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Audience-tailored evidence for transforming adolescent lives

policy-maker or donor

programme designer or implementer

researcher

young person

How GAGE works

By combining quantitative and qualitative research exploring adolescents’ gendered experiences with longitudinal impact evaluations testing programme effectiveness, GAGE aims to explore what strategies are most effective in transforming adolescent girls’ and boys’ lives at specific junctures during the second decade of life.

Featured multimedia and news

06.07.2025 -multimedia

UNFFD: what are the implications of the new financing landscape for adolescent girls?

27.03.2025 -event

Feminist Network for Gender Transformative Education (FemNet4GTE) conference in Johannesburg, South Africa

05.12.2024 -event

Girl Allies Roundtable Webinar

20.10.2024 -event

The Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) Forum, Cape Town, South Africa

18.06.2024 -multimedia

A Day in the Life of Nora

24.04.2024 -multimedia

International Girls in ICT Day 2024: How do adolescent girls in Bangladesh use the internet to mobilise for social justice?

03.03.2024 -multimedia

Webinar discussing key findings from ‘Young People in the Global South: Voice, agency and citizenship’

18.10.2023 -multimedia

Amidst the ongoing humanitarian crisis, adolescents in Gaza must not be overlooked

03.09.2023 -multimedia

Women Deliver Conference 2023: What we’ve learned and what we’re doing about it

08.08.2023 -multimedia

How can young people hold leaders to account on climate action? | PODCAST Episode #2

24.05.2023 -multimedia

Child Marriage in Ethiopia

Featured publications

EthiopiaEducation and learning

Navigating Complex Transitions Through School and Work during Crises in Urban Ethiopia

publication

17.07.2025

Cross-countryBodily integrity and freedom from violence

Child marriage and its consequences for adolescent mental health in conflict-affected contexts: evidence from Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Jordan

publication

03.06.2025

Cross-countryPsychosocial well-being

Adolescence, Interrupted: A narrative review of the impact of Covid-19 on adolescent wellbeing

publication

16.02.2025

Lebanon

Turbulent trajectories: Experiences of young adults from refugee and host communities in Lebanon during crises

publication

16.02.2025

JordanVoice and agency

Formal and informal integration in contexts of displacement: Exploring implications for youth civic identities

publication

09.02.2025

Cross-countryEconomic empowerment

Does family planning improve female economic empowerment in Sub-Saharan Africa: conceptual framework and protocol for causal analysis across the life course

publication

17.12.2024