Related Resources

These links include websites of governmental and non-governmental organizations, as well as related projects and useful resources.  Please also look at our collection of CGD publications for further information on gender inequality in the developing world.

Publications

• Because I Am a Girl (Plan International)
  
• Uncharted Passage (Population Council)
  
• Engendering Development (World Bank)
  
• Keeping the Promise (ICRW)
  
• Growing Up Global: Transitions to Adulthood (Cynthia Lloyd, ed.)
  
• The Diverse Universe of Adolescents, and the Girls and Boys Left Behind: A Note on Research, Program and Policy Priorities (UN Millennium Project)
  
  

Blogs

• Davos Delivers for Girls (Info for Health)
  
  
• Girls Count (UNDP-USA)
  
  
• Ignoring Girls' Welfare Carries High Price (End Poverty 2015)
  
  
• Are girls still marginalized? Discrimination and Gender Inequality in Today’s Society! (Foreign Policy Association)
• Gender and Macroeconomics (Poverty and Growth)
  
  

Upcoming & Past Events

• UN Commission on the Status of Women, 52nd Session (NYC)
  
  
• Initiative for Global Development (IGD) Speaker Series (featuring Mary Robinson)
  
  
• 22nd Annual Girls and Women in Sports Day
  
  
• International Women's Day (UN Commemoration)
  
  
• Women, Faith, and Development Summit
  
  
• Global Gender Justice Symposium
  
  
• Global Campaign for Education Action Week: Back to School (Quality Education for All to End Exclusion)
  
  
• Investing in Young People’s Health and Development Conference
  
  
• Gender and Generations Conference (UN Economic Commission for Europe)
  
  
• 2008 PEPFAR Implementers' Meeting
  
  
• XVII International AIDS Conference
  
  
• CGI Annual Meeting
  
  
• World Day for the Prevention of Child Abuse
  
  
• Human Rights Day
  
  

Organizations

The Nike Foundation

The UN Foundation

The Coalition for Adolescent Girls

International Center for Research on Women

The Population Council

International Women’s Health Coalition

United Nations Population Fund

Camfed

Projects

The Girl Effect: The Clock is Ticking (YouTube)

Nike Foundation’s 10 Actions Plan to address the needs of adolescent girls

Maria Eitel responds to the Davos Question (YouTube)

I Dare You (YouTube)

Tamanna and Her Friends Tell It Like It Is (You Tube)

Cindy: The Promise of Africa’s Future (YouTube)

Maplecroft’s 2008 interactive map indicator on conflict and sexual violence risk