience high levels of violence, and that exposure to armed conflict is a major driver of multiple forms of male-perpetrated violence against adolescent girls.

We make several policy recommendations based on this finding:

• Humanitarian response programming should prioritize adolescent girls’ needs, including lowering and addressing barriers to their access to specialized gender-based violence services.
• Funding should prioritize programming that includes targeted prevention and response interventions for violence against adolescent girls.

School-Based Interventions to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls

This evidence brief provides a concise overview of select school-based interventions that aim to prevent violence against women and girls or improve knowledge and attitudes that perpetuate this violence. The brief:

• Discusses effective (Stop Violence Against Girls in Schools [SVAGS]), promising (Combating School-Related GBV [C-Change]), and emerging or new interventions in the field
• Reviews school-based interventions as well as community-based interventions that include a school-based component, such as SASA!, Stepping Stones and Soul City
• Analyzes the field and provides recommendations for addressing the gaps that remain

Want to learn more about policy change to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls?

• Conflict and Crisis Settings: Policy considerations to support women and girls who are at risk of violence in conflict and crisis settings
• Immigration and Migration: Policy considerations for immigration reforms that prevent and respond to violence against women and girls

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